Sal is in seventh grade and is struggling at school. he gets ds and fs; he never has his homework done; and he does not think he is smart. because his older brother dropped out of high school, sal has been thinking, "no one from my family ever did well at school, so neither can i." write sal a letter that describes three specific examples of tools or success strategies from this class that can him. give sal hope and tools he can use to succeed. show him that he can improve at school.

What is one thing that happened to benno harte when he and his family left france to escape the nazis?

When hamlet shows his mother a picture of king hamlet and a picture of claudius, he tells her to look at the "counterfeit presentment of two brothers." in shakespeare's day, counterfeit meant a "portrait" or "picture." what does counterfeit mean today?

Read the excerpt below from the poem "exile" by julia alvarez and answer the question that follows. i let myself lie back in deep waters, my arms out like jesus' on his cross, and instead of sinking down like i'd always done, magically, that night, i could stay up, floating out past the driveway, past the gates, in the black ford, papi grim at the wheel, winding through the back roads, stroke by difficult stroke, out on the highway, heading toward the coast. which literary device is used in the comparison between the speaker's experience of fleeing the country and floating in the ocean? i let myself lie back in deep waters, my arms out like jesus' on his cross, and instead of sinking down like i'd always done, magically, that night, i could stay up, extended metaphor symbolism simile theme