"Deaf Poets Society: for Writers with Disabilities"
by Corinne Segal
Making literary spaces more inclusive
This work also needs to include efforts on the part of mainstream publishers—who often host live readings, panels and workshops that build writers’ careers—to be more accessible, Katz said.
“A lot of literary events are not accessible. A lot of the time we’re not even there. We don’t show up,” Katz said. “Not because we’re not around—we definitely are. It’s that a lot of physical spaces don’t acknowledge us, or don’t think ahead of time about, ‘Oh, there might be people with disabilities who want to attend.’ ”
For many deaf people, ASL interpretation is essential to their ability to participate in an event, Katz said. Live-streaming more events, with captions, would allow more people with fatigue-related disabilities to attend from home, Johnson said.
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Use the excerpt from “Meet the Deaf Poets Society, a Digital Journal for Writers with Disabilities” to answer the question.
What is a central idea of this section?
(1 point)
Responses
Literary spaces need to be made more inclusive.
Literary spaces need to be made more inclusive.
New technologies can make literary events accessible to more people.
New technologies can make literary events accessible to more people.
Literary events include live poetry readings, live-streamed events, panels, and workshops.
Literary events include live poetry readings, live-streamed events, panels, and workshops.
All buildings need to follow the standards of the Americans With Disabilities Act.
All buildings need to follow the standards of the Americans With Disabilities Act.
Question 10
"Bias Won't Stop Young Scientist Studying Animals"
by Vicky Stein
More than 25 percent of adults in the United States identify as having a disability—some physical or cognitive condition that limits their movements, senses or activities.
That’s a huge group of people who are underrepresented in scientific breakthroughs and technological development at the professional level, said volcano geophysicist and geoscience education researcher Anita Marshall of the University of Florida.
And that lack of representation leaves science as a whole worse off.
As the world faces a climate crisis and a growing global population, we’ll need all hands on deck, Marshall said. “People with disabilities are incredible innovators. We have to figure things out on a daily basis in a world that is not built for us—that kind of innovation, in science, could be amazing. And it is amazing.”
A)Use the excerpt from “Bias Won't Stop Young Scientist Studying Animals” to answer the question.
How does the author use the last paragraph to develop and refine the central idea?(1 point)
Responses
The author’s central idea is that the lack of representation of people with disabilities leaves science worse off. The last paragraph gives reasons that people with disabilities are needed in science—because they have tremendous innovative capacities.
The author’s central idea is that the lack of representation of people with disabilities leaves science worse off. The last paragraph gives reasons that people with disabilities are needed in science—because they have tremendous innovative capacities.
The author’s central idea is that more than 25 percent of adults in the United States identify as having a disability. The last paragraph gives reasons that people who have a disability are not represented in science.
The author’s central idea is that more than 25 percent of adults in the United States identify as having a disability. The last paragraph gives reasons that people who have a disability are not represented in science.
The author’s central idea is that people with disabilities are underrepresented in scientific breakthroughs and technological development at the professional level. The last paragraph gives reasons the climate crisis and a growing global population make this problem worse.
The author’s central idea is that people with disabilities are underrepresented in scientific breakthroughs and technological development at the professional level. The last paragraph gives reasons the climate crisis and a growing global population make this problem worse.
The author’s central idea is that people with disabilities are underrepresented in scientific breakthroughs and technological development at the professional level. The last paragraph gives reasons they are likely to be better represented in the future.
The author’s central idea is that people with disabilities are underrepresented in scientific breakthroughs and technological development at the professional level. The last paragraph gives reasons they are likely to be better represented in the future.
Question 11
"Butterflies are disappearing in Ohio. Here’s what that means for insects everywhere"
by Vicky Stein
What they found
The overall numbers of butterflies in Ohio have decreased year over year for the past two decades—about 2 percent each year. When the researchers compared that rate to other long-term studies, the general decline matched the results of monitoring programs in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and Spain.
But the team wanted to understand why some species of butterflies were harder-hit than others, and why some actually increased their populations over the course of the study.
They looked to see if related species of butterflies were all doing better or worse, and did not find a pattern.
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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.
Which information is found in the section “What they found,” and which is in the section “Why this matters”? Drag each item to the correct location.(2 points)
Put responses in the correct input to answer the question. Select a response, navigate to the desired input and insert the response. Responses can be selected and inserted using the space bar, enter key, left mouse button or touchpad. Responses can also be moved by dragging with a mouse.
What they found Why this matters
Question 12
The Decameron
Giovanni Boccaccio (1313–1375) wrote The Decameron in response to the Black Plague, a deadly illness that spread throughout Europe in sporadic bursts in the mid-1300s and early 1400s. In his story, he has ten characters leave Florence, Italy, to escape the Black Plague. In the countryside, these ten people tell stories to pass the time. Each day one of them is “king” or “queen” for the day, and that person tells the story to entertain the group. Boccaccio felt the effects of the plague firsthand because it killed his stepmother.
Narrative Structure
The title of the book, The Decameron, translates to “ten days.” Ten people tell a story each for ten days, so the total number of stories is 100. Each day of storytelling ends with a song, which is a lyrical poetic form called a canzone.
The Canzone
This poetic form comes from medieval Italy and France. This form has lines that are usually eleven syllables with an end rhyme. The syllables making up the metrical foot in the line have different combinations of accented and unaccented syllables. For example, a spondee is a metrical foot with two accented syllables. A trochee is a metrical foot with an accented syllable followed by an unaccented syllable.
A)
Use the passage to answer the question
What is the heading of the section in which the reader learns about Boccaccio’ personal experience with the pandemic in Europe in the 1300s?
(1 point)
Responses
Black Plague
Black Plague
Narrative Structure
Narrative Structure
The Decameron
The Decameron
The Canzone
The Canzone
Question 13
"Butterflies are disappearing in Ohio. Here’s what that means for insects everywhere"
by Vicky Stein
A photo show some butterflies sitting on a flower.
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)
Read “Butterflies are disappearing in Ohio. Here’s what that means for insects everywhere” below to answer the question.
Which detail in the section “Why this matters” supports the main idea of the section?
(1 point)
Responses
“I think we know enough now to act,” Wepprich said.
“I think we know enough now to act,” Wepprich said.
But butterflies also act as big, flashy beautiful warning signs for environmental change.
But butterflies also act as big, flashy beautiful warning signs for environmental change.
Butterflies pollinate flowers, control plant populations by munching on leaves as caterpillars, and provide food for other insects, birds, amphibians, and mammals.
Butterflies pollinate flowers, control plant populations by munching on leaves as caterpillars, and provide food for other insects, birds, amphibians, and mammals.
“But I think of the situation as, like, death by a thousand cuts.”
“But I think of the situation as, like, death by a thousand cuts.”
Question 14
"Day We Discovered Cause of "White Death""
by Dr. Howard Markel
Never a commanding lecturer, Koch had a thin, reedy voice and tended to interject his phrases with an annoying amount of “ums” and “ers.” But on March 24, 1882, when he presented his findings at a monthly meeting of the Physiological society of Berlin, he did so with clarity and elegant logic.
A)
Use the excerpt from “The Day We Discovered the Cause of the 'White Death'”, which describes a physician in the late 1800s, to answer the question.
Which transition word in the passage indicates a comparison and contrast text structure?
(1 point)
Responses
clarity
clarity
when
when
Never
Never
But
But
Question 15
A)Imagine that it’s 5:00 p.m., and you have the ingredients for a baked chicken recipe you want to make for dinner before going to a movie that starts at 7:30 p.m. What information should you consider before beginning? Select the two correct answers.(1 point)
Responses
preparation time
preparation time
serving quantities
serving quantities
bake time
bake time
measurement cups
measurement cups
ingredient quantities
ingredient quantities
1 answer
Answers
Question 9What is a central idea of this section?
Literary spaces need to be made more inclusive.
Question 10How does the author use the last paragraph to develop and refine the central idea?
The author’s central idea is that the lack of representation of people with disabilities leaves science worse off. The last paragraph gives reasons that people with disabilities are needed in science—because they have tremendous innovative capacities.
Question 11Which information is found in the section “What they found,” and which is in the section “Why this matters”? Drag each item to the correct location.
What they found
The overall numbers of butterflies in Ohio have decreased year over year for the past two decades—about 2 percent each year.
When the researchers compared that rate to other long-term studies, the general decline matched the results of monitoring programs in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and Spain.
They looked to see if related species of butterflies were all doing better or worse, and did not find a pattern.
Why this matters
The team wanted to understand why some species of butterflies were harder-hit than others, and why some actually increased their populations over the course of the study.
Question 12What is the heading of the section in which the reader learns about Boccaccio’s personal experience with the pandemic in Europe in the 1300s?
The Decameron
Question 13Which detail in the section “Why this matters” supports the main idea of the section?
Butterflies pollinate flowers, control plant populations by munching on leaves as caterpillars, and provide food for other insects, birds, amphibians, and mammals.
Question 14Which transition word in the passage indicates a comparison and contrast text structure?
But
Question 15What information should you consider before beginning? Select the two correct answers.
preparation time
bake time
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