The correct option is A.
This is because ASCD is an educational website for educaters and learners. ASCD stands for Association for Supervision and Curriculum development. The association was formed in 1943 and its major objective is to develop innovative programs and products which will empower educators to support the success of their students.<span />
Answer:
truei spend many seconds thinking about this and I realize it's true
We can infer the following :
- Those men who gave their lives,did not die in vain""that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion-that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain (lines 18-21)""
- This war is betraying the ideals of the nation-he is saying that this war needs to come to a close.""lines 1 to 6: our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation,conceived in liberty and dedicated to the..."""
After reading the passage above, one can infer that it belongs to an article or an essay which purpose is to inform the reader about the population boom and its consequences (cause-effect writing). The writer developed the main event in the introduction of the passage and then added supporting sentences about the consequences of that main event. The population is growing in cities such as San Antonio, Phoenix, and Los Angeles and this event has serious effects on the desert environment of these cities mentioned earlier, being the most obvious one the water shortages. The reader can infer all this information thanks to the organization of the text and the words or connectors used. The organization that has been used by the writer is The Casual Chain (one effect is a cause of another effect, which in turn can become a cause of another effect, and so on) and some of the words/connectors chosen to describe the relationship of the events are “result”, “Because…,”, and “concern”.
