That Could Have Been You
Jim Heynen
The boys knew that on the farm danger was everywhere, sometimes the teeth of a spinning gear, other
times in the jaws of a growling boar. Danger could plunge from the sky in jag ed-edged hailstones or collapse
beneath them in weak timbers over a well. Hay balers didn't care what they b aled, and silage choppers didn't care
what they chopped. But mostly the danger the boys knew was in stories about what happened somewhere,
someplace, just out of sight, the next county, down the road six miles, somewhere else. The bull that crushed a man
against a gate. The woman who drowned trying to save her child from rushing spring floods. The man who broke his
neck falling from the haymow. The tornado that killed a whole family except the two-month-old baby who was
found in a lilac bush without a scratch on her.
The boys listened to the stories, and they didn't argue with the truth of them. They'd had their own fair
share of close calls. There was the eighty-pound hay bale that fell thirty feet and exploded in a green spray around
them, and the lightning that splintered a huge box elder tree right after they decided to run out from under that
very tree and play in the rain. Once a steel splinter from the corn sheller flywheel whirred like a table saw past their
heads. And they had their cuts and bruises. Knuckles that looked as if they'd been gnawed on by meat grinders.
Sprained ankles and wrists. Blood blisters that took toenails and fingernails off as they healed. Small concussions
that were good for week-long headaches. Wood slivers of all sizes that had punctured every part of their bodies.
And that's not even counting all the skinned knees and nosebleeds. The boys had plenty of bangings-around, but
nothing so bad that they weren't able to talk about it, maybe even boast about it, the next week.
In town on Saturday nights, the grown-ups would point out what terrible things had happened to other
people.
See those farmers with all those missing fingers? Cornpickers did that.
What is the summary

Answer:

The summary of the story is that the boys knew about the risks of working, playing, and hanging out on the farm. They had had their own fair share of close calls and minor accidents, such as sprained ankles, bruised knuckles and minor concussions, but all of that doesn't deter them from continuously playing maintaining regular visits to the same location.

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A.)organizing your thoughts in a logical order
B.)a solid claim statement that needs no revisions
C.)grammar, spelling, and punctuation
D.)a final draft that can be turned in

What character trait best
describes Percy Jackson?

They begin beating it with a hose to find out what it really means. How does the figurative language in this excerpt reveal Collins's message? It criticizes the way some readers try to understand a poem. It criticizes the violent themes found in modern poetry. It suggests that the study of poetry requires physical strength. It suggests that every poem has a simple meaning.

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Drag the tiles to the correct boxes to complete the pairs.
Mach each type of character to its description.
antagonist
secondary character
protagonist
the central character who has to overcome the main conflict in the story
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the character who opposes the lead character and is the main source of conflict
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the character with ordinary qualities providing support to important characters
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Directions: Highlight the correct answer
We may not like snakes, if they were mysteriously wiped out of existence, however, we would be virtually overrun with other vermin that would spread disease and filth.

a. NO CHANGE
b. snakes; but if they
c. snakes if they
d. snakes; if they

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How does Mary's careful planning influence the outcome of the story?

Which of the following options best describes the author's purpose in
writing the excerpt?
O
A.
to provide an informative overview of Honolulu's plant life
B. to persuade residents of large cities to consider planting
more trees and flowers
C. to illustrate how different Honolulu is from cities the reader
may be more familiar with
D.
to reflect on the way that large cities like Honolulu destroy
any natural beauty a place may have once had

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The underlined words:the,weather,threatening,hurry

which literary device is being used: where thr blue-green ocean met the sandy-white southern shore.

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Some believe that, although good for a distraction, too much time spent browsing favorite websites or updating social networking
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society anything of value or is just a worthless distraction.

So is it I who is Fear or is Fear I?

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1. Which sentence best describes the section Transforming America?
5 points
A. It lists the events of the Industrial Revolution.
B. It provides information about the amount of coal found in the U.S.
C. It helps readers understand why many children worked in coal mines in 1911,
D. It describes how coal changed people's lives.

Which excerpt from the selection best illustrates how point of view contributes to
the development of the theme of the importance of hindsight?
A)His name had reached Spain, and the king felt his authority threatened.
B)Why rant over the impaling of theIndians when Spaniards-
noblemen among them have
suffered the same fate in the name of God?
C)What stupidity made him send the governor, Martín Fernández de
Enciso, back to Spain?
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I need a narrative paragraph about a place I visited last years!!! Please help

Interpret What does the author's grandma mean in lines 8-9 when she
says, "Hold it, let me leave the room, lightning's going to strike"? (the story is "scary tales" by "jakie Torrence"

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____She flitted here and there, lighting on a petal, and then bouncing up as though it wasa trampoline-and then falling, falling, until
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Word Bank:
Empathetic Apathetic Humble Judgmental Indignant Whimsical Urgent Inspirational Whimsical

How do the underlined sentences on pages 1-2
advance the author's point of view?
They show that people who have little regard for
the environment are willing to spend money on
high-quality bottled water.
They support the idea that people should be
concerned about the effects of bottled-water
production on the environment.
They support the idea that people drink bottled
water based on quality concerns rather than on
cost or environmental concerns.
They show that people who do not have access to
safe water must pay for bottled water, at great cost
to the environment.

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his road of trials
his supreme ordeal
his transformation
his return home

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