Read the excerpt from "Let Bindi Have the Limelight." With backup group the Crocmen, she [Bindi] performed in Los Angeles and New York, singing lively, choreographed songs about the plight of threatened wildlife. . . . "It's very cool because everyone's cheering and it feels really nice to get out there and just be me and just do what I love to do, sing and dance," Bindi said on the set of ABC's Good Morning America, one of several stops on her talk show circuit that week. "It's really hard to explain but it's a great feeling."

Readers can most likely connect this passage to their own lives by thinking about

what it is like to perform in New York.
what it is like to sing with the Crocmen.
how good it feels to be famous.

Does anyone read this story in 9th grade "when mr. pirzada came to dine"

Which of these statements is evaluative in nature a) the short passage creates a brilliant and sketch of gabriel b) resulting from the fact that gabriel is observant, he is also reflective c) the way gabriel looks at his wife shows that he is a detached onlooker d) that gabriel is observant is evident from the minute details he notices

In this excerpt from "quality" by john galsworthy, which two parts clearly indicate the literary point of view of the essay? that tenement had a certain quiet distinction; there was no sign upon its face that he made for any of the royal family—merely his own german name of gessler brothers; and in the window a few pairs of boots. i remember that it always troubled me to account for those unvarying boots in the window, for he made only what was ordered, reaching nothing down, and it seemed so inconceivable that what he made could ever have failed to fit. had he bought them to put there? that, too, seemed inconceivable. he would never have tolerated in his house leather on which he had not worked himself. besides, they were too beautiful—the pair of pumps, so inexpressibly slim, the patent leathers with cloth tops, making water come into one's mouth, the tall brown riding boots with marvellous sooty glow, as if, though new, they had been worn a hundred years. those pairs could only have been made by one who saw before him the soul of boot—so truly were they prototypes incarnating the very spirit of all foot-gear. these thoughts, of course, came to me later, though even when i was promoted to him, at the age of perhaps fourteen, some inkling haunted me of the dignity of himself and brother. for to make boots—such boots as he made—seemed to me then, and still seems to me, mysterious and wonderful.