The following question is for ALL students
1. Choose one of the prompts listed below and write an introductory paragraph with a closed thesis statement.
- What do you believe are the benefits of daily exercise?
- Are online courses better than traditional course? Why or why not?
- Do you believe that television has more of a negative or positive impact on society? Why or why not?
- What age do you think is more appropriate for someone to be able to get their driver’s license, and why?
- What do you think should be the main priorities for Michigan's budget?
The following questions are for Regular 9th ONLY - Collection 1 - Choose 1
1. According to Quindlen, how is America different from other countries?
2. What is the connection between the events Gordimer describes in the introduction (lines 1-48) and the events in the fairy tale? Include two details from the text to support your answer.
3. What does Lincoln mean when he says, “The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here” (lines 13-15)?
2. What is the connection between the events Gordimer describes in the introduction (lines 1-48) and the events in the fairy tale? Include two details from the text to support your answer.
3. What does Lincoln mean when he says, “The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here” (lines 13-15)?
The following questions are for ALL students - Collection 5 - Choose 1
Night
1. How were Kapos like the camp administrators, and how were they like the other prisoners? Use details from the memoir to support your answer.
Is Survival Selfish
2. Summarize the factors that influence a person's actions in a crisis.
The Leap
3. Explain how the narrator's mother reacts to conflict. Provide specific details from the text to support your answer.
1. How were Kapos like the camp administrators, and how were they like the other prisoners? Use details from the memoir to support your answer.
Is Survival Selfish
2. Summarize the factors that influence a person's actions in a crisis.
The Leap
3. Explain how the narrator's mother reacts to conflict. Provide specific details from the text to support your answer.
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The following questions are from Collection 5 - Choose 1
Love's Vocabulary
1.According to the author, how does the paltry, or small, vocabulary of love affect poets? Give an example from the text of a poet's imaginative solution to this problem.
My Shakespeare
2. At what point in her performance does Tempest first use the name Shakespeare? What effect does she create by making this choice?
1.According to the author, how does the paltry, or small, vocabulary of love affect poets? Give an example from the text of a poet's imaginative solution to this problem.
My Shakespeare
2. At what point in her performance does Tempest first use the name Shakespeare? What effect does she create by making this choice?