Match the information from the autobiography excerpts to its author. Column A

1 Shares about his own childhood through the guise of describing the life of an anonymous slave child

2 "History is full of the errors of states and princes.

3"The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion."

4 Joined other statesmen to represent the Colonies in a conference with the Iriquois Indian

5 tribes. Uses a formal writing style with officious language

6. Begins the narrative with a personal story about his childhood

7. Uses a compare/contrast strategy to explain the differences between a young slave's life and
that of the slaveholder's children

8"Children have their sorrows as much as men and women, and it would be well to remember this in our dealings with them."

Column B

a. Benjamin Franklin

b. Frederick Douglass

Which statements describe the creek who migrated to florida in the 1700s? select all that apply. they kept the creek name and identity. they became known as the seminole. they established more than thirty towns in florida. they became isolated from the creeks in the north. they took control of a number of white settlements.

Which method of characterization does the author use to the reader get to know mrs. allison? actions appearance dialogue thoughts

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.