My teacher, ms. norris has set things up for every student in our class to get a pen pal! i cannot wait because it will be so fun to write and get letters from a real pen pal. we can choose the country and the age of our pen pals. so i will pick estonia, because that is the country i studied for my geography report. also, i want a pen pal who is the same age as me. we even get to list some of our hobbies, so maybe i will have lots in common with my pen pal.

which choice gives the best concluding sentence for this paragraph?
a) i think my friend alex will have a pen pal from argentina.
b) ms. norris has been teaching at our school for almost eleven years.
c) out of all ms. norris' class activities, this one has to be the best yet.
d) i am not sure who first started pen pal programs for elementary school kids.

C. A, B, and D do not relate to the character and therefore cannot be a conclusion sentence.

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1. read the following excerpt from franklin d. roosevelt's "fireside chat 19":

on the other side of the picture, we must learn also to know that guerilla warfare against the germans in, let us say serbia or norway, us; that a successful russian offensive against the germans us; and that british successes on land or sea in any part of the world strengthen our hands.

remember always that germany and italy, regardless of any formal declaration of war, consider themselves at war with the united states at this moment just as much as they consider themselves at war with britain or russia. and germany puts all the other republics of the americas into the same category of enemies. the people of our sister republics of this hemisphere can be honored by that fact.  

the true goal we seek is far above and beyond the ugly field of battle. when we resort to force, as now we must, we are determined that this force shall be directed toward ultimate good as well as against immediate evil. we americans are not destroyers — we are builders.

analyze the effectiveness of this excerpt. how does it function within the speech as a whole? how does the structure of the excerpt to convey the speech's purpose and key points? support your argument with evidence from the speech. (10 points)