Read the claim. schools should stop doing standardized testing. read the counterclaim. the department of education says that teaching students to do well on standardized tests to motivate students and keep them focused on important subjects. read the rebuttal. on the contrary, being forced to focus on testing stresses students and limits the amount of knowledge they can gain. how can the writer revise the rebuttal to make it stronger

Match each poem with the subculture or counterculture from which it came. hip–hop counterculture feminist counterculture beat generation a. "pay attention, here's the thick of the plot/i pulled up to the corner at the end of my block/and that's when i saw this beautiful girly–girl walkin'/i picked up my car phone to perpetrate like i was talkin'" (jazzy jeff and the fresh prince) b. "for no church told me/no guru holds me/no advice/just stone/of new york" (jack kerouac) c. "you fit into me/ like a hook into an eye/a fish hook/an open eye" (margaret atwood)

Read this passage from "the pedestrian" by ray bradbury: which sentence best describes the overall impact of the setting?

What is the victorian theme in the poem “beautiful city” by alfred, lord tennyson? beautiful city, the centre and crater of european confusion, o you with your passionate shriek for the rights of an equal humanity, how often your re-volution has proven but e-volution roll’d again back on itself in the tides of a civic insanity! a. civil unrest b. revolution c. confusion d. social justice