Practice writing a five-sentence paragraph by using the instructions below. You can use this format when you compose your paragraphs for your research
report. Remember: A paragraph can contain many different number of sentences,
but at this point in your writing career, five sentences is a good structure to use.
It will contain one topic sentence, three detail sentences, and one closing
sentence.
TAS
1. Write a topic sentence about a subject or hobby you know well.
2. List three facts that support or explain your topic sentence.
3. Write three sentences using the facts in number 2. If you need to,
change the order of your facts.
4. Write a sentence that sums up the importance of the sentences you
just wrote. It should answer the question "so what?"

Write a two-paragraph objective summary of ted chiang's "exhalation." your summary should identify two themes of the story and explore how they interact. use figurative language such as an analogy to the reader understand the themes.

Read the excerpt below from the poem "exile" by julia alvarez and answer the question that follows. i let myself lie back in deep waters, my arms out like jesus' on his cross, and instead of sinking down like i'd always done, magically, that night, i could stay up, floating out past the driveway, past the gates, in the black ford, papi grim at the wheel, winding through the back roads, stroke by difficult stroke, out on the highway, heading toward the coast. which literary device is used in the comparison between the speaker's experience of fleeing the country and floating in the ocean? i let myself lie back in deep waters, my arms out like jesus' on his cross, and instead of sinking down like i'd always done, magically, that night, i could stay up, extended metaphor symbolism simile theme

Wha is the best example of a storys historical context? a. the way the plot is eventually resolved b. the genre that the story belongs to c. the theme that the story explores d. the cultural beliefs of the characters