The Science Report Emerson walked into the gymnasium before school, tossing his backpack down on the wooden floor. “That science report took forever to write last night.” Several others agreed while Kyleesha just turned pale.

“Let’s shoot some hoops,” Tamzin suggested. Everyone stood except Kyleesha.

“I’m going to stay here,” Kyleesha said, yanking out a piece of paper from her science journal.

While playing basketball, Emerson saw Kyleesha writing furiously. “She must have forgotten to do some homework,” Emerson thought. The bell sounded and everyone grabbed their backpacks and headed to class.

In science class, Mrs. Quraishi collected their science reports and had them work on a static electricity lab. After a while, she called Kyleesha to her desk. “I looked over your report,” she said. “It lacks depth and rigor—it appears as if you rushed through it.”

“Mrs. Quraishi,” said Kyleesha worriedly, “I forgot to do it last night, so I tried to do the entire thing this morning before class.”

“Did you write the assignment in your planner yesterday in class?” asked Mrs. Quraishi.

“No,” said Kyleesha. “I just thought I would remember.”

Mrs. Quraishi patted Kyleesha gently on the back as she handed her back her report. “This one report is not a huge deal,” said Mrs. Quraishi kindly, “but we have planners for a reason—don’t you agree?”

Kyleesha nodded and returned to her seat. She pulled out her planner just as Mrs. Quraishi cleared her throat and said, “Please read chapter 8 about electromagnetism in your textbook for class tomorrow. You never know, there might be a quiz.”

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Select the correct answer.
Which detail should be included in a summary?
A.
Emerson tosses his backpack on the ground.
B.
Mrs. Quraishi has the students work with their lab groups.
C.
Mrs. Quraishi talks to Kyleesha about the quality of her report.
D.

D. Mrs. Quaraishi tallks to Kyleesha about the quality of her report.

- "there are several movements that doris lessing was associated with. first of all, communism. she pursued her communist beliefs and included them in her writing, and was also a member of several communist book clubs. she is also strongly associated with feminism, her fight for equality and women's rights.

doris lessing is the kind of writer who has followers, not just readers. they have been engaged to her chiefly because of her involvement in major problems, such as politics and woman-ism."

in the short story the slip-over sweater by jesse stuart, the main character and narrator shan is friends with grace, an intelligent girl he has known since childhood and with whom he used to be in love.

at the beginning of the story, shan believes he’s no longer in love with grace, but loves jo-anne instead. in order to buy a slip-over sweater and have jo-anne wear it so that the other students would know she loved him too, shan takes a loan at the bank.

while jo-anne is wearing shan’s sweater, his friend grace starts to wear another popular boy’s one, roy’s sweater. because of that, the other students begin to pay attention to grace and compliment her perseverance and effort. they admire her for walking 5 miles to school every day, despite the weather, and still getting the best grades. shan, who knows all of that for a fact, says, as the narrator, ‘and i knew she had the durability and the toughness of a storm-battered mountain oak.’ he compares his friend’s strength – not only physical, but also of character – to an oak tree, whose wood is known for being sturdy.

as the story goes on, shan changes his behavior out of concern for the debt he has to pay at the bank. his new girlfriend jo-anne never asks him what is wrong nor offers any sort of . instead, she breaks up with shan for not being as fun as she thought he was supposed to be. grace, however, not only asks about shan’s problem, but him make the money he needs. shan can’t but notice how different the girls are and what a wonderful person grace is.   even though he used to find jo-anne prettier at the beginning of the story, he now says, ‘grace was as beautiful as our mountain was in april, prettier than a blossom of wild phlox or a mountain daisy.’ his comparing grace to a mountain or something that exists on a mountain (such as a mountain oak or daisy) certainly has important meaning since shan loves the mountain and everything about it and he knows the mountain thoroughly. shan also loves and knows grace as completely as he does the mountain.