Food is valuable in elizabethan england, far more so than in the modern world. a flock of 180 sheep is worth more than the average detached house. the difficulties of transportation mean that the food supply depends heavily on what grows locally and how much surplus is available. it also depends on the season. harvest is obviously a time of much grain and fruit. animals are traditionally slaughtered on martinmas (november 11) if the owner cannot afford to feed them through the winter. even the availability of fresh fish depends on the season. there is no use in trying to buy fresh turbot in december if you are more than twenty miles from the coast: only in summer is sea fish carried to markets that far inland. –the time traveler's guide to elizabethan england, ian mortimer what is the topic of the paragraph? housing in elizabethan england transportation in elizabethan england the food supply in elizabethan england

Read the excerpt from the land. in the late afternoon i did the same, but all the time i was on the stallion, i was aware that mitchell was watching me. he had appeared on the edge of the woods and had just stood there watching ghost wind and me as we went round and round the meadow. finally, on one of our turns past him, he said: "s'pose you thinkin' you a real somebody 'cause you can ride that stallion." i looked down at mitchell and stopped, knowing that despite our understanding, he was itching for a fight with me. now, i don't know what possessed me in that moment to say the next thing i did. maybe i was feeling guilty that because i was my daddy's son, i could ride ghost wind. maybe it was that, but it wasn't out of fear i said what i said. i no longer was afraid of mitchell. "you want to ride him? " i asked. mitchell took a step backward. it was obvious he hadn't expected me to say that. "you know i can't ride him," he said. "your white daddy'd kill me." "you want to ride him? " i asked again. mitchell looked at the stallion, then at me. "so, what if i do? " what intrinsic motivation does the author most likely intend the reader to infer from the passage? paul is motivated by his need to have mitchell praise his riding skills. mitchell is motivated by his need to have paul praise his riding skills. paul is motivated by jealousy and wishes he had free time like mitchell. mitchell is motivated by jealousy and wishes he could ride the horse.

Imagination. experience. determination. trustworthiness.

Re-read paragraph seven and eight. what influence the arm standoff between two rival native american tribes in wounded knee, south dakota