Imagine that you are living in the era that you researched in part A. Write a three-paragraph letter to a teenager in the year 2020 describing life during the time period you chose. Be sure to include a topic sentence and a concluding sentence, correct spelling, good grammar, transitions, and, if needed, quotations from this American history website in your writing.

Read the following excerpt from life on the mississippi by mark twain. no girl could withstand his charms. he "cut out" every boy in the village. when his boat blew up at last, it diffused a tranquil contentment among us such as we had not known for months. but when he came home the next week, alive, renowned, and appeared in church all battered up and bandaged, a shining hero, stared at and wondered over by everybody, it seemed to us that the partiality of providence for an undeserving reptile had reached a point where it was open to criticism. how does twain's use of understatement serve his purpose? be sure to use specific details from the text to support your answer.

Which link would readers of this dictionary entry click if they wanted more information about the historical origins of the word language

Respect for the environment means a: loving trees and animals b: not drinking out of streams c: making as little impact as possible on wilderness areas d: only using resources that are high in supply