REGINA. Hi, everyone. Today we are here to make some decisions about the homecoming dance. Most importantly, we need to pick a theme and a location. I know you came prepared with suggestions and ideas, so let’s begin with location. Angel? ANGEL. So, our budget for the dance is $2,500—this includes the money we raised during the car wash last week. It will have to pay for the entertainment, the space, decorations, and refreshments. [LOLA raises her hand to be recognized.] REGINA. Yes, Lola? LOLA. I was thinking that the school gym might be the most cost-effective option. We don’t have to spend money on the venue and can put the money into the decorations instead to really transform it. I compared venues across town, and many of them would cost between $500 and $1,200 to rent for one night. DONNIE. That’s a stupid idea. Who wants to have it in the gym? How dumb and boring. We should have it at that fancy hotel downtown. How does Lola demonstrate appropriate behavior for participating in a group discussion? Check all that apply. She has set up the agenda. She takes notes while listening. She speaks in a respectful manner. She raises her hand before speaking. She came prepared for the discussion.

Read this paragraph from chapter 5 of the prince. there are, for example, the spartans and the romans. the spartans held athens and thebes, establishing there an oligarchy: nevertheless they lost them. the romans, in order to hold capua, carthage, and numantia, dismantled them, and did not lose them. they wished to hold greece as the spartans held it, making it free and permitting its laws, and did not succeed. so to hold it they were compelled to dismantle many cities in the country, for in truth there is no safe way to retain them otherwise than by ruining them. and he who becomes master of a city accustomed to freedom and does not destroy it, may expect to be destroyed by it, for in rebellion it has always the watchword of liberty and its ancient privileges as a rallying point, which neither time nor benefits will ever cause it to forget. and whatever you may do or provide against, they never forget that name or their privileges unless they are disunited or dispersed, but at every chance they immediately rally to them, as pisa after the hundred years she had been held in bondage by the florentines. what idea is stressed in the passage? the desire for liberty the establishment of an oligarchy the dismantling of an acquired state the tendency toward rebellion