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2. What was the goal, promise or prediction explored in the article? Who made it and why?3. What actually happened? In what ways were the goals or promises met? In what ways did they fall short?4. What obstacles or challenges were met in trying to reach the goals?5. What quote, image or detail from the…

Teva Alon, Bergen County Academies, Cresskill, N.J.: “The American Dream” by Edward Albee and “Welcome to the Era of the Post-Shopping Mall”This year, we read “The American Dream,” a satirical play by Edward Albee that explores the materialism and superficiality of American society. The characters are fully engaged in a capitalistic society and therefore exclusively…

5. How has the pandemic fostered new visibility for signing and music? Give at least one example.6. In creating Sing and Sign’s interpretation of Bach’s “St. John Passion,” Susanne Haupt said, “We didn’t want to just translate text. We wanted to make music visible.” How did Haupt, along with deaf people and a choreographer, do…

WinnerAaron Kim, 16, from Tacoma, Wash., chose an article from the Well section headlined “How to Make a Staycation Feel Like an Actual Break” and wrote:It’s late July already. But, for so much of the summer, it felt like it had not even started. Each day of my break had been so much like the…