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(1) Homework has more negative effects on children and teenagers than positive effects. (2) Hours of schoolwork after the school day is over intrude on students’ family lives, cause unnecessary stress, and take away from time participating in other enriching activities. (3) In addition, studies show that for children below high-school age, there is no relationship between homework and how a student performs on a test, and for high-school students, the relationship is nearly insignificant. (4) Although homework might not have a major effect on test scores, some say that it teaches students other important life lessons. (5) However, no conclusive study has shown that homework improves students’ self-discipline, time-management skills, or sense of independence. (6) Therefore, schools should seriously reconsider revising homework guidelines, and teachers should only assign homework when it is truly necessary. Which sentence contains a rebuttal to the counterclaim in the paragraph? sentence 2 sentence 4 sentence 5 sentence 6

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Read the excerpt below, and then select one prompt. You will choose to write either a narrative essay or an informational response paragraph. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, excerpt By Mark Twain When Tom awoke in the morning, he wondered where he was. He sat up and rubbed his eyes and looked around. Then he comprehended. It was the cool gray dawn, and there was a delicious sense of repose and peace in the deep pervading calm and silence of the woods. Not a leaf stirred; not a sound obtruded [interrupted] upon great Nature’s meditation. Beaded dewdrops stood upon the leaves and grasses. A white layer of ashes covered the fire, and a thin blue breath of smoke rose straight into the air. Joe and Huck still slept. Now, far away in the woods a bird called; another answered; presently the hammering of a woodpecker was heard. Gradually the cool dim gray of the morning whitened, and as gradually sounds multiplied and life manifested itself. The marvel of Nature shaking off sleep and going to work unfolded itself to the musing boy. A little green worm came crawling over a dewy leaf, lifting two-thirds of his body into the air from time to time and “sniffing around,” then proceeding again—for he was measuring, Tom said; and when the worm approached him, of its own accord, he sat as still as a stone, with his hopes rising and falling, by turns, as the creature still came toward him or seemed inclined to go elsewhere; and when at last it considered a painful moment with its curved body in the air and then came decisively down upon Tom’s leg and began a journey over him, his whole heart was glad …. Now a procession of ants appeared, from nowhere in particular, and went about their labors; one struggled manfully by with a dead spider five times as big as itself in its arms, and lugged it straight up a tree-trunk. A brown spotted lady-bug climbed the dizzy height of a grass blade, and Tom bent down close to it and said, “Lady-bug, lady-bug, fly away home, your house is on fire, your children’s alone,” and she took wing and went off to see about it—which did not surprise the boy, for he knew of old that this insect was credulous [trusting] about conflagrations [fires], and he had practised upon its simplicity more than once. A tumblebug came next, heaving sturdily at its ball, and Tom touched the creature, to see it shut its legs against its body and pretend to be dead. The birds were fairly rioting by this time. A catbird, the Northern mocker, lit in a tree over Tom’s head, and trilled out her imitations of her neighbors in a rapture of enjoyment; then a shrill jay swept down, a flash of blue flame, and stopped on a twig almost within the boy’s reach, cocked his head to one side and eyed the strangers with a consuming curiosity; a gray squirrel and a big fellow of the “fox” kind came skurrying along, sitting up at intervals to inspect and chatter at the boys, for the wild things had probably never seen a human being before and scarcely knew whether to be afraid or not. All Nature was wide awake and stirring, now; long lances of sunlight pierced down through the dense foliage far and near, and a few butterflies came fluttering upon the scene. ———————— Select only one prompt. You will choose to write either a narrative essay or an informational response paragraph. Prompt Choice 1 (Narrative Essay) Read the prompt below and write a well-developed narrative essay. Recall a time when you observed something closely and in great detail. What was it? What did you learn? Write a narrative of your experience using descriptions that capture the mood of this event. **Be sure that your narrative has a clear beginning, middle, and end. Use your mature voice, specific details, sensory descriptions, and dialogue. Proofread your work before submitting. Prompt Choice 2 (Informational Response) Review the excerpt above. Read this sentence from the excerpt and answer the question in a well-developed paragraph. The marvel of Nature shaking off sleep and going to work unfolded itself to the musing boy. How does the author create the feeling of a “marvel”? What details, words, and descriptions from this excerpt create a sense of the marvelous? **Be sure to re-state the question in your topic sentence and use specific examples and details from the story to support your answers. Proofread your work before submitting.

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Tuesday, July 1, 1997, marked Canada Day, a national holiday. Gila and Tom Ramsey had decided to celebrate the day by taking one of the Discovery Walks for which the city was famous. Getting off the subway at the Lawrence Subway Station, the couple intended to meander through Lawrence Park, Chatsworth, Blythwood, and Sherwood Park Ravines. June had been incredibly hot and dry. The brush and undergrowth along the Don River were like tinder, ready to explode into flame at the slightest chance. In fact, there had been small fires at various places along the river in the past week. The chief of Toronto’s fire department had declared an emergency. People could no longer cook food on a grill or barbecue in the river’s rain system. Of course, some people didn’t follow the fire chief’s instructions. As Tom and Gila wandered through the ravines they could smell meat cooking on grills. “Typical!” said Tom. “As usual someone believes he’s immune to trouble What type of figurative language does the author use when describing conditions in the ravines? flashback metaphor personification simile

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