Read the excerpt from The Odyssey. Reaching the gate, Odysseus and the forester halted and stood outside, for harp notes came around them rippling on the air as Phemios picked out a song. Odysseus caught his companion's arm and said: "My friend, here is the beautiful place—who could mistake it?” In this excerpt, the harp’s music is a symbol of Odysseus’s patience and endurance. long journey back home. reunion with old colleagues. happiness upon returning home.

quite an interesting way to teach topic sentences, because the answer to this question is the best definition of a topic sentence that one can present, it is as if answering the questions taught you how to do it, this is some real teaching, it is terribly well-done.

the topic sentence in this paragraph is:

topic sentences writers stay on track and keep a paragraph from becoming an aimless collection of sentences about an idea.

which incidentally tells you what a topic sentence should be.

- a.) the man dies after he is unable to keep a fire lit.

at hatfield elementary school, there are 504 students in 7 classes. each class has the same number of students. what is a good estimate of the number of students in each class?

im pretty sure a would be the answer