Excerpt from marsupials carole jenkins when people think of kangaroos, they often picture a baby kangaroo 1peeking out of its mothers’ pouch. animals that carry their young in pouches are a kind of mammal called a marsupial. although the kangaroo is probably the most well known, 2there are many others that live in various parts of the world. kangaroos live in australia and come in many sizes. wallabies are the smallest and are about the size of a rabbit. 3large kangaroos may way as much as 200 pounds and may reach a height of seven feet. baby kangaroos are called joeys and are only about an inch long when they are born. 4a joey may live, and develop in its mother’s pouch for as long as 6 months. kangaroos live in groups called mobs. they are basically very timid animals and 5exscape from their enemies by jumping away on their strong and powerful hind legs. they are vegetarians with sharp teeth to eat grasses and foliage close to the ground. which sentence from the first paragraph expresses the main idea of this passage? a) animals that carry their young in pouches are a kind of mammal called a marsupial. b) although the kangaroo is probably the most well known, there are many others that live in various parts of the world. c) they are basically very timid animals and escape from their enemies by jumping away on their strong and powerful hind legs. d) when people think of kangaroos, they often picture a baby kangaroo peeking out of its mothers’ pouch.

Choose one group member who participated in your discussion. in 100-150 words, evaluate the effectiveness of their main argument and supporting evidence. using your notes, explain whether or not their claims were developed well, what evidence they used to support their claim, and how well they responded to the prompt. is there anything they could have done to be more effective? if so, what was it?

Select the contred text in the passage which sentence in this excerpt from john galsworthy's narrative essay "gone" reflects his view that there is no afterlife? an old woman and mrs. herd's sister were in the sitting-room, they showed us to the crazy, narrow stairway. though we lived distant but four hundred yards of a crows flight, we had never seen mrs. herd before, for that is the way of things in this land of minding one's own business a slight dark girlish-looking woman, almost quite refined away, and with those eyes of the dying, where the spirit is coming through, as it only does when it knows that al is over except just the passing. she lay in a double bed with clean white sheets. a white-washed room, so low that the ceiling almost touched our heads, some flowers in a bow, the small lattice window open. though it was hot in there, it was better far than the rooms of most families in towns, living on a wage of twice as much, for here was no sign of defeat in decency or cleanliness. in her face, as in poor herd's, was that same strange minging of resigned despair and almost eager appeal, so terrible to disappoint. yet, trying not to disappoint it, one felt guilty of treachery: what was the good, the kindness in making this poor bird flutter still with hope against the bars, when fast prison had so surely closed in round her? but what else could we do? we could not give her those glib assurances that naive souls make so easily to others concerning their after state. and the night was so beautiful, so utterly glamourously beautiful, with its star-flowers, and its silence and its trees clothed in moonlight. all was tranquil as a dream of sleep. but it was long before our hearts wandering with poor herd, would let us remember that she had slipped away into so beautiful a dream

(1) fire extended humans’ geographical boundaries by allowing them to travel into regions that were previously too cold to explore. (2) it also kept predators away, allowing early humans to sleep securely. (3) fire, in fact, has been a significant factor in human development and progress in many ways. (4) other obvious benefits of fire are its uses in cooking and in hunting. (5) probably even more important, however, is that learning to control fire allowed people to change the very rhythm of their lives. (6) before fire, the human daily cycle coincided with the rising and setting of the sun. (7) with fire, though, humans gained time to think and talk about the day’s events and to prepare strategies for coping with tomorrow. the sentence that expresses the main idea is: (type the number of the sentence. then click “go.”)