RI6.3 Course: Module 2 Connections (Individuals/Events/Ideas)

Multiple Choice

Which of the following best describes the purpose of understanding how key individuals, events, and ideas interact throughout a text?

• To memorize facts and details

• To understand how they connect together in paragraphs to convey meaning

• To identify the main topic only

• To focus only on illustrations

Multiple Choice

Which three key elements does RI.6.3 encourage students to analyze in informational texts?

• People, concepts/thoughts, important happenings

• Authors, readers, texts

• Events, ideas, individuals

• Facts, opinions, statistics

Multiple Select

Explain how analyzing interactions between individuals, events, and ideas can help you understand the central idea of a text.

• Analyzing interactions complicates the central idea by obscuring themes.
• Understanding interactions distracts from the main idea of the text.
• analyzing the interactions between individuals, events, and ideas helps you to see the impact an individual action has on a group of people or society

• Analyzing interactions helps you to see how paragraphs connect to each other to convey the central idea of the text

Multiple Choice

Which of the following best describes how informational texts present interactions between people, ideas, and events?

• They focus only on individual achievements.

• They show how everything affects something else through cause-and-effect relationships.

• They list facts without connections.

• They only describe events in chronological order.

Multiple Select

What are two main types of paragraph relationships found in informational texts?

• Problem and solution, chronological

• Compare and contrast, summary

• Statement and evidence, fiction vs. nonfiction

• Imagery and symbolism

Multiple Choice

Explain how an author might use connections between key ideas and events to develop a topic in an informational text.

• An author avoids connections to keep the text simple and clear.
• An author uses random ideas to distract from the main topic.
• An author focuses solely on events without linking them to ideas.
• An author uses connections between key ideas and events to clarify and deepen the understanding of a topic.

Multiple Choice

In the text about Hatshepsut, what major event happened that influenced her ideas about leadership?

• The death of her husband, Thutmose II.
• The construction of her mortuary temple.
• The rise of her son, Thutmose III.

Multiple Choice

1.How does the idea that “nerve fibres are trying to regenerate all the time” influence the development of the events described? (para. 16)

• It leads surgeons to stop attempting new

• It convinces researchers to focus only on brain injuries

• It motivates scientists to find ways to remove barriers to nerve growth

• It causes doctors to avoid using OECs in spinal repair

Multiple Choice

2. Which statement best explains the interaction between funding organizations and scientific progress in the passage?

• The organizations prevented researchers from sharing findings too early

• Their financial support made the experimental procedure possible

• The organizations required researchers to treat multiple patients at the same time

• Their involvement delayed the surgery because they requested more studies

Multiple Choice

3.What is the relationship between Daniel Nicholls’s paralysis and global research efforts?(par 12–14)

• It caused the NSIF to stop funding spinal research

• It inspired scientists around the world to compete for recognition

• It led David Nicholls to support research and share findings internationally

• It resulted in new laws restricting experimental surgery

Multiple Choice

4. How does the effect does Darek Fidyka recovery have on the scientific community (para. 18–20)

• It confirms that only one type of patient can recover

• It increases doubt about whether the surgery works

• It discourages other researchers from trying similar techniques

• It encourages global neurosurgeons to consider adopting the method

Multiple Choice

By the end of this RI 6.3 course, what should you be able to identify and explain when reading informational text?

• How authors use figurative language

• How key individuals, events, and ideas interact throughout the text to convey meaning

• How to write a narrative

• How to summarize fictional stories