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Question 1

Refer to your Who Is Sonia Sotomayor? book for a complete version of this text.

Part A

What is a main idea of Chapter 7?

Sonia has trouble choosing between working as a judge or running for public office.
Despite all her experience, Sonia finds she is uncomfortable in her role as a judge.
Sonia earns a reputation as a fair and capable judge with her ruling in the baseball strike case.
As judge with experience, Sonia requires little time to consider both sides of a case before ruling.

Question 2

Part B

Which detail from the text best supports the answer to Part A?

“She was so nervous, her knees knocked together.”
“Some people thought Judge Sotomayor would take days or weeks to decide the case.”
“He asked the mayor of New York to put Sonia on a committee that looked at how money was spent in political campaigns.”
“That meant she didn’t need any spring training—or practice—to do her job well.”

i believe the answer is thesis, reasons, evidence, counterclaim, conclusion

d. the two authors are in awe of nature; their experiences, reveal that time in nature can change people.

explanation:

dioneo just might be like one of your friends. he is a good looking guy that can say whatever he want and get away with it. he's brings life because he can sing and play the lute. he is also dangerous because he can convince you to do anything for him because his wit is so sharp, you can not resist. dioneo is determined to take the next logical step and initiate a small campaign for freedom of speech. he does this by begging to be released from telling stories that conform to the daily theme. then, during his own time, he chooses a themes that are scandalous and he gets the response he expects.

yes it did. that's been proven time and again. i used to be an elementary school teacher myself, and i worked with thousands of kids with cerebral palsy across the nation and in canada. what i observed was that children with dyslexia were struggling to read and learn. it was a serious issue that impacted teachers all over the country, but it was so often ignored and denied.

and children with disabilities – children who have learning disabilities – they got to spend a lot of time reading in a classroom.

i could not believe there was never any kind of conversation in my school about how to provide more opportunities for students with disabilities. the education system was still looking for ways to keep the pressure on children's teachers to improve their grades, that they have to be teachers who were in the grade for eight years, and they weren't even being evaluated.

so why weren't parents or guardians concerned about whether their kids were being by this system, if they could not see their kids in a classroom that they could improve? why couldn't you say, "i think you need to improve your reading skills," right? and they certainly believed it when i pointed it out to them. it doesn't matter if you said, "you need to go to an optometry class, or to a teacher's camp