In this activity, you'll help other students understand the purpose and language of the Declaration of Independence. You'll write an introduction to the text to help them prepare for their reading, and then you'll write 6 to 12 annotations — explanatory notes on the text — to help readers understand unfamiliar words, rhetoric, deductive reasoning, and syntax in the document.

2read this passage from "the raven." what is puzzling the speaker in this stanza? 60% but the raven still beguiling my sad fancy into smiling, straight i wheeled a cushioned seat in front of bird, and bust and door then, upon the velvet sinking, i betook myself to linking fancy unto fancy, thinking what this ominous bird of yore- what this grim, ungainly, ghastly, gaunt and ominous bird of yore meant in croaking "nevermore." s and what the raven's message is why the raven came to visit where the raven came from how the raven got into his room

What else do you think experts can learn from studying the language of written work? what do you think is the value of studying the language of william shakespeare whose writing is over hundreds of years old?

How does the author of finding flight incorporate ideas from the poem hope is the only thing with feathers into her work