Read the excerpt from a student’s essay.
Working to go to the Grove City Music Festival is a good goal for the school band. Only the best school bands are invited, so this will motivate each student to practice. Also, we will have to work together to earn money, and this will improve our team spirit. Please, please let us go to the music festival!

Which is the best revision of the concluding sentence?
(A) Music festivals allow many school groups to meet and compete in a formal environment.

(B)The Grove City Music Festival is the oldest, most important band competition in the state.

(C) Many other school bands attend the music festival and say it is a lot of fun.

(D) Planning for the Grove City Music Festival will encourage the band to practice and work together.

When developing a written argument, what best explains why an author would use a graph as a source? a graph gives numeric evidence visually. a graph is easy to read and understand. a graph is colorful and will engage the reader. a graph can be used to refute an argument.

Read sentence 13 from the draft. some plants retain a great deal of their foliage through much of the spring and summer, but the leaves do not retain their green color for long. which detail would be best to add after sentence 13 to develop the topic? a. since the green color of the leaves that are bright and abundant during the warmer months will disappear by the time it is fall, it is important that the leaves are trimmed and kept freshly cut so that they will last for as long as possible. b. while the temperature outside may dictate when the fall colors of leaves appear, it is only one of many environmental factors that play a part in the changing of colors from green leaves to fall-colored leaves during the cooler months. c. if people want to enjoy the green color of leaves longer, trees should be planted where the environment is warmer and the days longer because chlorophyll in the leaves can only be manufactured and replaced with sunlight and warmth. d. the green chlorophyll normally masks the fall-colored pigments during the warmer months, but as sunlight becomes less abundant and trees become frozen, the fall colors of leaves become more visible as chlorophyll disappears.

Read this excerpt from "a visit from the goon squad."that’s when he began singing the songs he’d been writing for years underground, songs no one had ever heard, or anything like them—“eyes in my head,” “x’s and o’s,” “who’s watching hardest”—ballads of paranoia and disconnection ripped from the chest of a man you knew just by looking had never had a page or a profile or a handle or a handset, who was part of no one’s data, a guy who had lived in the cracks all these years, forgotten and full of rage, in a way that now registered as pure. untouched.how does the author use satire in this excerpt? the author is criticizing media censorship.the author is criticizing the idea of isolationism.the author is mocking society’s overuse of technology.the author is mocking man’s inability to freely express himself.