Which sentence best readers determine the central idea of the paragraph?

a. "perhaps the most difficult thing to come to terms with is the scale of death."
b. "however, you have never encountered anything like elizabethan flu."’
c. "influenza, for example, is an affliction which you no doubt have come across."
d. "another familiar disease is malaria, which elizabethans refer to as ague or fever."

Respond to one of the questions below. include at least two supporting details or examples. a. in “the literature of the middle east and south asia,” laura winkiel writes: “these stories us to understand the complex questions that middle easterners and south asian people ask as they stand at a crossroads of cultural and religious change.” explain how this statement applies to one of the selections you read. be sure to include the title of the selection and explain the crossroads that it illustrates. b. setting and mood are important elements in many of the stories in this unit. choose one story and describe some aspects of its setting: where it takes place; what mood is created by the details of weather, place, and time; and how this setting to convey the theme of the story. c. what did you learn about the role of women in the societies described in the reading selections in this unit? describe how the women cope with the conflicts they encounter. note: if you respond to essay (c), you may not choose the similar essay in the unit 3 unit test.

In an essay, a strong argument does not state a clear claim. has little or no logic. uses few or no sources. is supported with sources.

In free the children why does the author provide a first-hand account of visiting a brick kiln? to emphasize how factory conditions have improvedto show a group of people wno iqbal escapeto emphasize the homic conditions of debt slaveryto show the place where iqbal was forced to work