Read the scenario of a formal discussion. Mrs. Alvarez informs the student council that they will have a formal discussion about how to raise money for the local food bank. The student council includes Morgan, Lamar, Tyler, Lupe, and Leo. She tells the group to come prepared with an idea for an event that they could hold within the next month. Mrs. Alvarez tells Morgan that she will be the moderator for the discussion.

What should Lamar do to prepare for the discussion?

A. Research different ways to raise money for charity.
B. Prepare the rules for the group to follow during the discussion.
C. Ask other members of the student council about their ideas.
D. Create a list of reasons why the groups should not raise money.

(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.”)

Read this excerpt from the scarlet letter by nathaniel hawthorne and complete the sentence that follows. she had wandered, without rule or guidance, in a moral wilderness; as vast, as intricate and shadowy, as the untamed forest, amid the gloom of which they were now holding a colloquy that was to decide their fate. the author uses the point of view in the excerpt.

He now spent his days in his house, from room to room.which verb best completes the sentence?