Read the passage that gabriel wrote for his narrative essay. once we arrived at the local pool, i looked around to see who else was there. normally, i would have found the kids frolicking and splashing in the water hilarious, but not today. they were cute, but the fact that they were half my age and swimming around like so many ducks just made me feel worse. “you nervous? ” my mom asked. i swallowed the lump in my throat. “not really,” i mumbled, trying to hide my shaking hands in my pockets. i don’t think i fooled my mom, but she didn’t comment on the fact that i looked a little green. instead, she tried to encourage me, saying, “well, i think it’s really impressive that you’re going to confront your fear of water and learn to swim.” what is the most likely reason gabriel chose to write his essay with this point of view?

Why do u think the boys care so much about being called by their nick names from the movie holes

The dogs created when they pulled the christmas tree down and started eating the candy canes.

Read the excerpt from "mother tongue." those tests were constructed around items like fill-in-the-blank sentence completion, such as “even though tom was mary thought he was ” and the correct answer always seemed to be the most bland combinations of thoughts, for example, “even though tom was foolish, mary thought he was ridiculous.” well, according to my mother, there were very few limitations as to what tom could have been and what mary might have thought of him. so i never did well on tests like that. how does tan build a central idea of her story in the excerpt? tan discusses the types of questions on achievement tests to support the idea that the tests limit students’ ability to write well. tan explains a question on a language achievement test to support the idea that the tests should include more interesting content. tan gives an example of her experience with achievement tests to support the idea that they are not always accurate measures of language ability. tan considers how her mother might answer a question on a test to support the idea that nonstandard english limits a person’s ability to communicate.