PART B: Which detail from the text best supports the answer to Part A?
A. "I know immediately it's Simon Shaheen, the Arab-American virtuoso violinist, an
elegant man who wears starched white shirts and black suits and plays like an
angel." (Paragraph 1)
"Condolence cards fan out on my table – kind women I haven't seen in years,
writing We care.' Everyone advises me to stay balanced, practice yoga again, eat
well, laugh out loud." (Paragraph 17)
“As a direct line to human feeling, empathic experience, genuine language and
detail, poetry is everything that headline news is not." (Paragraph 25)
"Now that I have tears in my eyes even while making baba ghanouj, our famous
eggplant dip, so what? ... There is still so much good work to do." (Paragraph 31)

Janine studies to improve her math skills

The greatest gift the sumerians gave the world was the invention of writing. the sumerians were a wealthy people. they needed some way to keep track of what they owned. they began drawing pictures. they used a reed as a pen. they drew on soft pieces of clay. the soft clay was then dried in the sun. the tablet became a permanent record. later, the sumerian drawings changed into wedge-shaped symbols. this kind of writing is called cuneiform. by putting symbols together, the sumerians could write entire sentences.

From the story " saving the children"why is nicholas winton honored today? why did jewish people in czechoslovakia want to get their children out of the country? where did nicholas winton do his work saving the children? why was it hard for winton to find refuge for the children? to confirm your understanding, write a summary of “saving the children.”(a) aside from winton, who were the interview subjects? (b) analyze what do most of the interview subjects have in common? (a) why wasn’t this story told until 50 years later? (b) infer what does this say about winton’s character? summarize how did winton finally manage to get the children out of czechoslovakia? (a) support what was the “lie” hugo meisl’s parents told hugo and his brother before they sent them away? (b) make a judgment was this the right thing to do? explain. essential question: how do we remember the past? what have you learned about the nature of heroism from reading this article?