Read this sentence from paragraph 5. Reading Passage
Should You Work During the School Year?
You also have to be willing to prioritize activities by assigning
by Suff Writer Maryam Khan
them varying degrees of importance.
1 Every Tuesday and Thursday, high school junior Kayla Morrison goes to a local
Use this dictionary entry to answer the question.
café-aot to cat, but to work. For the last four months she's been working at the café
those two afternoons a week and every Saturday moming
-Ize (suffix). to cause; to become [Middle English]
2 Kayla is one of the many American high school students who work. In fact, around
What is the meaning of the word prioritize as it is used in this cighty percent of all high school students will have had some kind of job by the time
they graduate. But is working during the school year a good thing Let's find out
sentence?
Benefits
remember the priority
3 Kayla's friend Sergio Morales is a senior who works fifteen to twenty hours a week
bagging groceries. He says, "Per hour, the money doesn't sound like much, but it adds
make a priority
up. I like being able to spend it on things I want to buy. And I am also saving a little
to go to a community college next year"
4 Sergio has named an obvious benefit of working--getting money in retum for your
add to a priority
labor—yet there are other benefits too
5 A job helps you learn how to manage time. Adding a job to your already busy life
act on the priority
can be tricky. To do this successfully, you have to schedule activities and plan. You
also have to be willing to prioritize activities by Issigning them varying degrees of
importance

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.