What is a contradiction mentioned in the reading regarding gambling laws?

Which detail best supports the idea that the library helped the author grow intellectually?

What is an example of a minor supporting detail in paragraph 2?

How did the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests affect Juneteenth?

What is the best way to figure out a word’s denotation?

What is a potential weakness of .org websites?

The teacher calls a student’s name to step forward and receive her graded essay. The student jumps up from her desk, quickly grabs the paper from the teacher, and stands still for a moment as she looks over her marks. Slowly, she returns to her desk, where she flops into her seat and puts her head down.  What can you reasonably infer from this reading?

(1) There are times when the night sky glows with bands of color.  (2) The bands may begin as cloud shapes and then spread into a great arc across the entire sky. (3) They may fall in folds like a curtain drawn across the heavens. (4) The lights usually grow brighter, then suddenly dim. (5) During this time, the sky glows with pale yellow, pink, green, violet, blue, and red. (6) These lights are called the Aurora Borealis. (7) Some people call them the Northern Lights. (8) Scientists have been watching them for hundreds of years. (9) They are not quite sure what causes them. (10) In ancient times, people were afraid of the lights. (11) They imagined that they saw fiery dragons in the sky. (12) Some even concluded that the heavens were on fire. What is the topic of the passage?

Which of the following is the best definition of a context clue?

Which character’s argument is based mostly on emotion instead of reasoning?