Read the excerpt from a speech to the school board about the art department. art is the foundation of what it means to be a human. so many things try to push their way into being more important. we need to refocus ourselves and reevaluate our priorities. we should not cut the funding to the school's art department, because the students will suffer. everyone thinks that art class is just fun and games. we always think that we need to prioritize everything else first. but it is everything else that will suffer when we lack art and beauty in our lives. which ideas from the excerpt would be most appropriate to include in a summary? select two options. “art is the foundation of what it means to be a human.” “we should not cut the funding to the school's art department, because the students will suffer.” “we need to refocus ourselves and reevaluate our priorities.” “everyone thinks that art class is just fun and games.” “but it is everything else that will suffer when we lack art and beauty in our lives.”

OPTIONS 1 & 2 are the correct answer

The correct answers are A. "Art is the foundation of what it means to be a human" and B. "We should not cut the funding to the school's art department, because the students will suffer"

Explanation:

Summarizing means taking the main statements or the most important ideas of a text, reducing it to its essentials. In the case of the excerpt presented, there are multiple ideas related to the importance of art as the foundation of being human and connected to this idea, the importance of reevaluating priorities in terms of the funding to the school's art department as it will have consequences in students. Considering this, the most important or essential ideas in this text are first the importance of art "Art is the foundation of what it means to be a human" and due to this, the importance of considering the funding of the school's department as cutting it would have a negative impact on students "We should not cut the funding to the school's art department, because the students will suffer"

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