use lines 1-8 of the king arthur’s knights excerpt to decide what type of constructed response the following question requires.
what was the real reason king mark wanted to make la belle his bride?
open excerpt
knowledge or comprehension – right there question
evaluation – on my own question
analysis or synthesis – author and me question
application – think and search question

The greatest gift the sumerians gave the world was the invention of writing. the sumerians were wealthy people. they needed some way to keep track of what they owned. they began drawing pictures. they used a reed as a pen. they drew on soft pieces of clay. the soft clay was then dried in the sun. the tablet became a permanent record. later, the sumerian drawings changed into wedge-shaped symbols. this kind of writing is called cuneiform. by putting symbols together, the sumerians could write entire sentences.