Recall a learning experience from your past that was particularly meaningful to you. (It can be something that you learned in school or out of school, but it should be a time when the goal was clearly to learn something new.) Describe that learning experience--what you learned and how you learned it, and compare your experience to one of the ideas about schooling that you encountered in this lesson.

Which two characteristics are basic parts of a literary analysis essay about a play?

The true confessions of charlotte doyle and "jonah and the whale" have which theme in common?

Read the excerpt from the dark game: true spy stories from invisible ink to cia moles. yet, by the time robert e. lee surrendered to ulysses grant at appomattox, virginia, some four years later, about 620,000 soldiers had died on the battlefields, more than american battle deaths in all other wars from the revolution through the vietnam war. what is the author’s primary purpose for including this detail? to inform readers about the differences between three military conflicts to persuade readers of the seriousness of the american civil war to entertain readers with tales from behind the lines of battle to encourage readers to visit battlegrounds in appomattox, virginia