Read the excerpt from “The Monkey's Paw.” Without, the night was cold and wet, but in the small parlour of Laburnam Villa the bl
inds were drawn and the fire burned brightly. Father and son were at chess, the former, who possessed ideas about the game involving radical changes, putting his king into such sharp and unnecessary perils that it even provoked comment from the white-haired old lady knitting placidly by the fire. Which words in the excerpt hint at what might happen later in the story? “the fire burned brightly” “ideas about the game” “sharp and unnecessary perils” “knitting placidly by the fire”
After being kidnapped from West Africa and enslaved in Boston, Phillis Wheatley became the first African American and one of the first women to publish a book of poetry in the colonies in 1773. Who Was Phillis Wheatley?
