Analyzing Interactions in a Text

Analyzing Interactions in a Text

7.RI.3

Multiple Choice

What is a cause?

• The result of something happening

• The last thing that happened

• Something that happens that leads to a reaction

Multiple Choice

What is an effect?

• Something that causes something else

• What happens because of a cause

• The first thing that happens

• Something in a game

Cause and Effect.

Jake had a test on Tuesday in a subject he had a little trouble with, and he had some free time during his evening. However, instead of studying Jake spends his time on his phone. The next day Jake takes his test but failed.

Cause and Effect.

I forgot to charge my cell phone, so it wouldn't work. Then, when I got a flat tire, I couldn't call a service station or let the principal know I'd be late.

Cause and Effect

By paying attention to relationships among factors in informational texts, it can help readers figure out how different individuals, events, and ideas influence and interact with one another.

Multiple Choice

The power to have an important effect on someone or something.

• Analyze

• Influence

• Motivation

• Examine

Multiple Choice

_______influences are anything that affects our feelings, actions, and behaviors from an outside source.

• External

• Internal

Multiple Choice

Our main ________ influences are our values, beliefs, attitude, and morals.

• External

• Internal

Open Ended

What should go in the response box? (Hint what the inventor end up doing?)

​What does the cartoon show?

It shows that a single idea influenced Urg, which led to her response. In contrast, consider an invention as complicated as the airplane. Many individuals, events, and ideas influenced the Wright brothers' thinking and responses over the years. Ultimately, their invention resulted from a series of interactions or the direct effects the factors had on interacted to result in the invention of the airplane.

What does the cartoon show?

Throughout history, important outcomes result from the interactions among individuals, events, and ideas, and informational text often explores these relationships. Good readers analyze the interactions carefully.

Note how interactions shape the course and development of later events and ideas as well as the choices individuals make.

Multiple Choice

What is a direct effects factors have on one another?

• Idea

• Interactions

• Response

• Individual

Explore how to answer this question: "What people, events, and ideas led to Muybridge's plan to photograph a horse?"

Open Ended

What is the idea that led Muybridge's response?

On your worksheet, underline any interactions that led to Muybridge's plan.

Open Ended

How did people, events, and ideas influence Muybridge's plan? Explain the interaction among the factors. Support your ideas with evidence from the text.

Draw

Read the rest of the test. Then, underline the sentence that explains what Muybridge's high-speed photograph revealed.

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, event for an instant."

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

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

• "His successful camera techniques led him to photograph other animal movements too fast for people to see."

Open Ended

Explain why the answer you chose illustrates the effect that Muybridge's photographs had on people's ideas about horses.