1. definition of context clues and how they your overall reading skills. 2. definition of connotation and how it your reading skills. 3. three difficult words from william's story that you figured out the meanings of with context clues and include the exact context clue words from the passage that you know what they mean. 4. five words with positive connotations from the story and why they are positive to you.

1. Context clues are words or phrases that help signal the meaning of a word that you do not know. Context clues are useful to me since they help me find the definition of unknown words easily without having to find a dictionary.

2.Connotation is when a part of a text, or even a single word, implies (makes something understood without expressing it directly) a value or meaning beyond the literal.These connotations indirectly give us impressions about characters or objects. Connotations allow the reader to come up with their own impressions through personal context. Connotations can reveal aspects of the composer and the composer's context.

3 and 4 you have to answer on your own lad

b is the answer.   i sat on the lumpy sofa, totally exhausted, with a bad taste in my mouth, wondering what i should do next.  

may i see the historical information and the excerpt?