New Jersey NJSLA-Adaptive ELA Grade 9 Practice Questions - New Jersey Student Learning Assessments-Adaptive English Language Arts - Grade 9 Exam

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Read the passage: For weeks, Jaden rehearsed what he would say to his father, practicing the words in the bathroom mirror until they felt smooth as river stones. But when his father sat across from him at the kitchen table, eyes tired and waiting, the rehearsed speech dissolved. What came out instead was simpler: "I was hurt, Dad. But I don't want to carry it anymore." His father's shoulders dropped, not in defeat but in relief, and Jaden felt the weight he had carried for months shift between them like a passed stone. What theme does the passage suggest about forgiveness?

Forgiveness is a single dramatic event that happens all at once. Rehearsed speeches are always better than spontaneous words. Forgiveness begins when honesty replaces the armor we build around our pain. Fathers are always the ones who must apologize first.

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Forgiveness begins when honesty replaces the armor we build around our pain.

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