Excerpt from Grandma's Piano Cait Caffrey 1Declan was going to spend the week at his grandmother's house. He sighed at the thought of it. He loved his grandmother, but he was sometimes very bored at her house. Her house was in the country and there were no other kids nearby to play with. Grandma didn't have a television, so Declan couldn't play video games. 2Grandma gave him a big hug when he arrived. "Hey, kiddo!" she said. "We're going to have some fun this week, aren't we?" 3Declan pretended to be excited and gave her a happy nod. He put his bag in the spare room and, with nothing else to do, he decided to explore the house. In paragraph 3. why does Declan pretend to be excited? es )) He loves spending the week at his Grandmother's house in the country B) He wants his grandmother to think he is happy to be there for the week He wants his grandmother to buy a television so he can play video games D) He wants his grandmother to let hizi invite his friends over so he won't be bored Literary Comprehension​

Need ! of all the characters highlighted in the works included in this unit, which one did you relate to or identify with the most in terms of his or her struggles and conflicts? why? what was it about this character that made him or her affect you as he or she did? be sure to point to specific examples from the work to support your response. the characters are from "shooting an elephant", " witchcraft for sale" and marriage is a private affair.

Read the excerpt from the land. in the late afternoon i did the same, but all the time i was on the stallion, i was aware that mitchell was watching me. he had appeared on the edge of the woods and had just stood there watching ghost wind and me as we went round and round the meadow. finally, on one of our turns past him, he said: "s'pose you thinkin' you a real somebody 'cause you can ride that stallion." i looked down at mitchell and stopped, knowing that despite our understanding, he was itching for a fight with me. now, i don't know what possessed me in that moment to say the next thing i did. maybe i was feeling guilty that because i was my daddy's son, i could ride ghost wind. maybe it was that, but it wasn't out of fear i said what i said. i no longer was afraid of mitchell. "you want to ride him? " i asked. mitchell took a step backward. it was obvious he hadn't expected me to say that. "you know i can't ride him," he said. "your white daddy'd kill me." "you want to ride him? " i asked again. mitchell looked at the stallion, then at me. "so, what if i do? " what intrinsic motivation does the author most likely intend the reader to infer from the passage? paul is motivated by his need to have mitchell praise his riding skills. mitchell is motivated by his need to have paul praise his riding skills. paul is motivated by jealousy and wishes he had free time like mitchell. mitchell is motivated by jealousy and wishes he could ride the horse.

Who dies in a duel because of his pride and his anger