1. Write five details to add to a paragraph about why tap water is a better choice than bottled water. You may use information from the e-mail.

2. Write a paragraph about whether bottled water is worth the cost. Choose one
topic sentence. Then write the rest of the paragraph. Use at least five details in
the paragraph.
Bottled water is not worth the money it costs.
OR
Bottled water is costly, but it is worth the money.

3. Here are five details. Put an X next to the details that should be added to a
paragraph about how bottled water harms the earth.
• There are ads on TV about bottled water
• Oil is used to make the bottles for bottled water.
• Bottled water often comes from the same place as tap water.
• A lot of gas is used to take bottled water to stores.
• People throw away the bottles after they drink bottled water.​

The gift of the magi analyze the various characters in the story. list which character types—dynamic, round, static, and flat—you observed in the story. cite evidence to support your response.

Select the correct answer. lyric poems often deal with intense emotions. which statement best describes the shift in emotion in "lift every voice and sing" as it moves from the first into the second stanza? lift every voice and sing till earth and heaven ring, ring with the harmonies of liberty; let our rejoicing rise high as the listening skies, let it resound loud as the rolling sea. sing a song full of the faith that the dark past has taught us, sing a song full of the hope that the present has brought us, facing the rising sun of our new day begun let us march on till victory is won. stony the road we trod, bitter the chastening rod, felt in the days when hope unborn had died; yet with a steady beat, have not our weary feet come to the place for which our fathers sighed? we have come over a way that with tears has been watered, we have come, treading our path through the blood of the slaughtered, out from the gloomy past, till now we stand at last where the white gleam of our bright star is cast. a. the joyful call of the first stanza gives way to a bitter recounting of history in the second. b. the first stanza's anger is replaced by the second stanza's resignation. c. the poem moves from a sense of wonder in the first stanza toward a sense of perplexity in the second. d. there is no change between the first stanza and the second. the emotions are the same in both.

Read the sentence from barrio boy by ernesto galarza. "now, ernesto, you are the man of the family. you will take care of your mother until we are together in sacramento. which statement best describes the figurative language used in these sentences? a simile is used to compare ernesto to a man. a simile is used to paint a picture of family life. a metaphor is used to compare a man and his family. a metaphor is used to paint a picture of responsibility.