Which of the following is the BEST objective summary of paragraph 2? A.
John A. Lomax and his son traveled around collecting song recordings and images of the blues. Their collection is housed in the American Folklife Center. It is responsible for the widespread love of the blues in America.

B.
Blues music evolved as northern cities added more instruments. Additionally, John A. Lomax and his son collected recording and images about the blues, allowing many Americans to listen to the blues. This collection is an important record of the history of blues.

C.
Due to the wider variety of instruments used, blues music in the North was better than blues in the South. Additionally, John A. Lomax and his son collected song recordings and images related to the blues. Without this collection, the blues would not be as popular as it is today.

D.
In the South, blues music was played on a harmonica and guitar. In the North, it was played on electric guitars, drums, pianos, and saxophones. John A. Lomax and his son collected 10,000 song recordings and 6,000 images. Because of them, Americans could listen to the music of exceptional artists like Muddy Waters and Huddie “Lead Belly” Ledbetter

Can you correct this paragraph? a football player once had a dream. the dream was about the queen of england. she was on a boat and was fishing. when she tried to put a worm on the fishing hook, her necklace fell into the water. a train conductor named maxwell threw popcorn in the water. the fish ate the popcorn then gave the queen her necklace. the queen said, ” you all for me get my necklace back! ” “you are welcome said the conductor and all the fish.

Write a 250- word essay in which you explain the significance of the different narrative voices in “the way to wealth.” use evidence from both texts to support your response

Follow the directions (and example) given to create your own sonnet. william shakespeare's sonnet 130 my mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun, coral is far more red, than her lips red, if snow be white, why then her breasts are dun: if hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head: i have seen roses damasked, red and white, but no such roses see i in her cheeks, and in some perfumes is there more delight, than in the breath that from my mistress reeks. i love to hear her speak, yet well i know, that music hath a far more pleasing sound: i grant i never saw a goddess go, my mistress when she walks treads on the ground. and yet by heaven i think my love as rare, as any she belied with false compare. instructions: write fourteen lines of iambic pentameter. use a sonnet rhyme scheme. use the first eight lines to set up your idea (the octave). use the last six lines to conclude your idea (sestet). (variety may be added by including a substitute foot from time to time such as the two anapests in line 3 above.) work in small groups giving each other feedback. reading the sonnet aloud allows you to hear the words and rhythms of the lines. generate questions that will clarify the use of words and forms. for example: was the idea of the sonnet presented in the first eight lines? how was sound used to enhance the meaning of the sonnet?