3. Which sentence from the passage best supports the idea that President Obama
thinks students must take responsibility for their own futures?

A “Now, that doesn't always mean that you have to have a perfect score on every assignment."

B "Down the road, those will be the traits that will help you succeed, as well-the traits that will lead you to invent a device that makes an iPad
look like a stone tablet."

C "Your first obligation is to make sure that you're preparing yourself
for college and career.”

D "Soon enough, you will be the ones leading our businesses and leading our
government.

Read the excerpt from the dark game: true spy stories from invisible ink to cia moles. yet, by the time robert e. lee surrendered to ulysses grant at appomattox, virginia, some four years later, about 620,000 soldiers had died on the battlefields, more than american battle deaths in all other wars from the revolution through the vietnam war. what is the author’s primary purpose for including this detail? to inform readers about the differences between three military conflicts to persuade readers of the seriousness of the american civil war to entertain readers with tales from behind the lines of battle to encourage readers to visit battlegrounds in appomattox, virginia