Unit 7 Week 2

Unit 7 Week 2

Multiple Choice

Who is “I” in this essay? Whose ideas are presented in this essay?

• The reader

• The author

• Greg Heffley

Multiple Choice

How does the use of plastic bottles waste natural resources?

• Plastic bottles are made from oil, a resource that we need for other things

• plastic bottles are full of water that we drink

• Plastic bottles waste natural resources because if there are too many the sun wont shine.

Multiple Choice

How does the author support the idea that plastic contributes to garbage on earth?

• The author says one direction hates plastic so we shoudn't use it

• the author says that most people won't see the garbage first hand

• the evidence about the five gyres in the worlds oceans support the idea that a lot of plastic end up as garbage on earths surface

Multiple Choice

What does the author mean by “out of sight, out of mind” ?

• if you don't see it you won't care about it

• if you close your eyes you can shut off your mind

• if you hide from it, it will make you go crazy

Multiple Choice

Look at the small photo. What is the purpose of the line that connects the small photo to the large photo?

• the line is real and those pieces are floating off of the boat

• they are so you can zoom in on the boat and see it better

• the author just wanted to draw lines

Open Ended

What happens when you throw a stone in the water? How does this help you understand the author’s purpose?