Look at the graphic from Citizenship.

Top: Citizens have the power to shape their neighborhoods, cities, and country. Whether at the voting booth or on an Internet blog, citizens have many ways to flex their democratic muscles. A man sitting at a table with three lumps of clay labeled: healthcare, education, and environment. He is stretching the education clay and says,

Which statement best summarizes the central idea of both panels?

Citizens must be concerned with health care, education, and the environment.
The best presidents have encouraged people to become better citizens.
Citizen participation is the key to building better communities and governments.
Citizens should focus on the issues of today instead of looking to the past for answers.

Now poetry is a genre of literature that offers readers a great variety of stories, thoughts, and images using different formats and rhyme schemes. this variety allows readers to experience a vast array of literary mediums. you could say that the different forms have their own elements, terms, and definitions. you could also say that different forms of poetry require different approaches and methods for deriving meaning. think about specific works of poetry that you have read, including the reading selections for this unit. discuss particular elements or types of poetry that you begin to understand the different parts of a poem. what are some of the challenges you have faced when reading poetry? explain the strategies that have with your reading comprehension.

Which line in this excerpt from the great gatsby by f. scott fitzgerald contains a simile? about half way between west egg and new york the motor-road hastily joins the railroad and runs beside it for a quarter of a mile, so as to shrink away from a certain desolate area of land. this is a valley of ashes—a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke and finally, with a transcendent effort, of men who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air. occasionally a line of grey cars crawls along an invisible track, gives out a ghastly creak and comes to rest, and immediately the ash-grey men swarm up with leaden spades and stir up an impenetrable cloud which screens their obscure operations from your sight.

What is the purpose of this public service announcement? to encourage people to donate to recycling programs to encourage people to join recycling advocacy group