Isabel's eyes got bigger and she looked worried. "Esperanza, when I go to school next week, you will be here alone with the babies and will have to do the laundry." Esperanza took a deep breath and said weakly, "I can learn." —Esperanza Rising, Pam Muñoz Ryan How is Esperanza changing, based on this passage? She is now afraid that Isabel will not like her if she cannot learn to do laundry. She has given up on learning something new. She is no longer interested in being friends with Isabel. She now knows that she has a lot to learn about chores.

D. She now knows that she has a lot to learn about chores.

Explanation:

she has never folded landrey in her life and it says in the text she is not very good with chores so therefore She now knows that she has a lot to learn about chores.

SORRY FOR THE BAD SPELLING :(

quite an interesting way to teach topic sentences, because the answer to this question is the best definition of a topic sentence that one can present, it is as if answering the questions taught you how to do it, this is some real teaching, it is terribly well-done.

the topic sentence in this paragraph is:

topic sentences writers stay on track and keep a paragraph from becoming an aimless collection of sentences about an idea.

which incidentally tells you what a topic sentence should be.

banquo is a great foil