Daniel, Daphne, Dexter, Dirk, and Dorcas are students at Flighing High, which offers an unusually diversified program in music and athletics. Each student monopolizes an instrument in the school orchestra (bass harpsichord, Chinese gong, coloratura accordion, hunting horn, and hurdy-gurdy) and has earned an athletic letter (in chariot-racing, javelin-throwing, marathon unicycling, parachute jumping, and racqueteering).

When the full orchestra played for the Honors Assembly, Daphne and the chariot racer were both settled on stage ahead of time. The unicyclist and the hurdy-gurdy player got to their instruments just in time to start the opening medley, which had to proceed without the hunting horn. When Dorcas finally clambered on stage in mid-medley, she upset three of the musicians by lurching into the Chinese gong during a rest, tripping over Dirk's feet, and knocking over the parachute jumper's music.

Dexter, undisturbed by Dorcas's entrance, grinned smugly at the javelin throwing musician, who had been the first to arrive on stage. The embarrassed coloratura accordion player (who doesn't know how to ride a unicycle) glared vengefully at Dorcas. Can you match the students with their instruments and athletic letters?

in the short story the slip-over sweater by jesse stuart, the main character and narrator shan is friends with grace, an intelligent girl he has known since childhood and with whom he used to be in love.

at the beginning of the story, shan believes he’s no longer in love with grace, but loves jo-anne instead. in order to buy a slip-over sweater and have jo-anne wear it so that the other students would know she loved him too, shan takes a loan at the bank.

while jo-anne is wearing shan’s sweater, his friend grace starts to wear another popular boy’s one, roy’s sweater. because of that, the other students begin to pay attention to grace and compliment her perseverance and effort. they admire her for walking 5 miles to school every day, despite the weather, and still getting the best grades. shan, who knows all of that for a fact, says, as the narrator, ‘and i knew she had the durability and the toughness of a storm-battered mountain oak.’ he compares his friend’s strength – not only physical, but also of character – to an oak tree, whose wood is known for being sturdy.

as the story goes on, shan changes his behavior out of concern for the debt he has to pay at the bank. his new girlfriend jo-anne never asks him what is wrong nor offers any sort of . instead, she breaks up with shan for not being as fun as she thought he was supposed to be. grace, however, not only asks about shan’s problem, but him make the money he needs. shan can’t but notice how different the girls are and what a wonderful person grace is.   even though he used to find jo-anne prettier at the beginning of the story, he now says, ‘grace was as beautiful as our mountain was in april, prettier than a blossom of wild phlox or a mountain daisy.’ his comparing grace to a mountain or something that exists on a mountain (such as a mountain oak or daisy) certainly has important meaning since shan loves the mountain and everything about it and he knows the mountain thoroughly. shan also loves and knows grace as completely as he does the mountain.

a) if everyone could run, jump and throw like isabela, we would have the best team in the state.

the answer would be plantations