Read the passage carefully. Cell phone use in schools is an issue. Even though 82 percent of the parents of middle-schoolers wish their children did not have cell phones in class, 55 percent of schools allow them. Eliminating cell phones from the classroom will improve students’ academic success and their ability to stay focused.

Cell phone use in school can lead to poor grades. A study of 118 college students permitted half of them to use phones, tablets, or other devices in class. The other half did not use them. The half that used electronic devices in class scored at least 5 percentage points lower than their peers on their final exam. That’s half a letter-grade difference. Middle schoolers would probably be affected even more.

Too much cell phone use can also lead to attention problems. Data show that middle schoolers with higher cell phone use have trouble paying attention. They may be tempted to look at social media when they should be doing school work.

Choose the sentence that best answers each question.

What is the author’s claim?

What is one reason the author offers to explain the claim?

What is one piece of evidence the author offers in support of the reasons for the claim?

Recommend four ways in which a person should approach conflict resolution in order to sustain healthy relationships

Plagiarism quiz read both the paragraph below and the information following it that identifies the source using the american psychological association format. then read each of the numbered statements and determine if each is plagiarized or not. circle “yes” if the statement is plagiarized, “no” if it is not, and then fix the “yes” answers). original source the presence of the taiwanese on everest was a matter of grave concern to most of the other expeditions on the mountain. there was a very real fear that the taiwanese would suffer a calamity that would compel other expeditions to come to their aid, risking further lives, to say nothing of jeopardizing the opportunity for other climbers to reach the summit. but the taiwanese were by no means the only group that seemed egregiously unqualified. camped beside us at base camp was a twenty-five-year-old norwegian climber named peter neby, who announced his intention to make a solo ascent of the southwest face, one of the peak’s most dangerous and technically demanding routes—despite the fact that his himalayan experience was limited to two ascents of neighboring island peak, a 20,274-foot bump that required little more than vigorous walking. krakauer, j. (1998). into thin air: a personal account of the mount everest disaster. new york: anchor books, 122 - 3. student samples yes 1. there was a very real fear that the taiwanese would suffer a calamity that would compel other expeditions to come to their aid(krakauer, 1998). no) 2. many climbers overestimate their abilities, as krakauer (1998) explains when he writes of peter neby, whose himalayan experience in the past “required little more than vigorous walking” (122 - 3). no 3. jon krakauer (1998) discusses other concerns besides those of unpredictable weather and his own climbing group’s capabilities. for example the existence of a taiwanese group on everest was a matter of serious unease to most everyone else on the mountain. yes/no 4. krakauer (1998) states that the taiwanese group was not the only inexpert climbers to attempt mt. everest: camped beside us at base camp was a twenty-five-year-old norwegian climber named peter neby. . [whose] himalayan experience was limited to two ascents of neighboring island peak, a 20,274-foot bump that required little more than vigorous walking (122 – 3). yes/no 5. the author asserts that the taiwanese “were by no means the only group that seemed egregiously unqualified.” yes/no 6. in his book into thin air, jon krakauer (1998) discusses many of the dangers he noted prior to his disastrous attempt to climb mt. everest in 1996. among them were encounters with other groups and individual climbers who were ill-trained and ill-equipped to handle the demands of such a climb.

In robert fosters birches what does the speaker think of when he sees birches bend left and right