Analyzing the Text Cite Text Evidence Support your responses with evidence from the text.
1. Draw Conclusions What is the central idea of “Is 16 Too Young to
Drive a Car?”
2. Evaluate Reread lines 101–125. Explain how the statistics the author
provides support his central idea. Is there another way to interpret
the statistics? Support your answer.
3. Cause/Effect Reread lines 155–173. Which details explain why teen
drivers make poor decisions?

Read this excerpt from "the light of gandhi's lamp" by hilary kromberg inglis, in which she describes driving to the police station where her sister is being detained. to avoid looking at the blackened windows at the top of the building and thinking about the history of who had died or been tortured there, i always looked instead at the little chinese restaurant on the opposite side of the road. how does this passage affect the text? it conveys, with great subtlety, the conflict she felt over having a sister who would break the law and end up in the custody of the police. it conveys, without any implied moral judgment, that those who fought against apartheid considered themselves to be soldiers in a just war. it conveys, with an extended metaphor, the idea that being detained by the police in this society was regarded as a badge of honor. it conveys, with direct language, the view held by many anti-apartheid activists that the police often acted in brutal and unlawful ways.

In marian anderson sings the author begins the story by putting the reader right in the middle of the action what is the yearn for this type of organization

The greatest gift the sumerians gave the world was the invention of writing. the sumerians were wealthy people. they needed some way to keep track of what they owned. they began drawing pictures. they used a reed as a pen. they drew on soft pieces of clay. the soft clay was then dried in the sun. the tablet became a permanent record. later, the sumerian drawings changed into wedge-shaped symbols. this kind of writing is called cuneiform. by putting symbols together, the sumerians could write entire sentences.