Explain the tone created by the author's words and phrases in paragraphs 10-12. In your response, use details and examples from the story that support your explanation. Write your answer on your answer document.

Annotation: The reader answers that "The author uses a comical tone of voice." While the question does not ask for a tone of voice, the "comical" tone is a valid response. The reader alludes to the comical tone by explaining "that the lawyer and the judge both think it ridiculous." To improve this response, the additional text support of scrambled eggs becoming chickens and planting cooked corn joined with a clarification that both are not realistic would address the comic tone.

Annotation: The reader responds that "The tone is sarcastic." Next the reader states that the lawyer really does not "think that the cooked corn will grow" or "scrambled eggs will grow into chickens" and attempts to explain the sarcasm in these ideas by explaining that the lawyer was "trying to win the case for his client." To improve this response, the reader could make a connection between sarcasm, a way of making hurtful fun, and why these ideas are sarcastic.

Annotation: The reader identifies the tone as "humorus." What follows is a summary of the rest of the story. To improve the response the reader could use some of the text in the summary to support the humorous tone in those paragraphs. Boiling corn to plant, scrambled eggs turning into chickens, and the judge wanting to know if the lawyer had lost his mind could all serve as support for a humorous tone.