Read the short speech.Operating a motor vehicle requires a driver’s undivided attention. Navigating the roads, attending to road signs, and anticipating the behavior of others demands focus. Young drivers must ignore distractions that hinder their concentration, such as texting. Texting while driving is a blindfold that obstructs views and destroys caution. In the worst situations, it leads to destruction and can be fatal.
Which phrase from Martin Luther King Jr.’s "I have a Dream” speech contains the strongest emotional connotations?
Which clue best helps readers know that the first two paragraphs of My Story are structured chronologically?
Read the paragraph.(1) Dogs are great pets for families because they teach children many important life lessons. (2) A dog must be walked and fed at certain times during the day. (3) When a child is in charge of these tasks, he or she learns to be dependable and disciplined. (4) Helping to take care of a dog might interfere with homework or other activities, but it’s essential for children to have some responsibility. (5) In addition, dogs are loyal, playful, loving companions.
Nate is writing an essay arguing that the football program at his school should be canceled for safety reasons. Which is the most effective claim for his argument?
Which are some effects of telling the story Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy primarily from the perspectives of children? Check all that apply.
Which sentence is written correctly?
Read the excerpt from chapter 6 of Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy.One afternoon, after another dreary Sunday, he walked home from Mrs. Cobb's with the sea breeze determined to shove him to Malaga Island. It scooted around him and pulled at his ears. It threw up the dust of the road into his face to turn him around, and when he leaned into it, it suddenly let go and pushed at him from behind, laughing. But with the iron word forbidden tolling like a heavy bell by his ears, Turner would not let himself be brought to Malaga. And so with a last abrupt kick, the sea breeze twisted around and left him. Turner watched it rushing pell-mell down Parker Head and toward the shore. "Go find Lizzie," he whispered.
In Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy,how does the time period of 1912 contribute to the main conflict in the novel?
Read the excerpt from Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy.He spread his arms wide against the ocean sounds: the rush of the waves, the manic giggles of the gulls, the sighing of the sea breeze against the granite. He put his back to all of Phippsburg—Lord, to the entire continent—till with a shrug he sloughed off its heavy stillness and looked for a way to climb down to the water. . . . [F]inally he was down on the beach, breathing hard and deep, like something that was only just coming alive and drinking in the liquid air for the first delicious time.
Read the sentenceGordon gently persuaded his grandfather to play checkers.
Read the excerpt from Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy.He had seen the island from the far ledges, standing with his father and Sheriff Elwell and Deacon Hurd and everyone else important in the town. A stony beach, a stony ledge or two, some pines—a few toppled over with their heads in the water, a few tilted, most of them still straight. There had seemed nothing on the island that would set anyone but a gull to wishing that he could live there.But coming on it now, from the water, with Lizzie stroking and angling her way to the point, Turner felt as if he was on the brink of a discovery. . . . Turner felt the world moving slowly and anciently beneath him, and he began to sway back and forth with the waves, with the trees, with the rolling globe itself.
Which best contrasts the way language is used in My Story and "On the Bus with Rosa Parks"?
In Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy, which characters are in conflict? Select 4 options.
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