What do YOU think? Based on what we’ve read, when do YOU think someone should be considered an adult?
Remember to use all five of our unit vocab words: guideline, ambiguous, mature, status, and due to. You must write complete sentences!

Should there be one agreed-upon legal age of
adulthood for consuming alcohol, voting, driving,
serving in the military, and being tried as a criminal?
Or is it justifiable to impose different guidelines for
different domains?

Read the excerpt from the odyssey then his chores being all dispatched she caught another brace of man to make his breakfast and whisk away his great door slab to let his sheep go through but he behind reset the stones as one would cap a quiver what two things are being compared in this epic simile

Read the following excerpt from life on the mississippi by mark twain. no girl could withstand his charms. he "cut out" every boy in the village. when his boat blew up at last, it diffused a tranquil contentment among us such as we had not known for months. but when he came home the next week, alive, renowned, and appeared in church all battered up and bandaged, a shining hero, stared at and wondered over by everybody, it seemed to us that the partiality of providence for an undeserving reptile had reached a point where it was open to criticism. how does twain's use of understatement serve his purpose? be sure to use specific details from the text to support your answer.

The famous quote "the jungle is dark but full of diamonds" could be alluding to death. question 1 options: a) true b) false