You are an investigative reporter. Here is your job as that reporter: you are to compose 20 questions and ask the scholars at school to answer these questions regarding distance learning and the academics (academics refer to lessons, work assigned by your teachers). The questions must be challenging. Challenging means that these questions must be powerful and creative. Your questions should relate to whether the scholars show improvement academically with distance learning or do they believe that face-to-face-classroom learning is better for them academically.

Read this excerpt from "the all-american slurp." i pulled the strings out of my stalk. z-z-zip, z-z-zip. my brother followed suit. z-z-zip, z-z-zip. to my left, my parents were taking care of their own stalks. z-z-zip, z-z-zip, z-z-zip. suddenly i realized that there was dead silence except for our zipping. looking up, i saw that the eyes of everyone in the room were on our family. mr. and mrs. gleason, their daughter meg, who was my friend, and their neighbors the badels—they were all staring at us as we busily pulled the strings of our celery. what story element does the author develop in this excerpt? a) lot details about the party b) characterization of the lins c) characterization of the gleasons d) setting details about the gleasons’ house