Look around your own classroom, you will see hardworking, focused students, and you may also find a few students who are not interested in anything to do with class or school. They just come to class and fill space without caring about what is going on. They check out of the classroom, even though they are still at their desk or a lab table. There may be some reasons for this behavior such as family influence, peer influence, and just generally being a person experiencing life between the ages of 13 and 18. Well, it's actually pretty normal behavior. One of the influences on academic engagement is your own family. If your parents are interested in your academic life and have the time to do so, you are more likely to be interested in academics too. Generally, when parents or caregivers are not interested in the success or failure of their children, the child will not care about school either and may perform poorly just because he or she doesn't really care. Your fellow students can have an impact too. Some kids may say “I'm too cool to care about school.” If you think they are cool because of their attitude about school and follow the same path, you will quickly stop caring about school too. When I was hanging out with some troublesome kids in ninth grade, a favorite teacher of mine warned me that “birds of a feather flock together.” She was reminding me to get back on track and stay focused. Teenagers may even check out due to a biological reason. The brain's thinking skills are not fully developed until the age of twenty-five, so you may not care about what's going on in the classroom as a fifteen year-old but you might when you are older. The conclusion is missing. Write a concluding paragraph for this essay.

Read the excerpt from the war of the worlds.beyond the pit stood the little wedge of people with the white flag at its apex, arrested by these phenomena, a little knot of small vertical black shapes upon the black ground. as the green smoke arose, their faces flashed out pallid green, and faded again as it vanished. then slowly the hissing passed into a humming, into a long, loud, droning noise. slowly a humped shape rose out of the pit, and the ghost of a beam of light seemed to flicker out from it.forthwith flashes of actual flame, a bright glare leaping from one to another, sprang from the scattered group of men. it was as if some invisible jet impinged upon them and flashed into white flame. it was as if each man were suddenly and momentarily turned to fire.then, by the light of their own destruction, i saw them staggering and falling, and their supporters turning to run.which options accurately describe how the author develops the plot in the excerpt? (select all that apply.)the war of the worldsthe narrator does not react at first as he watches the men with the flag and hears the sounds in the pit. his inaction decreases the tension in the plot because the narrator is simply standing by.the narrator does not react at first as he watches the men with the flag and hears the sounds in the pit. his inaction keeps the tension steadily increasing as the narrator comes to realize the men are being killed.the narrator is distracted by his own observations of the men with the white flag and the humming sound, so he doesn't react as quickly as he should when the men are killed, thus extending the tension in the plot.the narrator is attentive to the men with the white flag and the humming sound, so he immediately understands what has happened when the men are killed, increasing the tension in the plot.