New Kid is a story about the challenges of middle school life and Jordan’s continuously evolving identities. He grapples with questions like “Who am I?”, “Why am I me?”, “What is important to me?”, and “Who will I be?” Can you identify moments in the story where Jordan seems to be wrestling with his multiple identities? Jordan is many things and his identity is not static, despite the social pressures that make it feel that way. Our own identities are multiple and evolving. In a notebook, draw a “Cultural X-Ray” of yourself, in which you label the outside of your body with aspects of your culture that are evident to others, such as language, age, ethnicity, gender, and religion, and the inside with the values and beliefs that you hold in your heart.

(1) fire extended humans’ geographical boundaries by allowing them to travel into regions that were previously too cold to explore. (2) it also kept predators away, allowing early humans to sleep securely. (3) fire, in fact, has been a significant factor in human development and progress in many ways. (4) other obvious benefits of fire are its uses in cooking and in hunting. (5) probably even more important, however, is that learning to control fire allowed people to change the very rhythm of their lives. (6) before fire, the human daily cycle coincided with the rising and setting of the sun. (7) with fire, though, humans gained time to think and talk about the day’s events and to prepare strategies for coping with tomorrow. the sentence that expresses the main idea is: (type the number of the sentence. then click “go.”)

Choose the option that includes the main claim in “the american promise”

In 250 words, discuss the ways in which the novel relates to the historical context in which it was published.