Help needed! Refer to the Newsela article “Issue Overview: Should the Descendants of Slaves Get Reparations?”

According to the article, how do opponents of reparations make distinctions between groups that have received reparations in the past and the descendants of enslaved people who seek them today?

A. Past recipients suffered serious injustices; the descendants of enslaved people have suffered no real injustices.

B. Past recipients did not receive cash payouts; the descendants of enslaved people will accept no other form of reparations.

C. Victims who received reparations in the past suffered the injustices firsthand; the descendants of enslaved people did not.

D. Victims who received reparations in the past were paid by corporations; the descendants of enslaved people are seeking them from governments.

When a text is organized according to what happened first in the story in time order, this is known as what kind of structure?

In which sentence is the word minnows used correctly?

Read the excerpts from “take the tortillas out of your poetry” and “speaking arabic.” my friend had concluded that if he took his language and culture out of his poetry, he stood a better chance of receiving a fellowship. he took out his native language, the poetic patois of our reality, the rich mixture of spanish, english, pachuco and street talk which we know so well. in other words, he took the tortillas out of his poetry, which is to say he took the soul out of his poetry. at a neighborhood fair in texas, somewhere between the german oom-pah sausage stand and the mexican gorditas booth, i overheard a young man say to his friend, “i wish i had a heritage. sometimes i feel—so lonely for one.” and the tall american trees were dangling their thick branches right down over his head. which best states how the structures of both excerpts engage the reader? they employ statistical evidence. they employ figurative language. they employ supporting quotes. they employ an authoritative tone.