Assignment
What is Important?
Use evidence from the text to support each response. Complete at least one full paragraph for each question.
1. Select one of the stories or poems in this unit and identify the author's purpose for writing. Then, identify the theme of that same story or poem. What is the difference between the theme and the author's purpose? Are they the same, or are they different?
I’m using Raymond’s run.
2. What views about what's important do most of the stories and poems in this unit share? How do the selections differ in their views of what's important?

3. Name two pieces that share a theme and explain how each story develops this theme.


the story is raymonds run

How does brian feel about working with stacey on the story? use evidence from the text to support your answer.

Read the passage. tomorrow, senator connie sullivan will meet with us farmers to discuss a new trade deal. she will also discuss the state of iowa’s economy and the crucial need to modernize nafta. according to the us chamber of commerce, approximately 14 million jobs depend on trade with mexico. at a delegate meeting last wednesday, sullivan said, "this is a number much too large to ignore.” which sentence corrects the error in capitalization? tomorrow, senator connie sullivan will meet with us farmers to discuss a new trade deal. she will also discuss the state of iowa’s economy and the crucial need to modernize nafta. according to the us chamber of commerce, approximately 14 million jobs depend on trade with mexico. at a delegate meeting last wednesday, sullivan said, “this is a number much too large to ignore.”

What phrase from "speech after being convicted of voting" most engages the audience's sense of pathos, or their emotions?