"Look at you," Mrs. Jameson said, when I told her how I'd remembered that story from English class, "making use of those 'stu---' stories from English class. Now all you have to do is write your own because your friends aren't going to believe how English class saved your life!"

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The last paragraph of the story is best summarized by which of the following statements?
A.
Mrs. Jameson thinks the stories English teachers assign students to read are stupid.
B.
Mrs. Jameson compliments Josh on his reading and encourages him to write.
C.
Mrs. Jameson tells Josh that his friends are not good because they will think he lies.
D.
Neither Mrs. Jameson nor Josh has any respect for fiction or the power of stories.

quite an interesting way to teach topic sentences, because the answer to this question is the best definition of a topic sentence that one can present, it is as if answering the questions taught you how to do it, this is some real teaching, it is terribly well-done.

the topic sentence in this paragraph is:

topic sentences writers stay on track and keep a paragraph from becoming an aimless collection of sentences about an idea.

which incidentally tells you what a topic sentence should be.

the eye wink at the hand; yet let that be / which the eye fears, when it is done, to see.

18≥1.5x

then you're going to want to divide 18 by 1.5. this equals 12. so the answer would be 12.

aka, you can buy 12 peppers, at most.