Read the following prompt, and then write a claim in response. Explain the parts of this prompt that influenced the way you wrote the claim. Passage
Every year, the eighth graders at your middle school take a trip to Washington, D. C., to meet your government representatives and see the important historical sites. This year, though, your principal is thinking about canceling the trip and using the money to make some much-needed improvements to the school building. Write an essay in which you argue for or against canceling the trip, and give at least two reasons to support your answer.

The playwright would be able to express __ but the painter likely would not

Read the excerpt from "a defence of poetry.” poetry thus makes immortal all that is best and most beautiful in the world; it arrests the vanishing apparitions which haunt the interlunations of life, and veiling them, or in language or in form, sends them forth among mankind, bearing sweet news of kindred joy to those with whom their sisters abide—abide, because there is no portal of expression from the caverns of the spirit which they inhabit into the universe of things. poetry redeems from decay the visitations of the divinity in man. which details from the excerpt provide more information about shelley’s idea that poetry "makes immortal all that is best and most beautiful in the world”? check all that apply. arrests the vanishing apparitions which haunt the interlunations of life sends them forth among mankind, bearing sweet news to those with whom their sisters abide no portal of expression from the caverns of the spirit redeems from decay the visitations of the divinity in man

Write a story about a teacher that can read minds (1-2 pages)