Read the following excerpt from The Call of the Wild and answer the question that follows. …and in this fashion Buck romped through his convalescence and into a new existence. In the excerpt above, the "new existence" that is mentioned is one of . boredom and isolation happiness and peace hardship and pain community and shared labor

either online or traditional classroom can work for students. which is better will depend on students and teacher. students may have trouble following a lesson in classroom while they can study at their own pace online. other students may have trouble staying focus on their own in online classes. teachers are more used to classroom teaching but they may also be more worry about their jobs teaching online classes and work harder.

rites of passage are occasions that mark significant moments of a person's life, such as puberty, marriage, having children and death.

in “the bass, the river, and shelia mant,” the fourteen year-old narrator asks a girl out. he takes sheila for a date to the cinema by boat. after sheila says she thinks fishing is stupid, the narrator hides his fishing rod and misses a big bass catch, which he later regrets.

in gary soto's poem "oranges," a twelve year-old boy goes on a first date with a girl. he picks her up at her house and they walk to the drugstore. he buys her a chocolate. finally they hold hands, which they release then in order to unwrap the chocolate and peel the orange.