Paraphrasing

A good paraphrase has the _____________ ___________, different words, and different word order.

• same ideas

• weird synonyms

• different ideas

"The Europeans did not consider the indigenous.... people to be civilized...."

• Portugal did not consider native people as "humans".

• People from Europe thought that native people were not as advanced as they were.

• The Europeans did not think the indigenous people to be civilized.

"Whenever you are trying to describe how quickly or slowly something occurs, you are describing a rate."

• To describe how fast something is and how slow something is to describe how a rate is.

• Whenever you try to describe things, you're always describing a rate.

• Rates are fast or slow descriptions.

"Like the conquistadors of the sixteenth century, the Europeans took the land through force."

• The real power of the conquistadors lay elsewhere, with the production of steel.

• Like the conquistadors of the 1500s, the Europeans took the land using force.

• Europeans used force to take over the land in the same way conquistadors in the 1500s did.

"To the east of the Pyrenees lie the Alps."

• The Alps are taller than the Pyrenees.

• To the east of the Pyrenees are the Alps.

• The Pyrenees are to the west of the Alps.

"A warm cup of water has really fast molecules."

• A cold cup of water has low energy

• The molecules in the warm cup of water have a lot of kinetic energy

• Fast molecules are in hot water.

"They like to swim on their back and sides and can see just as well underwater as they can above."

• Sea otters are good at floating on the water's surface, as air trapped in their fur makes them more buoyant.

• Otters love swimming, They can also see very well underwater --like how they see well on land.

• They like to swimming and they can be seen underwater by divers and other animals.

"Keeping their fur in good condition is important, so otters spend a lot of time grooming."

• Otters spend a lot of time keeping their fur clean because it is important for them.

• Otters spend a lot of time brushing their fur.

• Keeping their fur in good shape is important, so otters spend a lot of time grooming.

"They are intelligent and curious, and they are usually busy hunting, investigating, or playing with something."

• Sea Otter are smart and learn new things. They usually like to hunt small animals in rivers.

• They like to hunting and playing and something.

• Otters are smart and wonder a lot. They are hunters so they are busy most of the time.

"For the sea otter, half of each day is spent diving for food and eating it."

• Sea otters spend half of every day diving for food to eat and eating it.

• Sea otter consumes many types of prey including sea urchins, snails, clams, abalone, mussels, crabs, scallops, fish, barnacles, octopus, worms, and squid.

• Each day they like to dive for food and eat food.