Your school board is considering adding an extra break in the fall of the school year. While this would give students a two-week break during October, students
would then need to go to school an extra two weeks at the end of the school
year.
What do you think about having a fall break? Write a persuasive essay in support
of your position to give to your principal. Make sure your write at least two
paragraphs and include your position and supporting reasons.
• Think about what you will write before you begin writing.
• State your opinion clearly and give two or more reasons to support your
opinion.
The paragraphs should include at least three complete sentences.
Check your writing for correct grammar, capital letters, punctuation, and
spelling

Read the passage from sugar changed the world. sugar is a taste we all want, a taste we all crave. people throughout the planet everywhere have been willing to do anything, anything at all, to get that touch of sweetness. we even know exactly how thrilling it was to taste sugar for the first time. when the lewis and clark expedition met up with the shoshone, who had little previous contact with old world products, sacagawea gave a tiny piece of sugar to a chief. he loved it, saying it was "the best thing he had ever tasted." sugar created a hunger, a need, which swept from one corner of the world to another, bringing the most terrible misery and destruction, but then, too, the most inspiring ideas of liberty. sugar changed the world. we begin that story with a man who could never know enough. how does the conclusion of the prologue support the authors’ purpose? select two options. it introduces the topic that will be addressed next. it provides information about the authors. it states why the topic is relevant to readers. it cites sources the authors used in the text. it explains how the authors came to study the subject.