Text Structure and Purpose
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- 1The following text is from Srimati Svarna Kumari Devi's 1894 novel The Fatal Garland (translated by A. Christina Albers in 1910). Shakti is walking near a riverbank that she visiteEasy · Craft and Structure
- 2Researchers have found a nearly 164,000-year-old molar from a member of the archaic human species known as Denisovans in a cave in Laos, suggesting that Denisovans lived in a widerEasy · Craft and Structure
- 3Historians Tiya Miles and Roy E. Finkenbine have both documented the assistance Indigenous peoples gave to Black freedom seekers leaving the South before the US Civil War. Much of Easy · Craft and Structure
- 4In 2007, computer scientist Luis von Ahn was working on converting printed books into a digital format. He found that some words were distorted enough that digital scanners couldn'Easy · Craft and Structure
- 5Composer Florence Price won first place for her score Symphony in E Minor at the 1932 Wanamaker Foundation Awards. The piece was performed the following year by the Chicago SymphonEasy · Craft and Structure
- 6Some bird species don't raise their own chicks. Instead, adult females lay their eggs in other nests, next to another bird species' own eggs. Female cuckoos have been seen quickly Easy · Craft and Structure
- 7The following text is adapted from Louisa May Alcott's 1869 novel An Old-Fashioned Girl. Polly, a teenager, is visiting her friend Fanny. Fanny's friends did not interest Polly muEasy · Craft and Structure
- 8San Francisco is known for the colorful murals painted on many of its buildings. The densest collection of murals is found on Balmy Alley in the Mission District neighborhood. In tEasy · Craft and Structure
- 9The following text is from Georgia Douglas Johnson's 1922 poem "Benediction." Go forth, my son, Winged by my heart's desire! Great reaches, yet unknown, Await For your possession.Easy · Craft and Structure
- 10The following text is adapted from Oscar Wilde's 1897 nonfiction work De Profundis. People whose desire is solely for self-realisation never know where they are going. They can'tEasy · Craft and Structure
- 11In most building demolitions, the building materials are destroyed and sent to landfills. City officials in Portland, Oregon, wanted to reduce this waste. The officials passed a laEasy · Craft and Structure
- 12The following text is from Holly Goldberg Sloan's 2017 novel Short. More than two years ago my parents bought a piano from some people who were moving to Utah. Mom and Dad gave iEasy · Craft and Structure
- 13The following text is adapted from Charles Chesnutt's 1899 short story "Mars Jeems's Nightmare." The narrator and his wife have recently moved to the southern United States, and JuEasy · Craft and Structure
- 14Jackie Ormes's Torchy Brown in Dixie to Harlem (1937–38) was the first comic strip by a Black woman to appear in a widely read newspaper. The strip tells the story of Torchy, a youEasy · Craft and Structure
- 15Streams and rivers carry soil and rocks from one location to another. But there is another way for these geological materials to move. Scientists call this process "aeolian transpoEasy · Craft and Structure
- 16Many films from the early 1900s have been lost. These losses include several films by the first wave of Black women filmmakers. We know about these lost movies only from small piecEasy · Craft and Structure
- 17Hiroshi Senju is known worldwide for his paintings of waterfalls. These paintings are large and tend not to show the entire waterfall. Instead, Senju focuses on just the point wherEasy · Craft and Structure
- 18In 1801, a Blackfoot chief named Ac Ko Mok Ki drew a finely detailed map of the Upper Missouri region. This work demonstrates a vast amount of topographic knowledge, as the map feaEasy · Craft and Structure
- 19In many agricultural environments, the banks of streams are kept forested to protect water quality, but it's been unclear what effects these forests may have on stream biodiversityEasy · Craft and Structure
- 20Genetic studies have led researchers to suggest that turtles are most closely related to the group that includes modern crocodiles. But studies of fossils have suggested instead thEasy · Craft and Structure