Read the passage.

(1) It is important to understand how necessary it is to participate in a sport. (2) The American Pediatrics Association notes that teens who participate in organized sports have better heart rates and lower instances of illness than teens who do not play a sport (Fredrickson 2018). (3) Teens who play a sport report having better grades and better management. (4) Sports can also help improve teens’ confidence and self-worth.

How does the in-text citation in sentence 2 support the thesis of the passage?

by explaining why teens need regular exercise and a healthy diet
by suggesting a resource for information about healthy teen heart rates
by including additional information about why teens like to participate in sports
by providing a way to confirm that this fact about teen heart rates and exercise is accurate

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assignment

analyzing characters

respond to the following questions in one paragraph for each. use specific examples from the text to support your responses.

1. there is a set of twins on the island named sam and eric. however, when describing them, golding regularly refers to them as samneric. how does this way of describing the twins relate to their behavior and the way that readers understand their characters? what examples of their behavior readers see that samneric is really the appropriate way to refer to them?

2. as the boys set out to search for the beast, ralph allows jack to lead the way, and he sinks to the back of the pack, " to have escaped responsibility for a time." what does this moment lead you to infer about ralph and about his feelings about being the group’s leader? what does this moment foreshadow?

3. while part of the party searching for the beast, simon realizes that the notion of the beast that the other boys have does not make sense. a beast sitting atop a mountain with claws, a beast who did not leave tracks, could have easily caught the twins. simon has a different picture of the beast: "there rose before his inward sight the picture of a human at once heroic and sick." how does this picture relate to the beast that samneric saw? how does it relate to what simon said earlier about the beast being "only us"?

no plagarism

me

it’s either d.) or a.) but i’m pretty it’s d.)

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