What must a reader do when summarizing a text? Choose three correct answers.
Read the claim. The way to improve education is to divide schools by gender, so that males and females are taught separately. Which sentence provides the best supporting evidence for the claim?
Read this prompt. Create a multimedia presentation about curfew laws for teenagers. Use research and evidence to support your opinion. Use persuasive techniques and a variety of visual aids in your presentation. Which is an effective claim for this prompt?
Which sentence should be revised to include commas to set off a nonrestrictive element?
Read the passage from A Princess of Mars. While Sola was away I took occasion to examine more minutely the room in which I found myself captive. The mural painting depicted scenes of rare and wonderful beauty; mountains, rivers, lake, ocean, meadow, trees and flowers, winding roadways, sun-kissed gardens—scenes which might have portrayed earthly views but for the different colorings of the vegetation. The work had evidently been wrought by a master hand, so subtle the atmosphere, so perfect the technique; yet nowhere was there a representation of a living animal, either human or brute, by which I could guess at the likeness of these other and perhaps extinct denizens of Mars. Based on the passage, the reader can conclude that A Princess of Mars is a fantasy because it
Read the chapter title from How to Live on Twenty-Four Hours a Day . CONTROLLING THE MIND The author includes the title as a way to
Read the passage from How to Live on Twenty-Four Hours a Day . Bring it back by the scruff of the neck. Ere you have reached the station you will have brought it back about forty times. Do not despair. Continue. Keep it up. Which revision uses signal words to clarify the sequence of events for readers?
Read the passage from How to Live Twenty-Four Hours a Day. "What? I am to cultivate my mind in the street, on the platform, in the train, and in the crowded street again?” Precisely. Nothing simpler! Which phrase most helps the reader conclude that the author’s purpose is to persuade?
Read the passage from "Optimism.” My life was without past or future; death, the pessimist would say, "a consummation devoutly to be wished. ” But a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living. Night fled before the day of thought, and love and joy and hope came up in a passion of obedience to knowledge. How does Keller use evidence to address the underlined counterclaim?
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