Think about the stories Writing an informative essay about Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, Esperanza Rising, and Wonder. What important lesson can a teen or preteen learn from each story? Write an introduction about today's teens and preteens and how the stories could create change in them. Write a separate paragraph for each story and how or what a teen can learn from the story. The conclusion should bring the essay to an end about teens and change and the effect that literature can have on teens.

Take the following paragraph and write two separate paragraphs based on it. be sure to properly cite both parenthetically (don’t worry about a works cited) using this: (henderson). 1.) the first paragraph should contain a direct quote from the provided paragraph (the paragraph below). 2.) the second paragraph should contain a paraphrase of the provided information (the paragraph below). trees are in that they provide clean air. trees take in harmful gases from the air such as carbon dioxide, which is what people exhale from their lungs, and turn it into oxygen, which is what we inhale. they complete this process through photosynthesis, which requires carbon dioxide and then releases oxygen. without trees acting as nature's natural filter, the air would quickly become unbreathable to humans.