Read this excerpt from a book. This book looks at the pros and cons of homeschooling from both a student and a teacher perspective. It is meant to be used to inform readers—parents, students, teachers, administrators—so that conclusions can be drawn and decisions can be made about opinions for teaching, learning, performance, and personal growth. How does the author use advantages and disadvantages to guide reader understanding? by providing a definition of "homeschooling" by providing examples of different types of schools by providing the author's opinion about homeschooling by providing the reader with a summary of the book's purpose

(1) fire extended humans’ geographical boundaries by allowing them to travel into regions that were previously too cold to explore. (2) it also kept predators away, allowing early humans to sleep securely. (3) fire, in fact, has been a significant factor in human development and progress in many ways. (4) other obvious benefits of fire are its uses in cooking and in hunting. (5) probably even more important, however, is that learning to control fire allowed people to change the very rhythm of their lives. (6) before fire, the human daily cycle coincided with the rising and setting of the sun. (7) with fire, though, humans gained time to think and talk about the day’s events and to prepare strategies for coping with tomorrow. the sentence that expresses the main idea is: (type the number of the sentence. then click “go.”)

Which statement best explains the motivation for the narrator's mother to introduce her daughter to everyone they meet? from amy tan's "rules of the game."

Which is not a controlling idea in the essay? a) average joggers b) importance of tradition eliminate c) olympic-level competitors d) fräbel-designed crystal peach