In paragraph 2, how does the author's mention of prom celebrations throughout the past century reveal our cultural values and feelings about prom?

How might a differing cultural point of view alter how someone responds to this article?

Explain how new technologies are both helping us hold on to our old traditions while also forever changing them.

What does the involvement of celebrities imply about the seriousness with which we hold prom as a rite of passage?

Generation Z (which includes this year’s graduates) has been maligned (spoken of disparagingly; critical) as a lazy and difficult generation; what evidence from the text shows that they are actually rather innovative and resilient?

Explain how the loss of prom - a communal experience - is also a communal experience?

Is this text an example of narrative, informational, or argument writing? Does the piece combine two or more of these types? Explain and use textual evidence to support your answer.

Will give if correct read the passage first of all, if someone says your dream is impossible, they’re wrong. you can’t prove that something is impossible-all you know is that [it] hasn’t been done yet. people said no one could scale mount everest, but in 1953, sir edmund hilary and tenzing norgay gazed down upon the world from its summit. people said that man could not fly, but in 1903, orville and wilbur wright made the first sustained powered flight in a heavier-than-air machine. people said, “okay, we admit that someone could climb mount everest, and we admit that man has learned to fly, but no one will ever, ever walk on the face of the moon.” if we can send three men a quarter of a million miles away and bring them home safely, is there any great task we cannot accomplish? which identifies the textual evidence that best supports the claim: the authors purpose is to persuade? a: the author shares historical information about the wright brothers. b: the author states that men have walked the moon. c: the author states that others who think your dreams are impossible are wrong. d: the author wants to know what tasks we cannot accomplish.