Day 3 STAAR® Blitz Assignment

Front

How does the organizational pattern in paragraph 2 help support the author’s thesis?

Back

By explaining why a son’s education is believed to be more important than a daughter’s education

Front

What change should be made in sentence 5?

Back

Front

Why does the author include paragraph 4?

Back

To provide background information about the tension between Protestants and Catholics.

Front

What key idea about Irish immigrants do the details in paragraphs 2 and 3 support?

Back

Irish immigrants had different experiences.

Front

What is the most likely reason the author wrote this selection?

Back

To explain the reasons why Irish people immigrated to America and the discrimination they faced when they arrived.

Front

In the excerpt from Through the Eyes of Immigrants, how does the author mainly organize his ideas?

Back

He explains the waves of Irish immigration in the order they occurred.

Front

What is the most likely reason the author includes the line graph in the selection? Options: To illustrate the reasons why Irish immigrants came to the United States in each decade, To show the steady increase of Irish immigrants over the years, To explain why Irish immigration decreased in the early 1900s, To provide a visual representation of the number of Irish immigrants who came to the United States in each decade

Back

To provide a visual representation of the number of Irish immigrants who came to the United States in each decade

Front

What change should be made in sentence 2? Options: Option 1, Option 2, Option 3, Option 4

Back

Option 3

Front

Where is the most effective place to insert this idea? The author would like to add this idea to the paragraph.

Back

After sentence 3