Marita's Bargain. ENGLISH 12 COLLECTONS BOOK writing activity: Gladwell describes how attending the KIPP Academy has affected Marita's relationships with her old friends who do not go to the school. Write a diary entry in which she reflects on the change in these friendships. Include the following:- Marita's feelings about the importance of succeeding in school- the amount of time Marita has outside of school- the reaction of her old friends to the demands of the Kipp Academy- Marita's relationship with her mother. Begin your diary entry, Dear Diary, My life has changed in many ways since I began attending KIPP.
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Read the following excerpt from "harrison bergeron" by kurt vonnegut: he tried to think a little about the ballerinas. they weren't really very good-no better than anybody else would have been, anyway. they were burdened with sashweights and bags of birdshot, and their faces were masked, so that no one, seeing a free and graceful gesture or a pretty face, would feel like something the cat drug in. george was toying with the vague notion that maybe dancers shouldn't be handicapped. but he didn't get very far with it before another noise in his ear radio scattered his thoughts. what message about the role of media is best supported in this excerpt? a. media are the reason george is able to watch ballet. b. media change people's values, making them more selfish. c. media tend to make audiences' worldviews the same. d. media can be used to distract audiences from the truth.