Vocabulary
Based on line 17, what does "oriented to" most nearly mean?
What is inclined toward?
What is the primary purpose of lines 1 through 6?
What is to introduce Cassidy Sokolis and demonstrate her extreme sleep challenges?
What is the name of the literary device used when the author compares the circadian rhythm to a conductor and the body's organs to an orchestra? (39)
What is metaphor?
What skill is question 3 asking (Author's Word Choice, Characterization, Tone, Vocabulary, Writing Strategy, Recall) and how do you know?
What is vocabulary?
Which line helps you to answer question 7?
What is 65 "stress on the body that may undermine health" or 67-68 "social jet lag significantly increase the probability of belonging to the group of overweight participants"?
What does the term "chronotype" refer to in this passage? (15, 16,28, 68, 76)
What is a person's natural, inborn preference for sleeping and waking times?
What is the purpose of lines 40 through 44, where Philip Gehrman is quoted?
What is to emphasize the critical importance of circadian rhythms to all life forms?
In line 59, Kat Park says "When I wake up in the morning, it's like I'm fighting horse tranquilizers." What literary device is being used here?
What is simile?
Which line helps you to answer question 3?
What is "people who like to sleep between 1 am and 9 am" (17)?
What skill is question 8 asking (Author's Word Choice, Characterization, Tone, Vocabulary, Writing Strategy, Recall) and how do you know?
What is recall because the answer is in the text?
In line 64, the author introduces the term "social jet lag." What does this phrase suggest about the experience of people with delayed sleep phases?
What is a feeling of being out of sync with the world, similar to jet lag from traveling?
Why does the author include the statistics in lines 29 through 35 about the percentage of people with different sleep phases?
What is to show that Sokolis's condition is extremely rare and to provide context for understanding chronotypes?
The phrase "The early bird catches the worm" in line 77 is an example of what type of expression that reflects society's values?
What is an idiom or cliche?
What skill is question 6 asking (Author's Word Choice, Characterization, Tone, Vocabulary, Writing Strategy, Recall) and how do you know?
What is author's word choice because it is asking how lines 50-54 function within the passage?
Which line helps you to answer question 8?
What is "getting an official diagnosis can help lift the burden from people on a different clock"?
Define "precursor" as it is used in line 72 when discussing insulin resistance.
What is something that comes before or predicts another occurrence?
What function do lines 66 through 75 serve in the overall argument of the text?
What is to provide scientific evidence that social jet lag has serious health consequences?
How does the author use Cassidy Sokolis's personal story as a literary device throughout the text?
What is an anecdote or case study?
Which line helps you to answer question 6?
What is line 49 "everything the circadian rhythm controls is delayed"
What skill is question 10 asking (Author's Word Choice, Characterization, Tone, Vocabulary, Writing Strategy, Recall) and how do you know?
What is author's word choice because it is asking how the author developed the text?
Explain how the term "bell curve" (line 12) helps readers understand the distribution of different chronotypes in the population.
What is a visual representation showing that most people fall in the middle of sleep preferences, with fewer people at the extremes?
Explain the purpose of the final section titled "Toward a 'chronotype acceptance' movement" (lines 76-82) in relation to the rest of the passage.
What is to shift from explaining the problem to suggesting a potential solution and advocating for social change?
What effect does the author create by opening the article with Cassidy Sokolis's personal story before introducing scientific research?
What is an emotional connection (or using a hook/anecdote to engage readers)?
What skill is question 7 asking (Author's Word Choice, Characterization, Tone, Vocabulary, Writing Strategy, Recall) and how do you know?
What is author's word choice because it is asking what the phrase "social jetlag" does within the passage?
Which line helps you to answer question 10?
What is line 30 "another 40 percent are either slightly morning people or slightly evening people" or line 71 "a 2015 study tracking the sleep of 447 middle-aged adults for a week also picked up a worrisome pattern"?