NO LINKS NO LINKS A group of students has proposed that the school plant a garden to
produce fresh food for cafeteria lunches. The group thinks that all
students should be required to work in the garden in order to learn
more about where food really comes from. Do you agree that helping
to grow food should be required? Write a letter to the school
newspaper supporting or opposing this proposal.
Which claim most appropriately responds to the requirements of the prompt?

A. Mountvale High School built a garden several years ago, but within only a few seasons, students and school officials had lost interest,
and the garden turned into a weedy eyesore.

B. There is no evidence to show that students who grow their own vegetables are more likely to make healthy meal choices.

C. The school should not plant a garden, because only a few students are interested in gardening and resources should be used for activities a majority of students enjoy.

D. All the students should not be required to work in the garden, because the school offers many valuable activities and students should be able to choose the ones that interest them most.

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.