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Pretest: Searching for Identity
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What is the central idea of this passage?
The debate has been around for a long time. Depending on whom you ask, homework is either the most important teaching tool, or it's just
meaningless work. But the truth is that homework has some benefits. First, homework helps students go over what they learned in a calm
and peaceful environment. This review helps them pinpoint their strong and weak points. It also helps them practice the concepts they
learned in school. As a result students are better prepared to understand the teacher in class.
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Homework helps teachers identify struggling students.
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Parents find that homework helps their children learn.
OC. Homework improves learning by reinforcing ideas.
OD. Teachers use homework to finish incomplete classwork.
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1. read the following excerpt from franklin d. roosevelt's "fireside chat 19":

on the other side of the picture, we must learn also to know that guerilla warfare against the germans in, let us say serbia or norway, us; that a successful russian offensive against the germans us; and that british successes on land or sea in any part of the world strengthen our hands.

remember always that germany and italy, regardless of any formal declaration of war, consider themselves at war with the united states at this moment just as much as they consider themselves at war with britain or russia. and germany puts all the other republics of the americas into the same category of enemies. the people of our sister republics of this hemisphere can be honored by that fact.  

the true goal we seek is far above and beyond the ugly field of battle. when we resort to force, as now we must, we are determined that this force shall be directed toward ultimate good as well as against immediate evil. we americans are not destroyers — we are builders.

analyze the effectiveness of this excerpt. how does it function within the speech as a whole? how does the structure of the excerpt to convey the speech's purpose and key points? support your argument with evidence from the speech. (10 points)

b. our party quickly made its way into the cave / but we failed to find our host [the cyclops] himself inside.

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