1. Angel B. Pérez describes many students as intent on being perfect. To what extent do his claims apply to you and to your approach to school and life? How would you describe your
personal attitude toward perfection and failure?

Which of these excerpts is most clearly an example of narrative poetry? a. “in xanadu did kubla khan/a stately pleasure dome decree…” b. “and all that’s best of dark and bright/meet in her aspect and her eyes…” c. “who can contemplate fame through clouds unfold/the star which rises…” d. “one shade the more, one ray the less/had half impaired the nameless grace…”

Besides the skull and cross bones what other shape sometimes appeared on flags flown by pirates?

What does breathless mean in the following sentence? after elizabeth won the race, she was breathless with excitement. a.was about to faint b.was not able to breathe c.was at the finish line d.was not excited