Your class has been discussing whether receiving prizes for doing well at school is a good idea. Here are some comments from your classmates:

I’d work really hard to win one.

Prizes are fair because everyone has the same chance of winning.

I feel bad because I never win any prizes.

There are better ways of getting students to work hard.

Write an article for your teacher, giving your views.

The comments above may give you some ideas, and you can also use some ideas of your own.

When i was young enough to still spend a long time buttoning my shoes in the morning, i'd listen toward the hall: daddy upstairs was shaving, in the bathroom, and mother downstairs was frying the bacon. they would begin whispering back and forth to each other up and down the stairwell. my father would whistle his phrase, my mother would try to whistle, then hum hers backi drew my buttonhook in and out and listened to it -know it was "the merry widow." the difference was, their song almost floated with laughter. how different from the record, which growled from the beginning, as if the victrola were only slowly being wound up. they kept it running between them, up and down the stairs where i was now just about ready to run clattering down and show them my shoes. what is the effect of the parallelism used in the above excerpt? it establishes the rhythm of a duet to echo the song. it expresses the same ideas. it mirrors opposite ideas. it is a paradox.

If the court issues an injunction against the school's rule, will the petitioning students be glad or upset?

Which modifier could be used to make a comparison? first identical entirely talented