EGYPT WRITING PROMPT: It was very important to the Egyptians that the Pyramids be sealed for eternity. Yet the only way historians can acquire firsthand
knowledge of some aspects of Egyptian life is to enter the burial chambers. Write
three paragraphs (3-5 sentences minimum per paragraph) arguing for and against
opening the pyramids. You must make arguments for both sides. You must also
write which argument you agree with most.

Which combination would the president most likely use to convince congress to pass an economic stimulus bill?

Describe some of the developments in indian vilization that you think make this era worthy of the title "the golden age" explain what makes these developments important and valuable.

Read the excerpt from eighty years and more. until i was sixteen years old, i was a faithful student in the johnstown academy with a class of boys. though i was the only girl in the higher classes of mathematics and the languages, yet, in our plays, all the girls and boys mingled freely together. in running races, sliding downhill, and snowballing, we made no [division] of gender. true, the boys would carry the school books and pull the sleighs up hill for their favorite girls, but equality was the general basis of our school relations. i dare say the boys did not make their snowballs quite so hard when pelting the girls, nor wash their faces with the same [forcefulness] as they did each other's, but there was no public evidence of [favoritism]. which detail supports the central idea that stanton feels females and males were generally treated equally at johnstown academy? until i was sixteen years old, i was a faithful student . . i was the only girl in the higher classes of mathematics . . [t]here was no public evidence of [favoritism]. true, the boys would carry the school books . .