Write a five-minute oral presentation about The Call of The Wild, writing for an audience of your peers. What did you find most fascinating or interesting about the story, and what did you think were its most important points? Include one visual element to support your ideas; this may be a short slideshow. Then, make small changes to your speech to adapt it to be presented to a formal audience. Enter both versions of your speech (informal and formal) in the space below, and include your selected visual element. If possible, present your speech to an audience to receive feedback.

The theme of a story can best be determined through which of the following? a. the story’s plot b. the book cover c. the authors name d. the reading level

The writings of james baldwin and zora neale hurston express different perspectives on black culture in america because the two writers originate from different cultures hurston writes about women, while baldwin writes about men the two writers have contradictory opinions about racism in america hurston encourages positivity, while baldwin explores painful topics

Which line in this excerpt from the great gatsby by f. scott fitzgerald contains a simile? about half way between west egg and new york the motor-road hastily joins the railroad and runs beside it for a quarter of a mile, so as to shrink away from a certain desolate area of land. this is a valley of ashes—a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke and finally, with a transcendent effort, of men who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air. occasionally a line of grey cars crawls along an invisible track, gives out a ghastly creak and comes to rest, and immediately the ash-grey men swarm up with leaden spades and stir up an impenetrable cloud which screens their obscure operations from your sight.