Biometrics Are Not Better - Exit Ticket

Biometrics Are Not Better - Exit Ticket

by Angelia Brown

​Clear Targets

​Explain how individual text sections and/or features convey meaning in texts. 6.R.2.1

Analyze the central idea(s), implied or explicit, and its development. 6.R.2.2

Track the development of an argument, identifying the types of reasoning used. 6.R.2.4

Identify rhetorical appeals in text. 6.R.3.4

Apply knowledge of word relationships and reference material to determine the meanings of words and phrases. 6.V.1.3

​Classwork: 11\9

​Using the texts "Biometrics Are Not Better" and "The Biometric Body" you will create a compare and contrast graphic organizer in which you analyze the author's treatment of the same topic and explore how their different purposes for writing affect how they present their ideas.

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​In text, locate evidence to support.

Multiple Choice

When authors make a claim, what are they doing?

• A presenting an idea or their own position that they then will defend

• B describing how and why they came to believe in their idea

• C providing reasons and information to support their idea

• D using a certain kind of text structure to make their idea clear

Multiple Choice

In “Biometrics Are Not Better,” Reuben Lorre uses an advantage/disadvantage organizational pattern. His focus is on disadvantages. Which of the following best explains why he also refers to advantages?

• He wants to provide enough information to prove his point without a doubt.

• He is concerned that the disadvantages of biometrics are difficult to prove.

• He wants to presents both sides of the argument in an attempt to mislead his audience.

• He wants to show his audience that he cannot find strong reasons to support any of the advantages of biometrics.

Multiple Choice

Read this sentence from “Biometrics Are Not Better.”

Another freedom you might give up is your right to keep your ideas private. 

All of the following are meanings of the word right. Which choice states the meaning of the word in the sentence?

•  showing what is considered to be correct behavior 

• something that is due to you by law or nature

•  to put an object in its proper position

•  in directions, the opposite of left

Multiple Choice

Read this sentence. 

Corn and rice are staple foods; they make up a large part of the diets of many people around the world.  

Which of the following best describes the word staple?

 

• A. It is an adjective in this sentence, but it also can be a noun or a verb.

• B. It is an adjective, but it has more than one meaning in this sentence.

• C. It is a noun, but its meaning is used incorrectly in this sentence.

• D. It is a noun in this sentence, but it also has other meanings as a noun.

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is a multiple-meaning word?

• cactu

• cemetery

• charge

• compassion