Consider the text from "Machu Picchu: A City in the Sky” and its central idea. Informational Text:

Every year, thousands of tourists come to Peru to see Machu Picchu. To reach Machu Picchu, tourists can hike along the famous Inca Trail. The trail covers twenty-six miles. It winds through beautiful mountains, forests, and jungle. Visitors can also take a bus or train ride up to the ruins. The train takes you past miles of farmland along the Urubamba River Valley. Above are the Andes Mountains. The tops of the mountains are often covered with mist. Then, the train goes up a mountain on a winding road. The road climbs almost 1,640 feet. Other Incan ruins can be seen beside the road. Most are very small compared to the city ahead.

Central Idea:

Tourists enjoy visiting Machu Picchu in the mountains of Peru.

What supporting detail is most important to include in a summary of this text?

a)People can hike the Inca Trail or take a train or bus to reach Machu Picchu.
b)When people travel to Machu Picchu, they see miles of surrounding farms.
C)People are surprised by the mist on the peaks of the Andes Mountains.
d)When people visit Machu Picchu, they sometimes see other smaller ruins.

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assignment

analyzing characters

respond to the following questions in one paragraph for each. use specific examples from the text to support your responses.

1. there is a set of twins on the island named sam and eric. however, when describing them, golding regularly refers to them as samneric. how does this way of describing the twins relate to their behavior and the way that readers understand their characters? what examples of their behavior readers see that samneric is really the appropriate way to refer to them?

2. as the boys set out to search for the beast, ralph allows jack to lead the way, and he sinks to the back of the pack, " to have escaped responsibility for a time." what does this moment lead you to infer about ralph and about his feelings about being the group’s leader? what does this moment foreshadow?

3. while part of the party searching for the beast, simon realizes that the notion of the beast that the other boys have does not make sense. a beast sitting atop a mountain with claws, a beast who did not leave tracks, could have easily caught the twins. simon has a different picture of the beast: "there rose before his inward sight the picture of a human at once heroic and sick." how does this picture relate to the beast that samneric saw? how does it relate to what simon said earlier about the beast being "only us"?

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