What does the passage imply about children and learning?
a.
children are usually rowdy so teachers need to be strict disciplinarians.
b.
children are overly passive in school and therefore do not learn well.
c.
children who learn facts and conform will likely succeed in life.
d.
children would be best served if allowed to develop as individuals.

Read the excerpt from the dark game: true spy stories from invisible ink to cia moles. yet, by the time robert e. lee surrendered to ulysses grant at appomattox, virginia, some four years later, about 620,000 soldiers had died on the battlefields, more than american battle deaths in all other wars from the revolution through the vietnam war. what is the author’s primary purpose for including this detail? to inform readers about the differences between three military conflicts to persuade readers of the seriousness of the american civil war to entertain readers with tales from behind the lines of battle to encourage readers to visit battlegrounds in appomattox, virginia