Read the blog entry below and answer the question that follows:

at first i dreaded going to sixth grade camp. i was sure the food would be poisonous, i would freeze to death in my sleeping bag, and the other kids in my cabin would never talk to me. but was i wrong! in fact, it was the best week ever! i went horseback riding and participated in a ropes activity with a zip line course. after the course, i climbed to the top of a pole using only ropes and carabiner clips, and then i rappelled off the top. i even made a new best friend. oh, by the way, the food was delicious. it tasted better than my mom's! (but don't tell her.)

review the first sentence:

at first i dreaded going to sixth grade camp.

what is the connotation showing here?
the author was impatient and could not wait to get to camp.
the author was worried he/she might not enjoy camp.
the author welcomed the opportunity to go to camp.
the author was excited about going to camp.

Ead this excerpt from the introduction to wheels of change by sue macy. imagine a population imprisoned by their very clothing; the stiff corsets, heavy skirts, and voluminous petticoats that made it difficult to take a deep breath, let alone exercise. add to that the laws and social conventions that cemented a man's place as head of the household and holder of the purse strings. how suffocated women must have felt. and how liberated they must have been as they pedaled their wheels toward new horizons. why does the author include this excerpt?

How and why does king use the word redemptive to link the concepts of freedom and religious faith

Match each excerpt to the correct stanza structure. 1. it was many and many a year ago, in a kingdom by the sea, that a maiden there lived whom you may know by the name of annabel lee; and this maiden she lived with no other thought than to love and be loved by me. (from "annabel lee" by edgar allan poe) 2. o thou, new-year, delaying long, delayest the sorrow in my blood, that longs to burst a frozen bud and flood a fresher throat with song. (from "in memoriam" by alfred lord tennyson) 3. nature’s first green is gold, her hardest hue to hold. her early leaf’s a flower but only so an hour. then leaf subsides to leaf. so eden sank to grief,; so dawn goes down to day. nothing gold can stay. (from "nothing gold can stay" by robert frost) 4. at sestos hero dwelt; hero the fair, whom young apollo courted for her hair, and offered as a dower his burning throne, where she should sit for men to gaze upon. the outside of her garments were of lawn, the lining purple silk, with gilt stars drawn; (from "hero and leander" by christopher marlowe) quatrain couplet octave sestet