Which detail from the passage best supports the Reading Passage
Should You Work During the School Year?
article's main idea that working during the school
by Staff Writer Maryam Khan
year is beneficial?
1 Every Tuesday and Thursday, high school junior Kayla Morrison goes to a
local café--not to eat, but to work. For the last four months, she's been working
Getting a job as a teen tells potential future
at the café those two afternoons a week and every Saturday morning.
O employers that you have initiative, that is, the
2 Kayla is one of the many American high school students who work. In fact,
energy that's needed to do something.
around eighty percent of all high school students will have had some kind of job
by the time they graduate. But is working during the school year a good thing?
Let's find out
According to the U. S. Department of Education, Benefits
in 2007, 24.8% of 16-and 17-year-olds worked. 3 Kayla's friend Sergio Morales is a senior who works fifteen to twenty hours a
A slightly larger number worked 15
week bagging groceries. He says, "Per hour, the money doesn't sound like
much, but it adds up. I like being able to spend it on things I want to buy. And I
more per week than those worki
an am also saving a little to go to a community college next year."
15 hours
4 Sergio has named an obvious benefit of working-getting money in return for
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He says, "Per hour, the money doesn't sound like much, but it adds up. I like being able to spend it on things I want to buy. And I am also saving a little to go to a community college next year."

Explanation:

This is the detail from the passage that best supports the article's main idea that working during the school year is beneficial. In this passage, the author presents several examples of high school students who work during the school year. The author tells us that in 2007, 24.8% of 16-and 17-year-olds worked. An example of a benefit that the passage mentions is that of being able to spend money on the things that the teenagers want, as well as being able to save money to pay for college.

beowulf sets out on his journey for daneland. -- 1

hrothgar welcomes beowulf. -- 2

beowulf waits for grendel to attack heorot. -- 3

beowulf succeeds in defeating grendel by tearing off his arm. -- 4

beowulf fights with grendel’s mother. -- 5

beowulf sets out for his fight with the dragon. -- 6

beowulf sets out for his geatish homeland. -- 7

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)