What is this excerpt mostly about? Read the excerpt from The Ancient City.
There were no desks. Vase paintings show boys sitting
on stools holding wood-backed wax writing tablets. They
wrote on the wax with a stylus, a sort of bone or metal
pencil pointed at one end and flattened out in a leaf
shape at the other. Many of these have been found. The
flattened end was used for smoothing out the wax to
make corrections. Occasionally they were allowed to
write properly, with a reed pen and ink on papyrus. All
books were written on papyrus, and rolled up in scrolls
rather than bound in pages.
o what the classrooms looked like
what the books were made of
O what tools students used to write
O what materials were used as pencils

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Read the rough draft of a student's conclusion to anargumentative editorial.(1) year-round schooling would student achievement.(2) not so much information would have to be crammed intonine months. (3) furthermore, the elimination of long breaks, particularly summer break, would significantly reduce"learning loss" and the additional time wasted at thebeginning of each academic year to reteach previouslylearned material. (4) it is clear that year-round schooling students learn and retain more. (5) the united staleis not the only country to experiment with a year-roundschool schedule. (6) although many still claim that evidenceabout year-round school and its link to higher achievement isinconclusive, these people need to open their eyes and seethat students in these schools consistently score higher oncertain assessments than students who attend schools withtraditional nine-month calendars. (7) it is about time that wereplaced our outdated and inefficient school calendars. which best revises sentence 6 to create a more appropriate and respectful tone