1. Alexis wants to improve the supporting details in the second paragraph of a previous draft of her informational essay. How ca
n she rewrite the underlined sentence to provide more support for her focus on how the narrator changes?
The narrator in Judith Ortiz Cofer's short story "Volar" is transformed by an imaginary journey. At night, she dreams of flying like a superhero.
In her dream, she changes. She flies around her city looking "inside the homes of people who interested me." The narrator's youthful dreams
help her cope with and, for a time, transform reality, an ability her mother lacks.
A. In her dream, she jumps out of her "Fifty-story-high window into the black lake of the sky."
B. In her dream, she sees her family's landlord counting his money and scatters it by blowing a little puff of my super-breath into his fireplace."
C. The narrator notes, "I could more or less program my Supergirl dreams by focusing on the object of my current obsession."
D. In her dream, she magically changes from a kid 'with tight curls" and "skinny arms and legs" into a powerful superhero with sleek "golden" hait,
<span>Angela
and Veronica could not be lured into conformity: they preferred to think and
act independently rather than do everything the group said or did. Conformity
by definition is to be the same or similar with people’s behavior or thoughts.</span>
