Jayden was sure that his brother and sister would want to continue the tradition when they turned 13. Nora does not like the last sentence (sentence 31). How can she rewrite the sentence to have a better ending to the story?

a. Jayden was excited that his brother and sister would get to enjoy the same gift when they turned 13 and they would like it.

b. Jayden was very excited to have his brother and sister do the same when they turned 13, but hoped they would like it.

c. Jayden couldn’t wait to see the excitement on his brother and sister’s face when they got to experience the same gift someday.

d. Jayden was ready to go with his brother and sister when they turned 13 and he was excited!

Which detail is an example of internal conflict in “the monkeys paw”?

Match the definition to the word for a better understanding of the paragraph. 1 money does not buy happiness or security. 2john ringling, one of the five brothers of the ringling brothers circus, started out in 1884 with a trained horse and a performing bear. 3for over forty years, he worked hard at the family enterprise, bought up smaller circuses, and imported new acts. 4in the 1920s, he was rated as one of the world's wealthiest men and owned every sizable circus in the country. 5over 5,000 people were on his payroll, and over 240 railroad cars were in his retinue each time the circus moved. 6at the time of his death, however, he was a nervous, unhappy man; he was also bankrupt and beset by lawsuits. 7his carefully built circus empire passed into alien hands. 8all those years of work had turned to dust. 1. business organization alien 2. group beset 3. without funds to pay debts retinue 4. troubled or harassed enterprise 5. strange; belonging to another person, place, country, or thing bankrupt

Which of the following events of the story actual occurs first in the sequence of events