Read this student's rough draft.

The holiday weekend driving had been slow, and Myra was cramped in the backseat with her little brothers. At least she had a window seat. She had read for 100 miles, a painfully slow three hours, and she needed a diversion. She looked out the window and watched the green mile markers slowly tick by. She saw signs for the Tri-Cities Beltway and wondered what they might encounter.

What sentence would best add descriptive details to the end of this paragraph?

A.) The Tri-Cities Beltway had been constructed to alleviate traffic for three cities, but the merge was always problematic.
B.) The car slowed to a snail’s pace, and the line of cars ahead stretched out of sight, with exhaust fumes looming overhead.
C.) Myra reached into the backseat cooler and found a sandwich and a soda her mother had packed.
D.) The Beltway was a direct path back to their town, and Myra’s family had only 35 miles left to travel.

Answer:

D. is the answer

Explanation:

This is because, it gives information to support the last sentence in the paragraph. If Myra sees signs for the Tri-Cities Beltway, they saying how many more miles Myra had to travel is relating to the same subject. Therefore, it makes the most sense.

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Read the excerpt from "Elevator Systems of the Eiffel Tower, 1889" by Robert M. Vogel.

The first complete elevator machine in the United States, constructed in 1855, was a complex and inefficient contrivance built around an oscillating-cylinder steam engine. The advantages of an elevator system independent of the mill drive quickly became apparent, and by 1860 improved steam elevator machines were being produced in some quantity, but almost exclusively for freight service. It is not clear when the first elevator was installed explicitly for passenger service, but it was probably in 1857, when Otis placed one in a store on Broadway at Broome Street in New York.

In the decade following the Civil War, tall buildings had just begun to emerge; and, although the skylines of the world’s great cities were still dominated by church spires, there was increasing activity in the development of elevator apparatus adapted to the transportation of people as well as of merchandise. Operators of hotels and stores gradually became aware of the commercial advantages to be gained by elevating their patrons even one or two floors above the ground, by machinery. The steam engine formed the foundation of the early elevator industry, but as building heights increased it was gradually replaced by hydraulic, and ultimately by electrical, systems.

Which sentence most directly supports the development of the central idea?

The first complete elevator machine in the United States, constructed in 1855, was a complex and inefficient contrivance built around an oscillating-cylinder steam engine.
It is not clear when the first elevator was installed explicitly for passenger service, but it was probably in 1857, when Otis placed one in a store on Broadway at Broome Street in New York.
In the decade following the Civil War, tall buildings had just begun to emerge; and, although the skylines of the world’s great cities were still dominated by church spires, there was increasing activity in the development of elevator apparatus adapted to the transportation of people as well as of merchandise.
Operators of hotels and stores gradually became aware of the commercial advantages to be gained by elevating their patrons even one or two floors above the ground, by machinery.

Read the last paragraph of the story again. Do you think Montresor feels any regret for killing Fortunato in the story?

1. Identify the important words and phrases. 2. Eliminate minor details. 3. Paraphrase central ideas and details. 4. Summarize in your own words. Review the steps of summarizing. Use your notes to write a brief summary of the interview of Miep Gies.

The last survivor who helped Anne Frank and her family hide from the Nazis has died. Miep Gies was 100. After the Franks were discovered and deported, it was Gies who found and preserved Anne's diary.

DEBORAH AMOS, Host:

Back in 1998, NPR's special correspondent Susan Stamberg visited a woman in Amsterdam and asked her a simple question.

SUSAN STAMBERG: How do you say diary in Dutch?

AMOS: Dagboek.

STAMBERG: Dagboek? Oh, daybook.

AMOS: Yes. Daybook.

STAMBERG: Dag?

AMOS: Yes.

STAMBERG: Boek.

AMOS: Boek.

STAMBERG: Is diary.

AMOS: That woman is Miep Gies. The diary she's referring to is Anne Frank's. Miep Gies helped Anne Frank hide with her family during World War II and saved Anne's diary after she and her family were captured by the Germans. Gies died yesterday at the age of 100. Teri Schultz has this remembrance.

TERI SCHULTZ: Providing refuge to Jews, she noted later, carried a punishment of at least six months in a concentration camp. Still, the Austrian-born Dutch woman, knighted by the governments of Germany and the Netherlands, recipient of a medal from Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum, always insisted she had done nothing extraordinary.

AMOS: I, myself, I'm just a very common person. I simply had no choice. I could foresee many, many sleepless nights and a life filled with regret if I would have refused to help the Franks. And this was not the kind of life I was looking for at all.

SCHULTZ: Gies explained another motivation for emphasizing her modesty. She said if people are allowed to think it takes remarkable qualities to act boldly on behalf of others, few will attempt it.

AMOS: People should never think that you have to be a very special person to help those who need you.

SCHULTZ: But Gies clearly was very special, even when someone still unknown betrayed those she called the hiders and they were taken away at gunpoint to death camps. Gies was not intimidated. She sneaked back into the secret hideaway to try to preserve any belongings of the Franks that hadn't been destroyed or taken. And there she found what would eventually become a treasure of the entire world.

AMOS: I saw Anne's diary scattered all over the floor. I took it with me. I hoped I could return it to Anne after the war. I wanted to see her smile and hear her say, Oh Miep, my diary.

SCHULTZ: That day would never come, as Anne did not survive the Nazi death camps. But Otto Frank did. And he made his way back to Amsterdam in 1945 returning to stay with Gies and her husband. On the very sad day that year that he learned both his daughters had died in a camp, Otto Frank later explained in a documentary, Gies delivered him what he called a miracle.

AMOS: When I returned and after I heard the news that my children would not come back, Miep gave me the diary.

SCHULTZ: Gies described that moment herself years ago in an interview with the Anne Frank Museum in Amsterdam.

AMOS: (Foreign language spoken)

SCHULTZ: For NPR News, I'm Teri Schultz.

EDGE 2020

Please Help!!!!! What are some good debate topics? Best one I will mark brainiest

Please identify THREE author techniques used by your author (can be from the novel and/or the short stories that you read), and provide a quote from the book that supports each technique. Once identified, please explain the author’s goal for using each one. You will write this out in paragraph form and submit a typed copy to the teacher.

Did you include:
____ 3 author techniques
____ 3 quotes that support each technique
____ 3 goals (one for each technique)

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CHARISMA: compelling attractiveness or charm that can inspire devotion in others. Write a paragraph using this word. PLEASE HELP!!

Plz help i give brainlist .

Plz help I can not think of anything

1.
ASSIGNMENT:

Start with a brainstorming exercise. In the space provided, write at least THREE possible topics for your personal narrative. Write the topic and its theme, moral, or lesson for each.

Each topic MUST have an accompanying theme, moral, or lesson learned.

HELP!

Avoid plagiarism and reword the following two paragraphs about The Corn Laws of 1815. (rewording the 1st para. is not necessary)


In reality, these laws passed by parliament were only beneficial to the parliament members since most of them were landowners. They wanted to earn more profit from increased corn prices and not having to buy corn which they can cultivate on surplus land and sell it themselves. However, since most of the old England lived in cities, they had no land to grow the vegetable and relied on buying goods. This is why parliamentary officials were unwilling to revise the law.


In 1828, the Duke of Wellington’s government revised the Corn Laws and they made a sliding scale for the weight-to-price of the corn. This revision still did not help the residents of old England since the price was still high.

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An author's purpose may include______

Understanding the purpose or intention of the text usually involves understanding____________

Readers have to understand the author's point of view or________________

Knowing an author's point of view may__________________

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Poe is the master at creating a scary and suspenseful mood in his stories. Can you find two different parts in the story where Poe is specifically creating this type of mood? ( The Cask of Amontillado)

What is one central idea in Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have A Dream" speech?

Selflessness means being willing to put the fight for justice above all else.

The dedication of the Founding Fathers has ensured justice for all people.

Nonviolence is an important tactic to use in the fight for justice.

The fight for justice requires being practical and logical.

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I'm about to take a reading test and will be updating my questions every few minutes
the person who answers the most questions and gets me the best grade will get brainliest

Read the excerpt from The Diary of Anne Frank and answer the question that follows.

Mrs. Frank. You know how young people like to feel that they have secrets. Peter’s room is the only place where they can talk.

Mrs. Van Daan. Talk! That’s not what they called it when I was young.

[MRS. VAN DAAN goes off to the bathroom. MARGOT settles down to read her book. MR. FRANK puts his papers away and brings a chess game to the center table. He and MRS. FRANK start to play. In PETER’s room, ANNE speaks to PETER, indignant, humiliated.]

Anne. Aren’t they awful? Aren’t they impossible? Treating us as if we were still in the nursery.

What is the meaning of the word indignant in this passage?

pleased
confused
sympathetic
exasperated

How is being wise different from being smart? (5 sentences)

What is the connection between the sections "A source of life" and "Protected from invaders"?

A
Both sections describe how the landscape contributed to the development of ancient Egyptian civilization.
B
Both sections outline why the Nile River was essential to the development of ancient Egyptian civilization.
C
Both sections explain how ancient Egyptian civilization affected the Nile River and the surrounding environment.
D
Both sections provide evidence to show that ancient Egyptian civilization was not affected by the desert landscape.


ITS FROM NEWSELA!

1. alphabetical list of important terms, along with the
definitions and pronunciations of the terms; located
near the end of the book.
2. an alphabetical list of topics in the book with the page
numbers; located near the end of the book.
3. a list of the major parts of a book and the starting page numbers; located at the front of a book.

Part II- “Print” Terms:

4. text printed darker or in color to make words stand out.
5. a style of print with the letters slant to the right.
6. the type and size of the text.
7. the title of the text.
8. the title of a section of the text.
9. symbols used to emphasize a list of items.
10. additional information at the bottom of the page;
usually the definition of an unfamiliar word in the main text.
11. words used to explain what is shown in a picture;
these words are located above, beneath, or beside the picture.

Part III- “Graphic” Terms:

12. a chart that shows and explains the steps in a process or cycle.
13. a graphic used to show events in chronological order.
14. a drawing that has all the parts of the object labeled.
15. a representation of the earth’s surface or the location of a place.
16. a chart divided into rows and columns, containing numbers and words.
17. related information in a box or in the margin to the side of the main text.
18. displays numerical information & often compares things in a visual way.
19. a visual image (picture) taken with a camera.
20. a visual image (picture) created by sketching or drawing.

word bank:
1. illustration
2. photograph
3. sidebar
4. table of contents
5. heading
6. index
7. subheading
8. glossary
9. bold
10. map
11. italic
12. diagram
13. font
14. bullets
15. caption
16. timeline
17. graph
18. footnote
19. table
20. flowchart

Nature is everywhere
Nature is everywhere you go
Everything that lives and grows
is nature
Animals
big and small
Nature is plants that grow so tall.
Nature is every way.
Wonderful. exciting
And need our care.
So listen, learn and do your part to keep nature
Beautiful forever.
Or you can destroy it and make nature a dangerous
place to live, animals and people are the same, they
have emotions, animals will feel abandoned from there
owners, and people have the same thing, they will swallowed
the sadness.
But if we help them, care for them alot, they will be happy for the
smallest thing you do to them.
I like this poem, hope you like it to.

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ITS MORE THAN ONE ANSWER BY THE WAY

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what is the main conflict in tell-tale heart

Which is the best definition of an allegory?

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"Am I addressing the White Queen?"

"Well, yes, if you call that a-dressing," the Queen said. "It isn't MY notion of the thing, at all."

. . . "If your Majesty will only tell me the right way to begin, I'll do it as well as I can."

"But I don't want it done at all!" groaned the poor Queen. "I've been a-dressing myself for the last two hours."

It would have been all the better, as it seemed to Alice, if she had got some one else to dress her, she was so dreadfully untidy.

—Through the Looking Glass,
Lewis Carroll

When Alice uses "addressing," she means.
a.talking to
b.getting dressed
c.writing out envelopes
When the Queen says "a-dressing," she means
a.talking to
b.getting dressed
c.writing out envelopes

Evidence from “Cronus”


Explanation: How does this

evidence convey the theme?




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True and False: When a dependent clause comes at the start of a complex sentence, you need to a comma after it.
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Read this passage about Amelia Earhart.

Amelia Earhart was born July 24, 1897, in Kansas. She was an adventurous and fun-loving child. That adventurous spirit remained as she grew older. One day in 1920, after going on a plane ride, she was determined to fly planes. She worked at any job she could find to save up for flying lessons, which cost $1,000. At one point, she worked as a nurse’s aid and a social worker. Six months after receiving flying lessons, Amelia bought her own plane, and she flew as high as 14,000 feet, which set a world record for female pilots. A short time afterward, Amelia became the sixteenth female to earn a pilot’s license. In 1928, an opportunity arose for Amelia to participate in a transatlantic flight across the Atlantic Ocean as a copilot. This experience later came in handy when she became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic in 1938. She received many honors for this achievement, such as the Distinguished Flying Cross from Congress.

As Amelia approached her fortieth birthday, she was planning her biggest trip yet: She wanted to be the first woman to fly around the world. Of course, she needed a lot of help to make this happen. She made a first attempt that failed and damaged her plane. But Earhart was not one to give up, so she made another attempt at the ground-breaking mission. She did make some progress by flying 7,000 miles to New Guinea but did not make it to her next stop, Howland Island. Sadly, Earhart’s plane disappeared, and, despite search and rescue attempts, she was never found. To this day, Earhart is known and celebrated for her bravery, persistence, and commitment to aviation.

Which additional information would be most appropriate for a student to include in a yearbook page about Amelia Earhart?

A. In 1928, an opportunity arose for Amelia to participate in a transatlantic flight across the Atlantic Ocean as a copilot.
B. One day in 1920, after going on a plane ride, she was determined to fly planes.
C. But Earhart was not one to give up, so she made another attempt at the ground-breaking mission.
D. This experience later came in handy when she became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic in 1938.

PLEASE ANSWER ASAP!!!! How is Max able to feel this way after losing such a good friend, after losing half of Freak the Mighty? How is he able to be Mighty without Freak?

Is this a good body paragraph I wrote? Should I add more to it or is there anything wrong with it? Please tell me!

Body paragraph- Along with educational wise, therapeutic has impacted society significantly. Video games have helped people with ADHD in such a great way. As stated in (source) it says "Playing games helps ADHD patients to keep their minds focused on a task." This is showing that people with ADHD use video games to be able to stay enthralled on one task at a time because video games are able to capture someones ability to stay determined on the video game to beat the game. ADHD is a chronic condition including attention difficulty, hyperactivity, and impulsiveness. Meaning people with ADHD struggle the most with staying focused on something wether that something is cleaning, cooking, or anything for that matter but video games are so easy to be addicted to it captures the full attention of somebody.

I will make brainlist pls answer correctly and the text is down below DIRECTIONS: The following questions focus on the exposition, the rising action, and the falling action in
“Stray.” Answer each question in the space provided.
1. The exposition introduces the setting, characters, and basic situation. Here is one exposition detail:
Exposition detail: Snow has fallen.
What is another exposition detail?
Exposition detail:__________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________________
2. The events in the rising action come before the climax. There are many events in the rising action of “Stray.”
Here is one event in the rising action:
Rising action event: Doris meets the dog.
On the following lines, write two additional events that happen in the rising action.
Rising action events:
a. ________________________________________________________________________________________
b. _______________________________________________________________________________________
3. In “Stray,” the story winds up quickly after the climax. Here is one event in the falling action:
Falling action event: Mr. Lacey tells Doris he took the dog to the pound.
What is another event that happens in the falling action?
Falling action event:____