Main (Central) Ideas
What is a main idea?
What the text or paragraph is all about.
What is Closed Circuit TV?
A system of televisions where only the people who own it can see what is recorded.
What was the problem Mary Van Brittan Brown had in CCTV?
Whe worked at night and lived in a neighborhood with crime, so she was afraid someone would break in.
When were cars originally introduced?
Over 100 years ago.
How are cars and cameras similar.
They both use technology.
What is the gist of the first paragraph of CCTV?
CCTV lets homeowners see who's outside their home.
What is monitoring?
Continuous observation of something for changes.
How did Mary Van Brittan Brown solve this problem?
She created CCTV to monitor her home.
What are some changes that the timeline in Who Will Drive Us shows?
A factory in Detroit starts mass producing cars. 1901, electric starters 1911, power steering 1926, turn signals 1935, air conditioning 1939, airbags 1970, Nevada allows driverless cars on the roads 2011, Germany begins testing driverless trucks 2015.
How are both texts about innovations that solve problems?
CCTV used cameras and televisions to make a monitoring system to make people feel safe, and driverless cars help make driving safer.
What is the gist of the third paragraph of Who Will Drive Us?
Many people are fans of driverless cars, but others are not.
What is a feature?
A distinctive attribute of something.
How does Mary Van Brittan Brown's invention inspire others to create other inventions like CCTV?
Others create inventions like traffic cameras, automatic door locks, and push button alarms using her ideas.
How many years does the timeline in Who Will Drive Us cover?
114 years
What is different about both texts?
One is about home cameras and one is about driverless cars.
What is the central idea of CCTV?
Mary Van Brittan Brown invented CCTV.
What is inspired?
create (a feeling, or idea, especially a positive one) in a person.
What is the text feature on page 6, and what does it help you to understand about the text?
It's a text box and photo, it shows me what Mary Van Brittan Brown looked like, and gives me more information about her.
What are some pros about driverless cars?
They help drivers because drivers can cause crashes by making mistakes, some people who can't drive can still get places.
How are the inventors of CCTV and Driverless cars the same?
They both wanted to solve a problem.
What is the central idea of Who Will Drive Us?
Driverless cars are a new innovation that have pros and cons.
What is innovation?
When you make changes to something that already exists to make it better.
Why is CCTV so important to us today? Are there any problems it might cause?
It helps us feel safe in our home, and in our world, but it could be used in ways that are not good, by watching people in the wrong place.
What could be some problems about driverless cars?
Computers can malfunction, and cause crashes, they don't work well in certain areas, and they might take jobs from people who drive cars for work.
Do both innovations (CCTV and Driverless Cars) have things they can improve on?
Driverless cars need to improve where they can drive, if they still work in a storm, if they see animals.
CCTV can add new features like monitoring more areas, being able to call through cameras.
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