Performance Task "Inventor Martha Coston" focuses on Martha Coston's night signal invention. The author
claims that it was Coston's "desire to provide for her family and her determination to
succeed [that] made the Coston night signals a great success." Write an essay analyzing
how the author develops and supports the claim. Use evidence from the text to support
your response.
Your writing will be scored based on the development of ideas, organization of writing,
and language conventions of grammar, usage, and mechanics.
PLEASE HELP I NEDD IT BEFORE 10 o'clock

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