Analyzing Interactions in Text

Analyzing Interactions in Text

RI.7.3: Analyze the interactions between individuals, events, and ideas in a text (e.g., how ideas influence individuals or events, or how individuals influence ideas or events).

Multiple Choice

How did the event Urg experience impact her response?

• She ignored her husband's request.

• She invented a bed to help her husband sleep.

• She invented a chair for her husband to sit on.

• She carried a rock into the cave to give her husband a place to sit.

Multiple Choice

What people, events, and ideas led to Muybridge’s plan to photograph a horse?

• People still wondered if a horse ever lifted all four hooves off the ground at the same time.

• Leland Stanford,

  former California governor, hired Muybridge to photograph his racehorse.

• Well-educated people were still asking this question at th end of the 19th century.

• Eadweard Muybridge, photographer and adventurer, put an end to years of

  speculation.

Multiple Choice

Which sentence from the text best explains why the evidence provided by Muybridge changed the public’s thinking about horses?

• “Stanford wanted to know if all four hooves of a trotting horse

  actually leave the ground, even for an instant.”

• "Muybridge set up a series of cameras in a line down the side of

  a horse track.”

• “His successful camera techniques led him to photograph other

  animal movements too fast for people to see.”

• "The photographs showed clearly that a trotting horse had all four hooves off the ground at the same time.”

Multiple Choice

In America in 1792, growing cotton was not profitable. Which sentence

from the text describes the problem as Eli Whitney understood it?

• “ . . . women and girls of the family generally did the spinning and

  weaving.”

• " . . . the process became mechanized, and new textile mills

  opened to meet the growing demand for cotton cloth.”

• “ . . . the cotton bolls contained numerous small seeds that were

  difficult and time-consuming to remove by hand.”

• “. . . a single machine was capable of cleaning and processing up

  to fifty pounds of raw cotton daily.”

Multiple Choice

Based on evidence from the text, which statement best describes how

the invention of the cotton gin influenced later events?

• Eli Whitney made huge profits from the sale of cotton gins and became famous.

• The easy removal of cotton seeds from cotton made life better for the workers.

• The cotton gin led to the growth of cotton plantations and the

  textile industry.

• Spinning wheels were no longer used due to the increase in

  cotton production.

Analyzing Interactions in the Text.

When you encounter informational texts, remember that more than one event, individual or idea can influence another event, individual or idea. Look closely to examine HOW events, ideas and individuals are connected in a text.