Read the short speech delivered by the leader of the school’s service club. i hope every member of the service club will join me in mentoring a third grader from dunlop elementary. nearly one-quarter of the third graders have been identified as being below grade level in reading. as volunteers, we will these students with their independent reading assignments. we will teach them how to sound out unfamiliar words and learn the meanings of those words. don’t ignore these struggling readers; an hour of your time will give them the success they deserve. which sentence from the speech includes an appeal to pathos? a. i hope every member of the service club will join me in mentoring a third grader from dunlop elementary. b. nearly one-quarter of the third graders have been identified as being below grade level in reading. c. we will teach them how to sound out unfamiliar words and learn the meanings of those words. d. don’t ignore these struggling readers; an hour of your time will give them the success they deserve.

Read the excerpt from "mother tongue." those tests were constructed around items like fill-in-the-blank sentence completion, such as “even though tom was mary thought he was ” and the correct answer always seemed to be the most bland combinations of thoughts, for example, “even though tom was foolish, mary thought he was ridiculous.” well, according to my mother, there were very few limitations as to what tom could have been and what mary might have thought of him. so i never did well on tests like that. how does tan build a central idea of her story in the excerpt? tan discusses the types of questions on achievement tests to support the idea that the tests limit students’ ability to write well. tan explains a question on a language achievement test to support the idea that the tests should include more interesting content. tan gives an example of her experience with achievement tests to support the idea that they are not always accurate measures of language ability. tan considers how her mother might answer a question on a test to support the idea that nonstandard english limits a person’s ability to communicate.