Diary Entry: After the Great Crash

What is the author's main message in the passage, and which detail most clearly illustrates that purpose?

• Purpose: to reflect

  Evidence of Purpose: I tried fixing my skates in case the pond freezes, but when I try them on, I realized I had outgrown them.

• Purpose: to reflect

  Evidence of Purpose: What I don't understand is how our country could let this happen.

• Purpose: to explain

  Evidence of Purpose: My dad says that's the fault of the stock market crash.

• Purpose: to explain

  Evidence of Purpose: But if Mr. McGuire's speculations, and the speculations of others, put my dad, and Rudy, and millions of others out of work, that's everybody's business

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CCSS.RI.6.10

CCSS.RI.7.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RI.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.5.10

Read this sentence from the selection, in which repeated words have been underlined.

The Great Crash is shaking people's faith that society is working for all of us - not just for some of us - and not against any of us.

What is the author's most likely purpose in repeating the underlined words in this sentence?

• To convey fear that society no longer works the way it should

• To convey disgust that society no longer works the way it should

• To emphasize the similarity among three different views of society's purpose

• To create a contrast between the true purpose of society and ways it can fail in that purpose

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CCSS.RI.7.9

CCSS.RI.8.6

CCSS.RI.8.9

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

Read the dictionary entry.

magnitude (MAG nih stood) n. 1. great size 2. the importance, quality of caliber of something 3. a numerical quantitative measure expressed usually as a multiple of a standard unit 4. the intensity of an earthquake represented by a number on a scale

Which definition best matches the way the word magnitude is used in paragraph 5 of the selection?

• Definition 1

• Definition 2

• Definition 3

• Definition 4

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CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

Which best identifies the mood in paragraphs 1 and 2 and the words that create it?

• Mood: gloomy

  Words That Convey Mood: freezes, outgrown, lying

• Mood: tense

  Words That Convey Mood: freezes, surly, fault

• Mood: gloomy

  Words That Convey Mood: gray, useless, bleak

• Mood: tense

  Words That Convey Mood: realized, lost, crush

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CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

What is the author's main message?

• Investor's like Mr. McGuire should be punished for the Great Crash of 1929

• Society should make sure no one ever loses a job if he or she needs one to live

• It does not matter how many people were hurt by the Great Crash of 1929

• Society should make sure it's institutions do not generally harm its members

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.9

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

Reread these rhetorical questions from paragraph 5.

When people feel they have been robbed, how much will they give? When people feel they have been shoved aside, how much will they trust?

What is the purpose most clearly served by these questions?

• To lead readers to conduct research into the stock market crash

• To reinforce the view that the stock market crash was an injustice

• To lead readers to learn more about how people see the economy

• To reinforce the view that most people think of themselves first