The narrator in Gary Soto’s The Drive-In Movies, works extra hard by doing yard work and waxing the car for his mother so she will take him and his siblings to the drive-in movies that night. He gets his reward, but he is exhausted and falls asleep during the show. Does his hard work pay off? Which was more important: Gary’s hard work or his reward?

The local school board would like to change the school calendar so that students are in school year round. do you think this is a good idea or a bad idea? to you see which side you want to defend answer this question from both angles.

Which best expresses the irony present in this passage?

Read the excerpt from “man listening to disc.” to tommy potter for taking the time to join us on this breezy afternoon with his most unwieldy bass and to the esteemed arthur taylor who is somehow managing to navigate this crowd with his cumbersome drums. and i bow deeply to thelonious monk for figuring out a way to motorize—or whatever—his huge piano so he could be with us today. which of the following additional features would best enhance the reader’s understanding of this excerpt? a diagram showing the narrator’s route through the city a visual simulation of the man walking down the street audio samples of music by the specified musicians textbook chapters on the history of jazz musicians