Sandra is writing an argumentative essay about the effects of a new set of health guidelines from the Department of Education. She is still deciding whether she supports the guidelines. Which prewriting strategies would best help Sandra gather information for her draft? Choose two correct answers.

brainstorming a list of alternatives to the guidelines

asking various people about how the guidelines will affect them

researching how the Department of Education makes its decisions

discussing the reasons the Department of Education made the guidelines with someone who works there

generating a list of towns that have also made recent changes to their guidelines

American history (is, are) studying the american colonies.

Read the passage from sugar changed the world. sugar is a taste we all want, a taste we all crave. people throughout the planet everywhere have been willing to do anything, anything at all, to get that touch of sweetness. we even know exactly how thrilling it was to taste sugar for the first time. when the lewis and clark expedition met up with the shoshone, who had little previous contact with old world products, sacagawea gave a tiny piece of sugar to a chief. he loved it, saying it was "the best thing he had ever tasted." sugar created a hunger, a need, which swept from one corner of the world to another, bringing the most terrible misery and destruction, but then, too, the most inspiring ideas of liberty. sugar changed the world. we begin that story with a man who could never know enough. how does the conclusion of the prologue support the authors’ purpose? select two options. it introduces the topic that will be addressed next. it provides information about the authors. it states why the topic is relevant to readers. it cites sources the authors used in the text. it explains how the authors came to study the subject.

While in the capitol, peeta proves to be both an advantage and a disadvantage to squad 451. do you think peeta is more beneficial or more detrimental to the squad? why? your response should be four complete sentences or longer.