Several teachers have proposed adding a "citizenship grade to report cards to rate students on kindness, respect, honesty, and hard work
alongside academic performance. Would you support this change?
Write a letter to your principal explaining why the school should or
should not add a citizenship grade to students' report cards.
Which claim most appropriately responds to the requirements of the prompt?
O A. Students should be graded on citizenship, because being a good
person is just as important as being smart and successful.
B. Students are far too focused on grades and need to learn that
there are more important things in the world than academic
achievement.
O C. While students should be held accountable for their behavior, it is
difficult to measure citizenship in a truly accurate way.
O D. A citizenship grade is a great idea, and our school should change
report cards to include one as soon as possible.

i would say c, admiration because the narrator related to the main character and she, too, once felt ashamed about her culture and wished to be an american girl to impress a boy. she felt admiration because her mom prepared her favorite foods when her and robert's (the guy she liked) family all came together and had a family reunion.

the present continuous is a verb tense which is mainly used to indicates that an action is in progress at the moment of speaking.  

it is formed using: person + verb to be (am/is/are) +verb + - ing form  

example: i am studying at this moment .

in addition, the present continuous is also used in order to express things that will or will not happen in the near future.

example: i am having dinner with some friends tonight.

the speaker sometimes   uses it   to express that an action is repeated and it causes irritation on the part of the speaker

example: my sister is constantly complaining about everything.

that his long years of service outweigh any faults he may have had.

he wanted to be remembered for the good things he did, one of those being when he gave up office so others would follow suit, but george washington wasn’t a man who thought he was perfect, he knew he made mistakes. he was a very talented soldier with a natural gift of tactic.