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Which scenario shows a student demonstrating good listening skills during a class discussion?
Based on the descriptive details in the passage, what inferences can be made about the setting? Select three answers.
Read the excerpt from It's Our World, Too!: Young People Who Are Making a Difference.Neto was waiting by Andy's locker the next morning. "He had tears in his eyes," Andy remembers. "He said that adult fans were swearing at the Mexican players and that it wasn't fair. He was really hurting. He said, 'Is there any way you can help?' I told him I'd try."When Neto left, Andy walked into the principal's office and repeated Neto's story. He asked for the school's support in dealing with the crowd. "The principal told me he hadn't heard adults say those things," Andy recalls. "He said some of the parents would have to call him and complain before the school administration could get involved. He said Neto had probably heard it out of context anyway." Andy stormed out angrily.
Read the excerpt from Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet.Juliet: If they do see thee, they will murder thee.Romeo: Alack, there lies more peril in thine eyeThan twenty of their swords: look thou but sweet,And I am proof against their enmity.Juliet: I would not for the world they saw thee here.Romeo: I have night's cloak to hide me from their sight;And but thou love me, let them find me here:My life were better ended by their hate,Than death prorogued, wanting of thy love
Read the excerpt from "The Gift of the Magi."Had the queen of Sheba lived in the flat across the airshaft, Della would have let her hair hang out the window some day to dry just to depreciate Her Majesty’s jewels and gifts.
Cynthia is writing a fictionalized story about the real life of a nurse. She used a scene from her favorite television sitcom as the source material for her research on the life of nurses.
Read the excerpt from A Story of the Red Cross.The conditions were so new to them that it was a relief to meet persons who had seen such things before. We were asked not only to act with them, but to assume charge of the administration of relief. This, of course, we would not do, but that we would meet with, counsel, and aid them in every way in our power, is needless to affirm. That we did do this, through every day of our stay of three months, not only our own conviction, but the unasked and unexpected testimony of both Galveston and the Legislature of the State of Texas, go to assure.
Cinta reviewed her notes about genealogical research before the class discussion. She was ready to share her information with her classmates and then answer questions. When Mr. MacGregor asked if she was ready, Cinta smiled and nodded her head.
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Read the excerpt from "Clara Barton’s Childhood.”For several weeks the sound of hammer and saw had been heard on the Barton farm where a new barn was being built. The framework was almost up. David Barton and his little sister Clara, with a group of friends, were eagerly watching the carpenters, who were just fixing the high rafters to the ridge-pole."I dare you to climb to the top, Dave!" suddenly challenged a boy in the group.Almost before the challenge had been given, his coat was off, and he had started toward the new building amid a chorus of cries: "Good for you, Dave!" from the group of young spectators who were always thrilled by his daring exploits.
Which literary elements define narrative poetry? Select 4 options.rhythm and rhymeparagraphsfigurative languageplot and settingpunctuated sentencescharacters
Events that take the conflict to its highest point help to develop
What is one reason that an author may choose to relate events in memoir form?
Which details from the excerpt best indicate that Clara’s actions were risky? Select three answers.
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