Read the excerpt from "To Live."

beyond desk chairs
And dull muraled halls
j. v., varsity and
setting the curve
school play and G. P.A.
textbooks
learning without
knowing

These lines help convey the message that

the lessons learned in school lead to success in life.
people who focus on school can never truly know themselves.
everyday life can get in the way of self discovery.
having a busy life can put one on the path to self discovery.

Write a summary about what you have learned about interpreting literature and presenting it to an audience.

Read the passage from sugar changed the world. but there is another story as well. information about sugar spread as human knowledge expanded, as great civilizations and cultures exchanged ideas. in fact, while sugar was the direct cause of the expansion of slavery, the global connections that sugar brought about also fostered the most powerful ideas of human freedom. how do the details in this passage support the authors’ purpose? the details about the expansion of sugar inform readers about how widespread the use of sugar was. the details about human knowledge inform readers about how humans learned about sugar. the details about ideas and global connections persuade readers that sugar’s story has multiple consequences. the details about the spread of information about sugar entertain readers with stories of travel.

Around, blank character is one who changes and grows as a result of the conflict in the story.