Select the contraction that completes the sentence.

Mrs. Garcia _____ ready to give the spelling test.

weren't
wasn't

Answer:

Wasn't

Explanation:

She was not or wasn't ready.

Answer:

wasn't

Explanation:

ms.garcia was not ready we know this because the sentance later said it .

Short stories can be read in one sitting and rarely exceed five pages in length. True False​

Please help me with this!!!

Which statement best describes the relationship between the two newspaper articles?
A.The first article includes correct information about why the ship sank while the second article incorrectly claims the ship did not sink.
B. Both articles included information about the trouble the ship had when it first left harbor.
C. The first article includes more details about the passengers on the ship than does the second article.
D. Both articles incorrectly claim that the ship did not sink after hitting the iceberg.

What is the connection between chromosomes and the heavily muscled phenotype??
Uses these vocab terms or phases in the short answer response: allele, chromosomes , heavily muscled, myostatin protein
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What is one way that people can harm the environment?

Trees provide shade from the sun for humans and animals.


Trees provide oxygen for humans and animals to breathe.


Trees provide furniture like tables and chairs to use.

Trees are beautiful to look at in parks and forests.

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Making Towers Bird-Friendly
The lights on tall communication towers warn pilots to avoid the towers when flying at night. Unfortunately, the steady red lights often used on towers have the opposite effect on birds: the bright beams attract and confuse them. Instead of avoiding the lights, the birds fly directly toward them, crashing into the towers or becoming entangled in power lines. Millions of birds have died this way. However, there is a solution. Unlike steady lights, flashing or blinking lights don't attract birds. In response to demands from conservation groups, the Federal Aviation Administration in 2016 began requiring communication towers in the U.S. to use blinking lights instead of steady ones.

What is the main idea of the passage?

To save birds, communication towers have begun using blinking lights.
Birds are attracted to the steady red lights on communication towers.

What is one characteristic that all Tall Tales share?
Monologue
Foreshadowing
Exaggeration
Mystery

Must a person challenge authority to be a hero?

What is one way that people can harm the environment?
Trees provide shade from the sun for humans and animals.


Trees provide oxygen for humans and animals to breathe.


Trees provide furniture like tables and chairs to use.

Trees are beautiful to look at in parks and forests.

Read the claim below.
Video games are valid learning tools.
Select the piece of evidence that best supports this claim.

What's your go to movie?

You may have seen it a 100 times, but what movie can you watch and rewatch?

Why do you like it so much? Be sure to explain to receive full credit.

A poem with meter includes:
1. a repeating pattern of accents within each line
2. a pattern of rhyming words at the ends of lines
3. at least thirty lines, organized into groups of four
4. an imaginative comparison between two unlike things

Read the passage.
To Stand or Not to Stand?
In 2016, Vallecito Elementary School in San Rafael, California, became the first U.S. school to replace all of its ordinary desks with raised desks that students stand at. Speaking to a reporter from TIME for Kids magazine, one student at the school gave the standing desks high praise. "You feel happier, you're less tired, and you're more active," she said. According to several studies, children working at standing desks burn more calories and are more focused on tasks. However, some teachers and parents are opposed to the change. They are concerned that standing for long periods of time could cause fatigue, the strain on the legs and feet, or posture problems. In addition, standing desks are more expensive than seated desks. Only time will tell whether standing desks will prove to be the next big trend or a failed experiment.

What is the main idea of the passage?

Studies have shown that standing desks help students focus on their schoolwork while being more active.
Some people say that standing desks promote good study habits, but others are wary about the new decks.

HELP PLEASE IF YOU HAVE READ THE OUTSIDERS
Write a paragraph (at least 7 sentences) explaining why you believe each of the Greasers - Ponyboy, Johnny, and Dally - could be considered a hero. Include your own definition of hero in the essay, and be sure to explain how each character, in his own way, meets your definition. Remember to support your ideas with examples from the story.
I’LL MARK BRAINLIEST IF YOU DO IT GOOD THANK YOU!!

What do you like about the poem?
What do you notice?
What do you have questions about?
Who is she speaking to?
Who does she compare being somebody to? Why?

Read the excerpt from "What’s Possible for Our Children” by Barack Obama.

This starts with fixing the broken promises of No Child Left Behind. Now, I believe that the goals of this law were the right ones. Making a promise to educate every child with an excellent teacher is right. Closing the achievement gap that exists in too many cities and rural areas is right. More accountability is right. Higher standards are right.

But I’ll tell you what’s wrong with No Child Left Behind. Forcing our teachers, our principals and our schools to accomplish all of this without the resources they need is wrong.

Which phrase from the excerpt shows the speaker’s perspective on the No Child Left Behind bill?

“broken promises”
“educate every child”
“achievement gap”
“higher standards”

Which character did you find the most interesting? Why? The Apple Tree Switch

Which is a complete sentence?
1. Mrs. Stevenson carefully buttoned up her coat.
2. Lara showing me photographs from her travels in India.

The Raven by Edgar Allen Poe
#1 What meaning do the words “each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor” convey to the reader?
Read the following lines from the poem.

Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December,
And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.
Eagerly I wished the morrow:—vainly I had sought to borrow
From my books surcease of sorrow—sorrow for the lost Lenore—
For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore—
Nameless here forevermore.

What meaning do the words “each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor” convey to the reader?


A. Winter was turning into spring.

B. The narrator kept seeing images of someone who had died.

C. The dying fire was casting shadows on the floor.

D. The narrator was sleeping.

The Legend of El Muerto

(1)Vidal was a mexican bandit and horse thief. (2)In 1848, he made the mistake of stealing some horses from the ranch of Texas Ranger Creed Taylor. (3)Most of the Rangers had gone north to chase a band of raiding Comanche's but not Taylor. (4)He soon discovered the horses were missing and along with a neighbor who had also lost some horses, they took off after the thieves.
(5)The two men ran into Bigfoot Wallace near Uvalde and he joined them in the hunt. (6)Wallace was also a Ranger and he had little patients for horse thieves. (7)The three men soon found the camp of the bandits and attacked and killed them all. (8)Bigfoot wanted to make an example of Vidal. (9)He cut off his head and lashed his body firmly into a saddle on the back of a wild mustang. (10)Bigfoot thrust the head into a sombrero, secured it with a strap and tied it to the pommel of the saddle.
(11)For years the wild mustang roamed South Texas terrifying everyone who saw it. (12)Horse and rider became known as El Muerto and were blamed for all kinds of evil deeds and misfortune. (13)Eventually, a posse cornered the wild horse near Ben Bolt and relieved it of its gruesome burden. (14)The corpse was riddled by scores of bullet holes and Indian arrows. (15)It is said that the body is buried in a small cemetery near Ben Bolt. (16)To this day, there are still stories of people seeing a headless horseman riding through the South Texas plains on clear and moonlit nights.



1. What change should be made to sentence 1?
a. Change bandit to bandet
b. Change thief to theif
c. Change mexican to Mexican
d. No change is necessary

2. What change should be made to sentence 3?
a. Change Rangers to rangers
b. Change north to North
c. Place a comma after Comanche’s
d. Change Comanche’s to Comanches

3. What change should be made to sentence 4?
a. Change horses, to horses;
b. Change horses, to horses
c. Change thieves to thiefs
d. No change is necessary


4. What change should be made to sentence 6?
a. Change was to is
b. Change patients to patience
c. Place a comma after patients
d. No change is necessary

5. Which is the best way to combine sentences 8 and 9?
a. Bigfoot wanted to make an example of Vidal and he cut off his head and lashed his body firmly into a saddle on the back of a wild mustang.
b. Bigfoot wanted to make an example of Vidal because he cut off his head and lashed his body firmly into a saddle on the back of a wild mustang.
c. Bigfoot wanted to make an example of Vidal, yet he cut off his head and lashed his body firmly into a saddle on the back of a wild mustang.
d. Bigfoot wanted to make an example of Vidal, so he cut off his head and lashed his body firmly into a saddle on the back of a wild mustang.



6. What change should be made to sentence 11?
a. Place a comma after years
b. Change South Texas to south Texas
c. Change saw to seen
d. No change is necessary

7. What change should be made to sentence 13?
a. Change posse to possey
b. Change Eventually, to Eventually
c. Change its to it’s
d. No change is necessary

How are people affected by love in this text? Is it positive or negative?
( from "Echo and Narcissus" commonlit)

How does Jonas’s view of his community change after he receives his first few memories?

What does xtiny.cf mean

PLS HELP THIS IS DUE TODAY!
Reread paragraphs 25-31. Choose a sentence or phrase you underlined and write a paragraph explaining why the text you annotated indicates a key event.
The paragraphs:
25. Esperanza's eyes were on fire. She stamped out of the cabin, slamming the door, and walked past the mulberry and chinaberry tress to the vineyard. She hurried down a row, then cut over to another.
26. "Esperanza!"
27. She heard Miguel's voice in the distance but she didn't answer. When she got to the end of one row, she moved up to another.
28. "Anza!"
29. She could hear him running down the rows, catching up with her.
30. She kept her eyes on the tamarisk trees in the far distance and walked faster.
31. Miguel eventually caught her arm and pulled her around. "What is the matter with you?"

Read the claim below.
Nelson Mandela was one of the most inspiring people in history.
Select the piece of evidence that best supports this claim.

Read the passage.
The First "Newspaper" War
The Crimean War was fought in the 1850s between Russia on one side and Britain, France, and Turkey on the other. Although it was a major conflict, it is perhaps best remembered as the first war in which journalists were present on the battlefield. News dispatches from William Howard Russell, a reporter for the Times of London, exposed military blunders and revealed the filthy conditions that existed in military hospitals and camps. Photographers such as James Robertson and Roger Fenton made hundreds of photographs of soldiers on the battlefield. These news reports and photographs provided an uncensored look at life on the frontlines. The Crimean War marked the first time in history that people back home were exposed to the horrors of war.

What is the main idea of the passage?

The Crimean War was the first to be the war to be documented for civilians,

The Crimean War was fought between the Russians and the British, French, and Turkish.

The result is an electrolyte with a positive interior in a negative exterior on one side and a negative interior and a positive exterior on the other basically a biological battery.

What device is being used for the battery?
A. Simile
B. Metaphor
C. Personification
D. Hyperbole ​

Why do you think most of Dickens’s works focus on portraying the lives of the poor and the working class?

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Look at the commentary on "Cupid and Psyche" from Bulfinch's Mythology.

The fable of Cupid and Psyche is usually considered allegorical. The Greek name for a butterfly is Psyche, and the same word means the soul. There is no illustration of the immortality of the soul so striking and beautiful as the butterfly, bursting on brilliant wings from the tomb in which it has lain, after a dull, groveling caterpillar existence, to flutter in the blaze of day and feed on the most fragrant and delicate productions of the spring. Psyche, then, is the human soul, which is purified by sufferings and misfortunes, and is thus prepared for the enjoyment of true and pure happiness.
In your journal, reflect on Bulfinch's analysis of the story's theme. Do you agree or disagree with his analysis? Why or why not? What new questions does this analysis of "Cupid and Psyche" bring to mind? Can you answer them? If not, does it matter? Explain.