D. Dad
In this sentence, dad is being used as a name or proper noun. It needs to be capitalized.
The colonists wanted to be free from Britain and that's led to their decision to fight against the British rule.
The correct answer is:
To plot memorial events or experiences.
A personal experience timeline is a plot of memorial events and experiences that are used to help a writer generate a topic.
A writer could want to use an event that has caused him emotion or curiosity in the past, to generate a topic. In that case, a personal experience timeline is a tool that allows to organize the writer's past experience and discover forgotten memories.
Since a predicative nominative is the first noun after a linking verb (in this case 'is'), the correct answer is A, 'award'.