What steps best a reader determine the central idea of a text? select three options. distinguishing between key details and minor details analyzing the organizational structure of the text analyzing extra commentary in each paragraph citing evidence from the text to support the conclusion restating the most important points in the text in one's own words

Who might be the main characters in a world parents type of creation story? a. a turtle and a raven b. a higher power and a human c. the sky and the earth d. the spirits of humans

Marcy is running for student body president. which sentence in this excerpt from her campaign speech uses parallel structure? hi, i’m marcy! many of you know me from your ninth grade classes. i’m running for student body president because i know i can make a positive difference for you, my fellow students, and for the school. i think i will make a good president because i am honest, trustworthy, and i’m behaving responsibly. i will set a good example for the school. i have many plans for the student council, such as making the council more organized, to ensure everyone has a voice, and i’ll be managing meetings more efficiently. i will take your suggestions into consideration and try to implement as many as possible. i will convince the school board to install vending machines with healthier snacks in the school cafeteria and ensuring that they review the cafeteria lunch menu to include healthier meal options. a healthy student body is a happy student body! i also plan to organize more school dances and give my fellow students more opportunities to interact socially.

Metamorphosis by frank kafka one morning, when gregor samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a horrible vermin. he lay on his armor-like back, and if he lifted his head a little he could see his brown belly, slightly domed and divided by arches into stiff sections. the bedding was hardly able to cover it and seemed ready to slide off any moment. his many legs, pitifully thin compared with the size of the rest of him, waved about as he looked. “what’s happened to me? ” he thought. it wasn’t a dream. gregor then turned to look out the window at the dull weather. drops of rain could be heard hitting the pane, which made him feel quite sad. “how about if i sleep a little bit longer and forget all this nonsense”, he thought, but that was something he was unable to do because he was used to sleeping on his right, and in his present state couldn’t get into that position. however hard he threw himself onto his right, he always rolled back to where he was. he must have tried it a hundred times, shut his eyes so that he wouldn’t have to look at the floundering legs, and only stopped when he began to feel a mild, dull pain there that he had never felt before. there was a cautious knock at the door near his head. “gregor,” somebody called—it was his mother—“it’s quarter to seven. didn’t you want to go somewhere? ” gregor was shocked when he heard his own voice answering, it could hardly be recognized as the voice he had had before. as if from deep inside him, there was a painful and uncontrollable squeaking mixed in with it, the words could be made out at first but then there was a sort of echo which made them unclear. gregor had wanted to give a full answer and explain everything, but in the circumstances contented himself with saying: “yes, mother, yes, -you, i’m getting up now.” review the excerpt from the story “metamorphosis” and answer the question below: gregor wakes up to find himself transformed. in two to three sentences, describe how gregor felt about his transformation. use evidence from the text to support your an