Analyzing Thesis Development in Informational Text This activity will help you meet this educational goal:
You will analyze how an author introduces and develops a thesis.
Directions
Read the instructions for this self-checked activity Type your response to each question and check your answers. At the end of
the activity, write a brief evaluation of your work.
Activity
In this activity, you will plan and write a paragraph that analyzes how the author of "A Treasure-House for Lovers of Words"
introduces and develops his thesis.
Part A
Complete the left side of the chart with the author's thesis statement on the right side, describe examples and evidence
that the author uses to develop the thesis. Good readers reread the text to find accurate information
B
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Font Sizes
AA. EEE 3
Author's thesis
Text Evidence
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What point is the author trying to make by comparing the travel times of the first transcontinental railroad and the first transcontinental flight?

[1] nothing that comes from the desert expresses its extremes better than the unhappy growth of the tree yuccas. tormented, thin forests of it stalk drearily in the high mesas, particularly in that triangular slip that fans out eastward from the meeting of the sierras and coastwise hills. the yucca bristles with bayonet-pointed leaves, dull green, growing shaggy with age like an old [5] man's tangled gray beard, tipped with panicles of foul, greenish blooms. after its death, which is slow, the ghostly hollow network of its woody skeleton, with hardly power to rot, makes even the moonlight fearful. but it isn't always this way. before the yucca has come to flower, while yet its bloom is a luxurious, creamy, cone-shaped bud of the size of a small cabbage, full of sugary sap. the indians twist it deftly out of its fence of daggers and roast the prize for their [10] own delectation why does the author use the words "bayonet-pointed" (line 4) and "fence of daggers" (line 9) to describe the leaves of the yucca tree? . to create an image of the sharp edges of the plant to emphasize how beautiful the plant's leaves are to explain when and where the plant grows to show how afraid the author is of the plant

Ineed asap plzzz why is the mountain goat known as the poor man's cow? a. it is a cheap source of food. b. it is smaller than a cow. c. it looks like a cow.