Read the excerpt from "I'm Not Thirteen Yet" by Amy Bernstein. At this point, I was lying on my back, and my head shot up when I heard the words "best friend." I squinted and saw Margaret standing above me. She extended her hand. She was ready to help me up. She grinned. From then on, I knew who my best friend was. She didn't care what age I was, and never would. To this day, we both have the framed picture of us at the bus stop that first day of camp.

What important lesson has the narrator learned?

Age is an important part of building good friendships.
Soccer can be fun, but it can also be very dangerous.
It’s worthwhile to preserve important events in photographs.
Fitting in and making friends is much easier than expected.

The harlem renaissance dawned in an era of pervasive racism and segregation. although legally "free," many african americans were still bound by ideas that had their roots in the slavery of earlier centuries. identity and freedom are important ideas presented in many of the poems from the harlem renaissance. furthermore, the values of identity and freedom are not unique to particular times and places. as hughes expresses in "dream variations," all humans want to be able to develop their identities in freedom. what role does freedom play in the poems you read in this unit? what is required of a society to enable each individual to be true to his or her identity and be free to live by that identity? write about at least three of the poems, describing how the poet uses imagery to depict freedom and identity, the lack of it, or the desire for it.

Which word best describes the mood in this sentence? lucia was aglow as she bounced into the room with stories about her summer vacation.

Write a review of the first part of american born chinese that explains your opinion on the effectiveness of two different plot elements