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COMMONLIT Text-Dependent Questions Directions: For the following questions, choose the best answer or respond in complete sentences.
1. PART A: Which TWO of the following statements best describe the central Ideas of the text?
A. Napoleon is a universally praised and important figure in Western history.
B. Following the political turmoil and violence of the French Revolution, the last thing France needed was a new dictator.
C. While Napoleon as a subject is controversial, most agree that his code represents the height of his legacy and achievements.
D. Though the invasion of Russia ended his career, Napoleon’s fatal mistake was the attempt to invade France’s long-time enemy, Great Britain.
E. Despite his failed attempts in battle and conquest, Napoleon is nevertheless generally considered a military genius, one with a ruthless drive to build an empire.
F. Napoleon created greater harmony in Europe by forcing his enemies to unite against him, bringing on an age of prosperity and peace.
2. PART B: Which TWO of the following quotes best support the answer to Part A?
A. “He was a military paragon, a natural-born warrior and a ruthless conqueror bent on controlling ever more nations and territory.” (Paragraph 2)
B. “Napoleon was 26 years old, and the way he answered his calling was by fighting what one biographer called a series of ‘unnecessary wars.’” (Paragraph 7)
C. “While fighting that war, in 1804, Napoleon climbed the ultimate political rung by prevailing on Pope Pius VII to coronate him the Emperor of France.” (Paragraph 12)
D. “His attempt to invade England, however, failed disastrously in the Battle of Trafalgar, where the British navy – without losing a single vessel – sank 22 of the 33 ships in the Franco-Spanish Armada.” (Paragraph 13)
E. “Thrilled by Napoleon’s defeat in Russia, the European nations, now thoroughly fed up with his wars and mayhem, formed an alliance of seven countries: Austria, Prussia, Russia, Britain, Portugal, Sweden and Spain.” (Paragraph 18)
F. Roberts also praised Napoleon’s “rational and efficient local administration, an end to rural banditry, the encouragement of science and the arts, the abolition of feudalism and the greatest codification of laws since the fall of the Roman Empire.” (Paragraph 24)
3. PART A: What does the word “paragon” as used in paragraph 2 most likely mean?
A. A poor example
B. A model of excellence
C. A failure
D. A reformer
4. PART B: Which of the following phrases best supports the answers to Part A?
A. “dominated Europe and changed its history” (Paragraph 1)
B. “a natural-born warrior and a ruthless conqueror” (Paragraph 2)
C. “a brilliant politician who changed seamlessly” (Paragraph 2)
D. “he was a cerebral author of liberal political reforms” (Paragraph 2)

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Outside the town of Port Angeles, Washington there’s a stretch of westbound road towards Forks. The road snakes around Lake Crescent curving with a dangerous sharpness at some points After so many accidents, a local legend is bound to spark the story passed about Lake Crescent regards a vengeful spirit that causes cars to crash near Lake Crescent She has been called the Lady of the Lake, which connects her to the character of the same name in Arthurian legends but besides the name these two figures seem to have little in common however, such an assumption disregards the evolution of Western culture and the continuance of a misogynistic society.
The contemporary ghost is often said to be returning for vengeance after she was brutally murdered and abandoned by her husband. In his story “The Redfield Girls ” Laird Barron provides an interesting idea a variation of the legend behind the spirit who haunts Lake Crescent The pseudo truths of the story suggest the woman was murdered and left in the lake until her body supposedly turned to soap. The descendants of the woman have dreams of the spirit calling them into the lake. At the end of the story the Lady of the Lake succeeds in dragging several of the characters to a watery death.
Please insert the correct piece of punctuation from the list: a comma (,), a period (.), a semicolon (;), a colon (:), or a hyphen (-). You need to type the punctuation mark, so please do not type in the word of the punctuation. If no piece of punctuation is needed, type the word “Nothing” exactly like that but without the quotation marks.
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Questions Google the quotes. If it is accurate, it is likely that the same quote will be referenced in other stories. I 8. Who is being cited as a source for the story? Google that person or institution to see if they are credible. 9. What research is cited? Google it and see it it is also cited by others andror does that research even exist? 10. Check the comments. It a lot of these comments call out the article for being take or misleading, it probably is. I 11. Do reverse image search. Upload the images into Google reverse image search. I 12. Is the information real or fake? Tree 0810p U S DHM0.0rg All HDUUl Explorers

For each statement below, please select “Claim” if the statement is a claim and select “Grounds” if the statement provides grounds.
Claim
Grounds
For every acre of grass, thousands of gallons of water are needed every summer.
When an entire town switches to yards filled with native flowers and grasses, the bee population increases by 400% over the first two years.
All house and apartment rentals should be required to be rent-to-own with no interest.
60% of families with two incomes struggle to achieve home ownership.
Cities that require non-grass yards for all residents should be offered government grants.
Interest rates are very high.

Rockport Elementary School principal Cheri Holloway explained at a parent-community meeting how the school’s bilingual program for English learners did not attempt to displace a student’s first language but instead provided instruction that reinforced native language capabilities, while concurrently providing for English acquisition. What outcomes are English learners likely to experience as a result of the type of program utilized at Rockport?
Group of answer choices:
Quicker assimilation into the overall student body and acceptance by peers
Improvement in concept formation, analogical reasoning, and creativity
Lack of progress due to confusion created by dual language instruction Enhanced motor skills and improved results on standardized tests

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Unit 4: Although initially a supporter of the French Revolution, the English poet, Charlotte Smith became disillusioned with the revolution owing the terror and violence of the political upheaval. As you analyze the poem, explain how Smith uses language, tone, poetic devices, etc., to convey her disgust and horror at the realities of the revolution. Is she successful in her poetic depictions in “The Emigrants: A Poem”? Why or why not?
Poem:
from The Emigrants: A Poem
BY CHARLOTTE SMITH
[Disillusion with the French Revolution]
So many years have passed,
Since, on my native hills, I learned to gaze
On these delightful landscapes; and those years
Have taught me so much sorrow, that my soul
Feels not the joy reviving Nature brings;
But, in dark retrospect, dejected dwells
On human follies, and on human woes.—
What is the promise of the infant year,
The lively verdure, or the bursting blooms,
To those, who shrink from horrors such as War
Spreads o’er the affrighted world? With swimming eye,
Back on the past they throw their mournful looks,
And see the Temple, which they fondly hoped
Reason would raise to Liberty, destroyed
By ruffian hands; while, on the ruined mass,
Flushed with hot blood, the Fiend of Discord sits
In savage triumph; mocking every plea
Of policy and justice, as she shows
The headless corse of one, whose only crime
Was being born a Monarch—Mercy turns,
From spectacle so dire, her swollen eyes;
And Liberty, with calm, unruffled brow
Magnanimous, as conscious of her strength
In Reason’s panoply, scorns to distain
Her righteous cause with carnage, and resigns
To Fraud and Anarchy the infuriate crowd.—
What is the promise of the infant year
To those, who (while the poor but peaceful hind
Pens, unmolested, the increasing flock
Of his rich master in this sea-fenced isle)
Survey, in neighboring countries, scenes that make
The sick heart shudder; and the man, who thinks,
Blush for his species? There the trumpet’s voice
Drowns the soft warbling of the woodland choir;
And violets, lurking in their turfy beds
Beneath the flowering thorn, are stained with blood.
There fall, at once, the spoiler and the spoiled;
While War, wide-ravaging, annihilates
The hope of cultivation; gives to Fiends,
The meager, ghastly Fiends of Want and Woe,
The blasted land—There, taunting in the van
Of vengeance-breathing armies, Insult stalks;
And, in the ranks, “Famine, and Sword, and Fire,
Crouch for employment.”

Many children eat a lot of fast foods, and some early childhood education environments try to make their foods similar so that children will eat them.
Select two fast food restaurants to research. For each restaurant, select a meal that you might order for yourself and one that you would order for a child. Search the two restaurants for these meals.
What are the totals of calories, fats, carbohydrates, sugar, and protein for each meal?
Compare and contrast the adult meals from each restaurant, then compare and contrast the children’s meals.
Was one group healthier than the other?
Were the children’s meals healthier than the adult meals?
After doing this research, explain how fast-food meals have the ability to negatively impact health and nutritional well-being.

BAIT Words Exercises: The Chocolate Addicts
Add a subordinating conjunction (BAIT word) to each pair of sentences below in order to join the two ideas together, showing their logical relationship. You may place the subordinator in the beginning or middle of each pair. Choose the subordinator you think most appropriate. Add a comma when appropriate. I did the first one as an example.
Example:     WHILE Almost everyone loves chocolate, John and Mary were virtually addicted to it.
They could not have at least one piece of it every day.  They started to twitch.
They were able to eat an entire candy bar.               Their eyes gleamed with new life.
Their dispositions became sunny.               They were able to acquire a chocolate truffle.
John preferred chocolate with nuts.        Mary preferred chocolate with chocolate.
Mary liked a cup of chocolate in the morning and a piece of chocolate at noon.         John preferred a cup of chocolate at noon and a piece of chocolate in the evening.
They did not get their chocolate fix when they wanted it.         They got sulky and hard to be around.
One day John was ordered to stop eating so much chocolate.         It was rotting his teeth.
At about the same time, Mary was told to lay off the chocolate.          It was affecting her complexion.
They attempted to commit suicide by leaping into a vat of chocolate at the candy factory.        They were saved by an alert guard and are now in a Hershey’s Half-way House.