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Read these lines from "The Railway Train" by Emily Dickinson.I like to see it lap the miles,And lick the valleys up,And stop to feed itself at tanks

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Four million tourists visit the Empire State Building each year because

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Read the excerpt from the introduction for "On Becoming an Inventor" by Dean Kamen.Invention is predominantly individualistic. Everything . . . comes from the lone worker who follows the fleeting inspiration of a moment and finally does something that has not been done before.This quote is from the inventor of a three-phase motor, Nikola Tesla. It fits the description in every respect of Dean Kamen, the owner of more than one hundred patents.As a young teenager in Rockville Center, New York, one of four children, whose father was a comic book artist and his mother a schoolteacher, Dean started tinkering with sound and light boxes in his bedroom, "which caused lights to go off and on, and deafening sound to come from his radio," said his mother.Their indulgent parents allowed Dean and his older brother Barton to experiment, raising as many as one hundred live rats and to set up a workshop in their basement on Long Island. Dean stocked the basement laboratory with machinery to help create new audio/visual equipment. This led to his first patent and a sizable financial reward while still in high school.

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Anya read this paragraph in a book about winter sports.The first ice skates were made with animal bones that people used to slide over frozen lakes and rivers. Ice-skating has become a very popular indoor and outdoor sport all over the world. It is great exercise, too. Ice-skating for thirty minutes burns over 250 calories and strengthens leg muscles. Ice-skating is a great way to spend free time.

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The participants in a good group discussion should share

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Read the excerpt from A Short Walk Around the Pyramids and through the World of Art.As we have seen, art does not have to be complicated to be wonderful. Still, art can be more complicated, often much more complicated, than the pyramids at Saqqara and Giza.Glossary:Giza – city in EgyptSaqqara – the ancient capital of Egypt

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Read the excerpt from "On Becoming an Inventor" by Dean Kamen.I decided to put his entire machine shop in our basement, but there were two problems... One, his shop wouldn't fit in our basement, and two, there was no way the lathe, weighing fifteen hundred pounds, and the milling machine, weighing two thousand pounds, could be carried into the basement. I solved this problem by hiring a contractor to dig a large hole, break open a wall of the basement, enclose the addition with concrete, and add a roof that could be used for building an outside deck to the house. I also enlarged my mother's kitchen and pantry. I now had the entire machine shop in our basement. At the time I was making enough money from my electronic devices to pay for all of this.

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Read the excerpt from "On Becoming an Inventor" by Dean Kamen.I didn't officially graduate from Worcester Polytechnic Institute until years later when I was awarded their honorary Ph.D. By then I'd created and patented many successful inventions.

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Nelson’s class is having a group discussion tomorrow. He is very nervous about speaking in front of the class, and would rather just listen to everyone else. His teacher, however, has made it very clear that everyone has to contribute.Which action is the best way for Nelson to be a good participant?

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Which question would be most effective at encouraging good discussion?

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Read this excerpt from Mayor Seth Low's speech at the Opening of the Brooklyn Bridge.Gentlemen of the Trustees—With profound satisfaction, on behalf of the City of Brooklyn, I accept the completed Bridge. Fourteen times the earth has made its great march through the heavens since the work began. The vicissitudes of fourteen years have tried the courage and the faith of engineers and of people.

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In a group discussion, a student says, "I don't think I could ever paint as well as Frida Kahlo."Which of these statements is true about this response?

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Read the excerpt from "Woman's Rights to the Suffrage."It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union. And we formed it, not to give the blessings of liberty, but to secure them; not to the half of ourselves and the half of our [descendants], but to the whole people – women as well as men. And it is a downright mockery to talk to women of their enjoyment of the blessings of liberty while they are denied the use of the only means of securing them provided by this democratic-republican government – the ballot.

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Read the excerpt from "Woman's Rights to the Suffrage."Friends and Fellow Citizens: I stand before you tonight [having been accused of] the alleged crime of having voted at the last presidential election, without having a lawful right to vote. It shall be my work this evening to prove to you that in thus voting, I not only committed no crime, but, instead, simply exercised my citizen's rights, guaranteed to me and all United States citizens by the National Constitution, beyond the power of any State to deny.

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The image shows the Nineteenth Amendment to the US Constitution, ratified in 1919.

Which text feature could the author add to "Georgia O'Keeffe: Modernist Pioneer" to help readers better understand and visualize O'Keeffe's work?

How do the subheadings in "Georgia O'Keeffe: Modernist Pioneer" help the reader better understand the text?

Read the excerpt from "Georgia O'Keeffe: Modernist Pioneer."In 1917, Stieglitz presented a solo show of O’Keeffe’s work. After a repeat success, more exhibits followed. In the summer of 1918, she left her teaching job and moved to New York to paint full time. There she became a member of a small circle of modernists who were also backed by Stieglitz. She married him six years later in 1924, and their shared vision led to a life of support for each other’s work. Over the next twenty-two years, the two of them enjoyed one of the best partnerships in art history.

Why did the author most likely include information about O'Keeffe's summers in New Mexico in "Georgia O'Keeffe: Modernist Pioneer"?

Read the excerpt from "Georgia O'Keeffe: Modernist Pioneer."After graduating, Georgia studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and the Art Students League in New York. She began by painting still lifes and received a scholarship. In spite of this award, Georgia was bored. Her paintings were too much like other works of art. She wanted to make something different, although she didn’t yet know what it was.

Read the excerpt from "Georgia O'Keeffe: Modernist Pioneer."Over the summer break of 1915, Georgia went to South Carolina to study at the Teachers College. There she studied the art theories of Arthur Dow, who was an expert in Far East art. He taught her abstract methods that were based on color, light and dark blocks, repetition, and balance. These ideas had a huge impact on her work, and she used new types of paints and other supplies rather than objects to show her feelings. It helped free her from the traditions that she found dull. Georgia later said of her teacher, "It was Arthur Dow who affected my start, who helped me to find something of my own."

Read these lines from "The Moon."The moon has a face like the clock in the hall;She shines on thieves on the garden wall,On streets and fields and harbour quays,And birdies asleep in the forks of the trees.

Read the last line from "The Moon."All love to be out by the light of the moon.

Read the lines from "The Moon."The moon has a face like the clock in the hall;She shines on thieves on the garden wall,On streets and fields and harbour quays,And birdies asleep in the forks of the trees.

Read this line from "The Moon."The moon has a face like the clock in the hall;