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What is the main idea in the following paragraph?

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  Inventors are passionate about what they do

• Great inventors are passionate about math.

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  Charles Babbage was a math professor.

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.2

CCSS.RI.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

What supporting idea shows what it means to be passionate?

• Great inventors are passionate and love what they do.

• They dedicate themselves to a project because they’re excited about it.

• George Babbage had a passion for math and solving equations

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CCSS.RI.7.2

CCSS.RI.8.2

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

What supporting idea shows how Charles Babbage was passionate?

• He invented an early version of the computer

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  Babbage’s students at Cambridge University enjoyed math

• He invented many things in the early 1800s

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CCSS.RI.7.2

CCSS.RI.8.2

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

What is the main idea in this paragraph?

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  Inventors read a lot to find answers

• The Wright brothers invented the airplane

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  Great inventors are curious.

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.2

CCSS.RI.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

what is one supporting idea that shows what it means to be curious?

• The Wright brothers invented the airplane.

• Inventors ask questions and find answers

• Mr. Wright gave his sons a toy helicopter

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CCSS.RI.8.2

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

What is one supporting idea that shows how the Wright brothers were curious?

They lived in the early 1900s.

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  They lived in the early 1900s

• They read and asked questions.

• They played with the toy helicopter.

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CCSS.RI.8.2

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.2