You evidently don't want to fail. You don't have to care about what you're learning, you just have to care about succeeding enough to attempt to learn. Do your homework. If you do the homework, stay after school for tutoring, you'll learn better for when the tests come around. Also try to think about your future and how important it is to you to get through high school.
Chapter 13 of The Lighting Thief is about Percy Jackson, Annabeth and Grover finally reaching their destination: St. Louis. Once they reach the Arch, at St.Louis, they encounter a monster/Chimera. Annabeth and Grover make an escape, while Percy stays behind and thinks about falling into a fire-infested-hole. He gets set on fire, but manages to also set Arch in St.Louis on fire as well. The chapter ends with Percy jumping from the top of the Arch into the Mississippi River.
C. The miners believed that they
could find gold quickly.
A noun clause is a dependent
clause acting as a noun. In this case, the noun clause begins with
"that". The introductory phrase are dependent clauses. It relies on the
subject and verb in the main clause because it doesn't have its own subject and
verb.