Read the excerpt from "stray" by cynthia rylant. "you'd better feed that mutt before it dies of starvation," mr. lacey said. which statement describes how this excerpt affects the plot?

Write 3 sentences about an animal of your choice

The greatest gift the sumerians gave the world was the invention of writing. the sumerians were a 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.

Experiments were conducted to try to teach chimpanzees sign language