Remember that an inference is information given in a story that is not directly stated by the author, but it is still very important in order to understand a story. Place a checkmark next to each inference the reader needed to make in order to understand "The Cask of Amontillado": 1)Montresor and Fortunato are wearing costumes because it is carnival time. 2)One reason Montresor is wearing a costume is to be sure no one recognizes him when he is walking back to his house with Fortunato. 3)Fortunato was a competitive person because he got jealous when he thought Luchesi was going to taste the Amontillado. 4)Montresor leads Fortunato down into the catacombs where many people were buried. 5)Montresor and Fortunato were down in the catacombs until midnight. 6)Montresor was upset because Fortunato had seriously offended him and wanted revenge. 7)No one ever found Fortunato, who Montresor buried alive down in the catacombs. 8)Montresor kept giving Fortunato wine because he knew he could not resist it and wanted Fortunato to keep following him Which ones need checkmarks?

Tom’s testimony has the effect of making scout feel sympathetic towards both tom and mayella. explain why she is sympathetic towards each of them.

Read the excerpt from "mother tongue." those tests were constructed around items like fill-in-the-blank sentence completion, such as “even though tom was mary thought he was ” and the correct answer always seemed to be the most bland combinations of thoughts, for example, “even though tom was foolish, mary thought he was ridiculous.” well, according to my mother, there were very few limitations as to what tom could have been and what mary might have thought of him. so i never did well on tests like that. how does tan build a central idea of her story in the excerpt? tan discusses the types of questions on achievement tests to support the idea that the tests limit students’ ability to write well. tan explains a question on a language achievement test to support the idea that the tests should include more interesting content. tan gives an example of her experience with achievement tests to support the idea that they are not always accurate measures of language ability. tan considers how her mother might answer a question on a test to support the idea that nonstandard english limits a person’s ability to communicate.

What details from a story best develop the theme? readers' prior knowledge the author's motivations for writing descriptions of time and place character motivation and plot