n this activity, you will read an essay about Edgar Allan Poe's story "The Black Cat" and look for weaknesses in the writing. You will describe how the writer should revise the work, and you will edit the essay for errors in capitalization, spelling, and punctuation. This activity will help you revise and edit the assignments that you write in other lessons. The following pages and your writing guide will help you. Be sure to fill on all the questions in your writing guide; by doing this, you'll have a draft of your assignment by the end of this activity. volume_up This writing assignment will focus on the following skills: Organizing an essay Using evidence in an essay Correcting errors in capitalization, spelling, and punctuation volume_up

Read the passage first of all if someone says your dream is impossible, they’re wrong. you can’t prove that something is impossible-all you know is that[it] hasn’t been done yet. people said no one could scale mount everest but in 1953, sir edmund hilary and tenzing norway gazed down upon the world from it’s summit. people said that man could not fly, but in 1903, orville and wilbur wright made the first sustained powered flight in a heavier-than-air machine. people said, “okay, we admit that someone could climb mount everest, and we admit that man has learned to fly, but no one will ever, ever walk on the face of the moon.” if we can send three men a quarter of a million miles away and bring them home safely, is there any great task we cannot accomplish? which identifies the textual evidence that best supports the claim: the authors purpose is to persuade? a: the author shares historical information about the wright brothers. b: the author states that men have walked the moon. c: the author states that others who think your dreams are impossible are wrong. d: the author wants to know what tasks we cannot accomplish.