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A is a statement that helps to explain or justify a point of view, or .
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Authors of informational text usually write to convey a central idea or a about a
specific topic. They then develop and refine those reasons with details, examples, and other kinds of
.
A) Drag and drop the words into the correct locations to complete the sentences. (1 point)
reason topic claim fact
evidence claim speculation fact
specific topic. They then develop and refine those reasons with details, examples, and other kinds of
.
A) Drag and drop the words into the correct locations to complete the sentences. (1 point)
reason topic claim fact
evidence claim speculation fact
Answer
"Disappearing Ohio
Butterflies Affects All
Insects"
by Vicky Stein
For my 11th birthday, I received a perfect, weird,
road-trip amusement: a book filled with pictures and
descriptions to help kids decode the splatters of
insects that smacked into the front of a moving
vehicle. Whether that sounds like macabre fun or
makes you grumble about keeping the windshield
clean, a steep decline in reported bug splatters in
recent years should actually make us worried,
entomologists and ecologists say.
In a new study published Tuesday in PLOS ONE, a
group of researchers analyzed one of the rare data
sets that tracks butterfly abundance, taken from 21
years of volunteer surveys in Ohio. They found an
average population decline of 2 percent per year,
which means that over the course of the study, Ohio
lost more than a third of its butterfly population.
Some species of butterflies showed no change in
abundance, however, and a few others actually
became more common.
“Not everything is going to decline in exactly the
same way,” said Corrie Moreau, an entomologist
and evolutionary biologist from Cornell University
who was not involved in the new research. “But we
are seeing, in this study and others, that insects are
in a rapid fall.”
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A) Use the excerpt from “Butterflies are
disappearing in Ohio. Here’s what that
means for insects everywhere” to answer the
question.
What main claim does the author make in the
passage? (1 point)
People dislike having to clean their
windshields.
Butterfly populations are declining.
Some butterfly populations are stable.
A study about butterflies was recently
published.
Butterflies Affects All
Insects"
by Vicky Stein
For my 11th birthday, I received a perfect, weird,
road-trip amusement: a book filled with pictures and
descriptions to help kids decode the splatters of
insects that smacked into the front of a moving
vehicle. Whether that sounds like macabre fun or
makes you grumble about keeping the windshield
clean, a steep decline in reported bug splatters in
recent years should actually make us worried,
entomologists and ecologists say.
In a new study published Tuesday in PLOS ONE, a
group of researchers analyzed one of the rare data
sets that tracks butterfly abundance, taken from 21
years of volunteer surveys in Ohio. They found an
average population decline of 2 percent per year,
which means that over the course of the study, Ohio
lost more than a third of its butterfly population.
Some species of butterflies showed no change in
abundance, however, and a few others actually
became more common.
“Not everything is going to decline in exactly the
same way,” said Corrie Moreau, an entomologist
and evolutionary biologist from Cornell University
who was not involved in the new research. “But we
are seeing, in this study and others, that insects are
in a rapid fall.”
© NewsHour Productions LLC. All Rights Reserved.
A) Use the excerpt from “Butterflies are
disappearing in Ohio. Here’s what that
means for insects everywhere” to answer the
question.
What main claim does the author make in the
passage? (1 point)
People dislike having to clean their
windshields.
Butterfly populations are declining.
Some butterfly populations are stable.
A study about butterflies was recently
published.
Answer
"Ignaz Semmelweis
Saved Lives: Wash
Your Hands"
by Dr. Howard Markel
On this date in 1850, a prickly Hungarian
obstetrician named Ignaz Semmelweis stepped up
to the podium of the Vienna Medical Society’s
lecture hall. It was a grand and ornately decorated
room where some of medicine’s greatest
discoveries were first announced. The evening of
May 15 would hardly be different — even if those
present (and many more who merely read about it)
did not acknowledge Semmelweis’s marvelous
discovery for several decades.
What, exactly, was the doctor’s advice to his
colleagues on that long ago night? It could be
summed up in three little words: wash your hands!
At this late date, we all expect our doctors to wash
their hands before examining us or performing an
operation in order to prevent the spread of infection.
Surprisingly, physicians did not begin to
acknowledge the lifesaving power of this simple act
until 1847
It was then that Dr. Semmelweis began exhorting
his fellow physicians at the famed Vienna General
Hospital (Allgemeines Krankenhaus) to wash up
before examining women about to deliver babies.
His plea was far more than aesthetic; it was a
matter of life and death and helped to prevent a
deadly malady known as “childbed” or puerperal
(from the Latin words for child and parent) fever.
A)
Use the passage to answer the question.
Considering the content of the entire text,
what is the author’s purpose in bolding the
two scientists’ names, Joseph Lister and
Robert Koch?
(1 point)
to emphasize the landmark scientists
who were more successful than
Semmelweis
to show how different physicians made
the same discovery as Semmelweis but
at a later time
to draw attention to the doctors and
scientists who expanded on
Semmelweis’s breakthroughs
to indicate that in the digital form of the
text there are links to more information
about these physicians
Saved Lives: Wash
Your Hands"
by Dr. Howard Markel
On this date in 1850, a prickly Hungarian
obstetrician named Ignaz Semmelweis stepped up
to the podium of the Vienna Medical Society’s
lecture hall. It was a grand and ornately decorated
room where some of medicine’s greatest
discoveries were first announced. The evening of
May 15 would hardly be different — even if those
present (and many more who merely read about it)
did not acknowledge Semmelweis’s marvelous
discovery for several decades.
What, exactly, was the doctor’s advice to his
colleagues on that long ago night? It could be
summed up in three little words: wash your hands!
At this late date, we all expect our doctors to wash
their hands before examining us or performing an
operation in order to prevent the spread of infection.
Surprisingly, physicians did not begin to
acknowledge the lifesaving power of this simple act
until 1847
It was then that Dr. Semmelweis began exhorting
his fellow physicians at the famed Vienna General
Hospital (Allgemeines Krankenhaus) to wash up
before examining women about to deliver babies.
His plea was far more than aesthetic; it was a
matter of life and death and helped to prevent a
deadly malady known as “childbed” or puerperal
(from the Latin words for child and parent) fever.
A)
Use the passage to answer the question.
Considering the content of the entire text,
what is the author’s purpose in bolding the
two scientists’ names, Joseph Lister and
Robert Koch?
(1 point)
to emphasize the landmark scientists
who were more successful than
Semmelweis
to show how different physicians made
the same discovery as Semmelweis but
at a later time
to draw attention to the doctors and
scientists who expanded on
Semmelweis’s breakthroughs
to indicate that in the digital form of the
text there are links to more information
about these physicians
Answer
"1847: Wash Your
Hands"
by Marguerite Vigliani, MD; Gale Eaton
Ignatz Semmelweis was appalled. The Vienna
hospital where he worked was world famous for its
obstetrics department, but women would rather
give birth outside on the street. It was safer.
Inside, more of them died of childbed fever,
especially if they were put in First Clinic. The two
maternity wards or clinics accepted patients on
alternate days, but whenever their babies arrived,
mothers begged to be put in Second Clinic. The
death rate there was lower.
Childbed (or puerperal) fever was a bacterial
infection common in nineteenth-century hospitals
and even after doctor-assisted home births. It tore
through the reproductive systems and blood
streams of women exhausted by childbirth. In
America, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. announced in
1843 that the disease was carried on the unwashed
hands and clothes of doctors, but he was largely
ignored.
In 1847, Semmelweis came to the same
conclusion. As assistant to Professor Johann Klein,
he was put in charge of First Clinic and found the
patients were right about it. His ward’s 1841–846
death rate was 9.92 percent, compared to 3.88
percent in Second Clinic. Was it because of
miasma? No. The two clinics were under the same
roof and shared an anteroom; all patients breathed
the same air. Overcrowding?
No. Second Clinic was more crowded. Semmelweis
ruled out one hypothesis after another.
1 of 3
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2
3
4
5
6
A)
Use the passage to answer the question.
What is the purpose of the graphic showing
“Puerperal fever, Yearly mortality rates”?
Choose two responses.
(1 point)
to show how the mortality rates at the
two clinics changed over time
to compare the mortality rates for
puerperal fever in the past to today
to compare the mortality rates for
puerperal fever to other diseases
to compare the mortality rates at the
First Clinic to the Second Clinic
to show how many total people died of
puerperal fever in the clinics
Hands"
by Marguerite Vigliani, MD; Gale Eaton
Ignatz Semmelweis was appalled. The Vienna
hospital where he worked was world famous for its
obstetrics department, but women would rather
give birth outside on the street. It was safer.
Inside, more of them died of childbed fever,
especially if they were put in First Clinic. The two
maternity wards or clinics accepted patients on
alternate days, but whenever their babies arrived,
mothers begged to be put in Second Clinic. The
death rate there was lower.
Childbed (or puerperal) fever was a bacterial
infection common in nineteenth-century hospitals
and even after doctor-assisted home births. It tore
through the reproductive systems and blood
streams of women exhausted by childbirth. In
America, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. announced in
1843 that the disease was carried on the unwashed
hands and clothes of doctors, but he was largely
ignored.
In 1847, Semmelweis came to the same
conclusion. As assistant to Professor Johann Klein,
he was put in charge of First Clinic and found the
patients were right about it. His ward’s 1841–846
death rate was 9.92 percent, compared to 3.88
percent in Second Clinic. Was it because of
miasma? No. The two clinics were under the same
roof and shared an anteroom; all patients breathed
the same air. Overcrowding?
No. Second Clinic was more crowded. Semmelweis
ruled out one hypothesis after another.
1 of 3
1
2
3
4
5
6
A)
Use the passage to answer the question.
What is the purpose of the graphic showing
“Puerperal fever, Yearly mortality rates”?
Choose two responses.
(1 point)
to show how the mortality rates at the
two clinics changed over time
to compare the mortality rates for
puerperal fever in the past to today
to compare the mortality rates for
puerperal fever to other diseases
to compare the mortality rates at the
First Clinic to the Second Clinic
to show how many total people died of
puerperal fever in the clinics
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A **claim** is a statement that helps to explain or justify a point of view, or **reason**.
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Authors of informational text usually write to convey a central idea or a **claim** about a specific topic. They then develop and refine those reasons with details, examples, and other kinds of **evidence**.
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The main claim the author makes in the passage is: **Butterfly populations are declining.**
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The author’s purpose in bolding the two scientists’ names, Joseph Lister and Robert Koch, is **to draw attention to the doctors and scientists who expanded on Semmelweis’s breakthroughs.**
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The purpose of the graphic showing “Puerperal fever, Yearly mortality rates” is:
1. **to compare the mortality rates at the First Clinic to the Second Clinic**
2. **to show how the mortality rates for puerperal fever in the past to today**
(If the graphic specifically shows historical rates in comparison to current rates; if it does not, then only the first option would apply.)
1. **to compare the mortality rates at the First Clinic to the Second Clinic**
2. **to show how the mortality rates for puerperal fever in the past to today**
(If the graphic specifically shows historical rates in comparison to current rates; if it does not, then only the first option would apply.)
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