Read the passage. then, answer the questions that follow. our school’s mission statement stresses community, cooperation, and personal and intellectual growth. but one of our school’s practices—selecting a valedictorian and salutatorian each year—does not support our mission. this practice is divisive, it is unfair, it is archaic. so let’s end it now! for some students, jockeying for these positions begins when they start high school. they choose classes they can ace, as well as ap and ib courses that boost their grade-point averages, rather than ones that excite their interest or challenge them. they pay plenty and spend hours in classes that promise to raise standardized test scores. successful candidates are routinely accused of gaming the system. the formula for selecting the two “top” students is complex; selection can turn on several zeroes after a decimal point. at several schools around the country, students who lost out as valedictorian have sued. is this the kind of situation we want to encourage at our school? which of the following sentences most clearly expresses an opinion? a. our school’s mission statement stresses community, cooperation, and personal and intellectual growth. b. this practice is divisive, it is unfair, it is archaic. c. they pay plenty and spend hours in classes that promise to raise standardized test scores. d. the formula for selecting the two “top” students is complex; selection can turn on several zeroes after a decimal point.

Which is the falling action of antigone?

Which sentence in this excerpt from leo tolstoy’s the death of ivan ilyich shows the human tendency to contemplate one’s past life? "but if that is so," he said to himself, "and i am leaving this life with the consciousness that i have lost all that was given me and it is impossible to rectify it—what then? " he lay on his back and began to pass his life in review in quite a new way. in the morning when he saw first his footman, then his wife, then his daughter, and then the doctor, their every word and movement confirmed to him the awful truth that had been revealed to him during the night. in them he saw himself—all that for which he had lived—and saw clearly that it was not real at all, but a terrible and huge deception which had hidden both life and death. this consciousness intensified his physical suffering tenfold. he groaned and tossed about, and pulled at his clothing which choked and stifled him. and he hated them on that account. he was given a large dose of opium and became unconscious, but at noon his sufferings began again. he drove everybody away and tossed from side to side. his wife came to him and said: "jean, my dear, do this for me. it can't do any harm and often . healthy people often do it." he opened his eyes wide. "what? take communion? why? it's unnecessary! " she began to cry. "yes, do, my dear. i'll send for our priest. he is such a nice man." "all right. very well," he muttered. when the priest came and heard his confession, ivan ilyich was softened and seemed to feel a relief from his doubts and consequently from his sufferings, and for a moment there came a ray of hope. he again began to think of the vermiform appendix and the possibility of correcting it. he received the sacrament with tears in his eyes.

Like most of whitman's other poems, "there was a child went forth" is an example of