Refer to your Expeditions in Reading book for a complete version of this text. Mary Jackson believes that science and service are equally important.

Which detail from “Mary Jackson Biography” best supports this idea?

(A) She completes a training program that allows her to move from mathematician to engineer.

(B) Mary helps youngsters build their own wind tunnel and use it to conduct experiments.

(C) She enjoys working with numbers and graduates with degrees in math and physical sciences.

(D) Mary works from home when her son is born and later works as a bookkeeper.

Give an example of one of the choices from the question above. explain what makes your example fit into this classification. use complete sentences, proper grammar, spelling and capitalization.

Read the excerpt from "mother tongue." lately, i’ve been giving more thought to the kind of english my mother speaks. like others, i have described it to people as “broken” or “fractured” english. but i wince when i say that. it has always bothered me that i can think of no other way to describe it other than “broken,” as if it were damaged and needed to be fixed, as if it lacked a certain wholeness and soundness. what best supports the inference that tan believes nonstandard english is no less valid than standard english? tan spends a lot of time thinking about her mother’s “fractured” english. tan has trouble thinking of descriptive words when she is writing. tan’s american education makes it difficult for her to understand her mother. tan winces when she describes her mother’s english as “broken.”

What does the passage most clearly suggest about kiowa values