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Who is Ms. Hanrahan's favorite singer?
Taylor Swift
I went to the store with Jessica. We bought lots of spicy chips. I ate too many and got sick.
This passage is written using which point of view?
1. first person
What is one way to figure out the meaning of a word you do not know?
Use context clues.
What should you identify when reading the title?
Define main idea.
The central point or key message that an author is trying to convey in a piece of writing, essentially summarizing what the text is mostly about.
What day of the week does Christmas fall on this year?
Wednesday
Which point of view is the rarest?
2. second person
Read the following sentence, what does the word skeptical mean?
Despite the overwhelming evidence, the scientist remained resolutely skeptical, unwilling to alter his long-held theories
The scientist was not sure.
What is the purpose of subheadings?
To help us know what smaller sections of the reading will be about.
What is the main idea expressed in the passage?
Speculation about the earth’s crust has a special edge of urgency in California, which sits on the San Andreas fault, the world’s most famous and respected fracture zone. Not surprisingly, it was scientist at the California Institute of Technology, Charles F. Richter, who invented the Richer scale used to measure earthquakes. Seismic activity in California is being constantly monitored and mapped. Seismometers register many thousands of small earthquakes every year, and computers instantly calculate the location, depth, and magnitude of an earthquake. Laser distance-ranging networks can detect changes of length, indicating change in crustal stress, accurate to about half an inch in 20 miles. Satellite measurements of crustal blocks are improving, and California seismologists believe they may in time be precise enough to allow earthquake prediction.
a. The Richter scale was invented in California.
B. Computers provide a variety of information about earthquakes.
c. A great deal of attention is paid to earthquake activity in California.
d. Earthquake prediction will be possible in the future.
c. A great deal of attention is paid to earthquake activity in California.
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Define author's purpose.
The reason or intention behind why an author wrote a particular piece of writing,
What is the best meaning of "exuberant" as used in the following paragraph:
Victory donuts — as those exuberant, rubber-burning celebrations have come to be known — might be ubiquitous in auto racing now, but they were not common in Nascar until 1998. That is when Dale Earnhardt artfully used his spinning tires to carve a “3”— his car’s famous number — in the grass between the track and the pit lane after his first, and only, Daytona 500 victory.
a. crowded
b. flammable
c. frightening
d. enthusiastic
d. enthusiastic
I recently read a story:
A young girl is in the kitchen with her mother and they’re about to cook a pot roast, using a recipe that’s been handed down from one generation to another. The first step is to cut the ends off the roast. The young girl wants to know why. The mother tells her “It’s just tradition.” She’s unsatisfied with that answer, so when she visits her grandma a week later, she asks her the same question. “It’s tradition,” her grandma says. “That’s the way my mother always did it.” So after all this, the girl gets a chance to visit her great-grandmother. She’s excited about putting the question to Grammie and so, even before she’s taken her coat off she asks: “Grammie, why cut the ends off the roast first before cooking it?” Her great-grandmother looks at her and smiles, saying, “When I first wrote the recipe, my pan was too small to fit the entire roast.”
What is the purpose of this paragraph?
a. to describe the significance of family traditions
b. to show why some traditions are very dangerous
c. to compare traditions to a cherished family recipe
d. to explain that many traditions are relatively meaningless
What is the main idea of the following paragraphs.
You might have a "messy" friend or family member. You can't help but sigh at the chaos of their room — clean and dirty laundry mixed together. Odds are it'll be difficult to walk two feet without encountering an empty chip bag. Gross? Yes. Bad? Not necessarily.
As a stereotypically "messy" person myself, I've received my own share of scorn. Living in a boarding school, I'm obligated to keep my room nice and tidy, ready for visitors and as a model to underclassmen. Monday room inspections are the norm, and faculty members have sometimes passively, sometimes aggressively, urged my roommate and me to clean up. For these purposes, I used to harbor a 24 x 24 x 24 cardboard box in which I'd stuff everything on Monday mornings and empty it out later that evening. Now, I just throw everything downstairs into the communal storage. Out of sight, out of mind.
What is the main idea of paragraphs 1 and 2?
a. Messy people are generally accepted by others.
b. Messy people tend to be judged negatively by others.
c. Messy people create dangerous conditions for others.
d. Messy people are often less successful at boarding school.
b. Messy people tend to be judged negatively by others.
Where did Ms. Hanrahan go to college. (2 correct answers)
Sauk Valley Community College, Illinois State University
Read the following paragraph:
Rosa Parks is one of the most well-known women in the Civil Rights Movement. She is most famous for refusing to give up her seat to a white passenger on a bus. Her arrest led to the historic Montgomery Bus Boycott. However, little is known about the fact that Rosa Parks was also involved in civil rights activism for years before that day, and after her release from prison she continued to fight and inspire youth to do the same
The author uses the words "fight" and "inspire" when describing Rosa Parks. What do these words suggest about how the author views Rosa Parks.
a. He admires her.
b. He is critical of her.
c. He is curious of about her.
d. He thinks she is unimportant.
a. He admires her.
Use the following sentence to figure out the meaning of the word ubiquitous:
Victory donuts — as those exuberant, rubber-burning celebrations have come to be known — might be ubiquitous in auto racing now, but they were not common in Nascar until 1998.
routine/normal
Max Kelmon, 13, has his own little version of a man cave in Palo Alto, Calif. Behind the family kitchen in a converted garage, he has an Xbox, a big-screen TV, headphones and a microphone. There’s an old couch covered in a sheet. And that couch where he parks himself, surrounded by boxes and Christmas lights, is one of Max’s favorite places on the planet.
From that couch, he connects to friends all over the globe — and he spends hours, pretty much every day, honing his skills in Call of Duty.
What is the purpose of paragraphs 1 and 2?
a. to compare teenage gamers to adult gamers
b. to describe the experience of a teenage gamer
c. to list the steps involved in becoming a gamer
d. to ask questions about the lives of teenage gamers
b. to describe the experience of a teenage gamer
What is the main idea of this paragraph?
As much judgment as we get for our clutter, research has shown that messiness can be a sign of creativity and openness. In the NYT article "It's Not 'Mess.' It's Creativity," Kathleen D. Vohs' study of messiness serves as a rare champion for us less-than-neat people. In her study, she gathered a group of subjects in a tidy room and another in a messy room. When each subject had to choose between a "classic" or "new" smoothie on a fake menu, the subjects in the tidy room chose "classic" while subjects in the messy room chose the "new" smoothies. This shows that "people greatly preferred convention4 in the tidy room and novelty in the messy room." In addition, Vohs revealed that messy people were more creative. So, what does this mean?
Messy people are more creative.
What is the fourth planet away from the Sun?
Mars
How do you analyze an author's point of view?
By looking at their word choice, the use of figurative language, the research and statistics that they provide.
What does the word "obliging" reveal about Jeff Gordon's perspective on victory donuts?
But although the donut may be the most recognizable postrace tradition for winners, that does not necessarily mean fast driving translates into beautiful celebratory spins. Jeff Gordon, now a Nascar analyst on Fox, won 93 Cup races during his Hall of Fame career but said he was never all that good at doing postrace donuts — obliging only because fans would have been “let down and disappointed” if he didn’t.Question 2
He only did the victory donuts because the fans expected him to do it and would have been let down if he didn't.
Define text structure.
The way an author organizes information within a piece of writing.
Question: What is the main idea of the passage?
Basketball was invented in 1891 by a physical education instructor in Springfield, Massachusetts, by the name of James Naismith. Because of the terrible weather in winter, his physical education students were indoors rather than outdoors. They really did not like the idea of boring, repetitive exercises and preferred the excitement and challenge of a game. Naismith figured out a team sport that could be played indoors on a gymnasium floor, that involved a lot of running, that kept all team members involved, and that did not allow the tackling and physical contact of American-style football.
a. The life of James Naismith.
b. The history of sports.
c. Physical education and exercise.
d. The origins of basketball.
D. The origins of basketball.