“did you hear? ” said jenna in a whisper. “blake is coming to the dance on thursday! isn’t that exciting, erica? ” the girls’ eyes turned at once to erica as she felt her palms begin to sweat. “what? oh, blake? um . . i guess that’s interesting. i mean, who cares, really? i don’t care,” said erica, her face crimson in strained nonchalance. a. erica doesn’t like blake. b. erica has a crush on blake. c. blake doesn’t like jenna. d. blake has a crush on erica.

Read the passage from sugar changed the world. sugar is a taste we all want, a taste we all crave. people throughout the planet everywhere have been willing to do anything, anything at all, to get that touch of sweetness. we even know exactly how thrilling it was to taste sugar for the first time. when the lewis and clark expedition met up with the shoshone, who had little previous contact with old world products, sacagawea gave a tiny piece of sugar to a chief. he loved it, saying it was "the best thing he had ever tasted." sugar created a hunger, a need, which swept from one corner of the world to another, bringing the most terrible misery and destruction, but then, too, the most inspiring ideas of liberty. sugar changed the world. we begin that story with a man who could never know enough. how does the conclusion of the prologue support the authors’ purpose? select two options. it introduces the topic that will be addressed next. it provides information about the authors. it states why the topic is relevant to readers. it cites sources the authors used in the text. it explains how the authors came to study the subject.

Choose the word that best describes the relationship between mini and her father at the beginning of the story. a. distant b. silly c. loving d. uncommunicative

Which elements does strong narrative writing always contain? check all that apply a connection to an outline a series of steps a clear point of view a set of directions a description of events