Georgia Coach - ELA8 Lesson 8: Cite Textual Evidence (pages 85-89)

1. Which sentence BEST summarizes paragraph 2?

• A. Apple's iPhone was the first smartphone to use touchscreen technology.
• B. Apple dominated the smartphone market when it introduced the iPhone
• C. Early versions of smartphones required a stylus, keypad, or keyboard.
• D. The smartphone market became highly competitive with the introduction of touchscreen technology.

2. What is the central idea of the passage?

• A. Smartphone technology continues to change rapidly as people develop more functions.
• B. Smartphones can be used for both business and entertainment.
• C. curiosity.
• D. intelligence

3. What text evidence supports the claim that smartphones are important to people for personal entertainment?

• A. "Touchscreen technology allowed a larger screen area because a keypad was no longer necessary."
• B. "Personal banking, including a digital camera that takes photos and records videos, and they can store these media along with digital music."
• C. "They usually include a digital camera that takes photos and records videos, and they can store these media along with digital music."
• D. "Today's smartphones combine the communication capabilities of the cell phone and the PDA, including voice calling, texting, and e-mail."

4. Which claim does the information in the passage BEST support?

• A. The market for smartphones will peak and begin to decline.
• B. Smartphones will keep changing and become more valued.
• C. Smartphones will keep changing and become more valued.
• D. New devices will replace smartphones.

5. Explain why the functions of today's smartphones would have been unthinkable of the first smartphone in the 1990s. Cite two examples from the passage as evidence.

6. What claim does the author make in the first paragraph?

• A. You should read a good history book to learn more about England.
• B. Words provide clues about the history of England and its language.
• C. The English discovered many new words by mingling.
• D. We are unsure of how

7. What claim about English does the author make in the fourth paragraph>

• A. English is heavily influenced by the early Celts.
• B. Germanic tribes pushed the Celts north and west, to Scotland, Wales, and Ireland.
• C. Modern English retains much of the Anglo-Saxon language, including its written language.
• D. The languages of the conquering Germanic tribes gave us most of our basic words today.

8. What evidence does the author provide to support the claim in the fourth paragraph?

• A. English has many words based on the Celtic language, including shamrock, plaid, and gull.
• B. Germanic tribes from Europe ventured across the North Sea in search of land and riches.
• C. Many basic words in English, such as a, and, the , is have, go, see, get, to, for, and of, are Anglo-Saxon words.
• D. The Germanic tribes pushed the Celts north and west, to Scotland, Wales, and Ireland.

9. What claim can you make based on the evidence in the sixth paragraph of the passage?

• A. The Norman
• B. irony.
• C. pun.
• D. analogy.

10. "You're no Mozart" is an example of

• A. allusion.
• B. irony.
• C. pun.
• D. analogy.