In paragraph 2, how does the author's mention of prom celebrations throughout the past century reveal our cultural values and feelings about prom?

How might a differing cultural point of view alter how someone responds to this article?

Explain how new technologies are both helping us hold on to our old traditions while also forever changing them.

What does the involvement of celebrities imply about the seriousness with which we hold prom as a rite of passage?

Generation Z (which includes this year’s graduates) has been maligned (spoken of disparagingly; critical) as a lazy and difficult generation; what evidence from the text shows that they are actually rather innovative and resilient?

Explain how the loss of prom - a communal experience - is also a communal experience?

Is this text an example of narrative, informational, or argument writing? Does the piece combine two or more of these types? Explain and use textual evidence to support your answer.