Writing Prompt The traditional school calendar is 10 months with a 2-month break in the summer. Your
school is considering switching to a year-round calendar with shorter breaks throughout
the year. Write a letter to your school's principal arguing to keep the current 10-month
calendar or switch to a year-round calendar. Your essay must be based on ideas and
information that can be found in the passage set.
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Manage your time carefully so that you can:
• read the passages.
plan your response.
write your response; and
revise and edit your response.
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Be sure to:
• include a claim.
use evidence from multiple sources; and
• avoid overly relying on one source.
Your response should be in the form of a multi-paragraph essay. Write your response in
the space provided

a complex sentence consists of an independent clause and one or more dependent clauses.  

to write complex sentences, we must use subordinating conjunctions.  

all the complex sentences begin with a subordinating conjunction and when it occurs, a comma must be place at the end of the dependent clause. on the contrary, if the sentence begins with an independent clause, then no comma is used.

after  

although  

as  

because  

before  

if  

since  

when  

for example,  

after she won the competition, she became very popular.  

although my father was hurt, he continued fighting for his rights.  

as all of you got a ten, you will be able to leave early today.  

before he went to the war, he asked his parents to bless him.  

if it is cold, i won’t go out.  

since you didn’t bring the homework, you will get low grades.  

when it is hot in the town, everyone goes to the beach.  

the answer is definitely the first answer: lizabeth is older now and realizes that she may not have made the best decisions.