You’re writing a blog entry. Using your notes, charts, and marked-up selection, write a personal essay about how the key ideas in “With Friends Like These . . .” and in your self-selected article relate to your own friendships. (300 words) Introduce the topic and tell readers how you relate to the key ideas overall. Cite evidence from both your own experiences and the texts.

Refer to the characteristics of true friends listed in paragraph 15. Use synonyms if Rowe’s wording is too technical.

In your final paragraph, discuss how your approach toward friendship might change based on what you learned.

Stone, two or three feet thick, the door of wood and iron, a foot thick, and the iron grating which strained the light, i could not being struck with the foolishness of that institution which treated me as if i were mere flesh and blood and bones, to be locked up. i wondered that it should have concluded at length that this was the best use it could put me to, and had never thought to avail itself of my services in some way. i saw that, if there was a wall of stone between me and my townsmen, there was a still more difficult one to climb or break through before they could get to be as free as i was. i did not for a moment feel confined, and the walls seemed a great waste of stone and mortar. i felt as if i alone of all my townsmen had paid my tax. — “civil disobedience,” henry david thoreau based on this passage, how did thoreau feel about his confinement?

12 read the sentence below and answer the question that follows. why is elementary school success an indicator of graduation rates? why is this sentence not a thesis statement? it is not a debatable topic. it is a question it is an opinion it is not a fact mark this and retum

Why does the author of exploring the titanic give background information about his youth and education? to show his lifelong love for the ocean