Part 3: Using Media to Extend Understanding of an Informational Text
Question 7 of 15 • DSD-CR-ELA 12-Term 4
Read the excerpt from A History of the World in 100 Objects.In the early nineteenth century Japan had been effectively closed off from the world for 200 years. It had simply opted out of the community of nations.Kings are burning somewhere,Wheels are turning somewhere,Trains are being run,Wars are being won, Things are being done In the early nineteenth century
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It gives the reader detailed information about the subject that will be discussed at length in the passage.
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It makes the reader wonder how the quotation from the poem relates to the topic of the passage.
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It interests the reader into figuring out what was happening in Japan over 200 hundred years ago.
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It makes the reader understand the cultural atmosphere in Japan in the early nineteenth century.