PLEASE HELP ASAP ,, The next question refers to Shedding Light on a Dark Day. by Robin Meriwether the paragraphs have been numbered to help you identify them more easily
Shedding Light on a Dark Day by Robin Meriwether
1. On May 19. 1780. the skies over New England tumed dark in the middle of the day For more than two hundred years New England's Dark Day had been
shrouded in mystery. Some blamed volcanoes Some suggested supernatural events Some caimed it was a sign from the heavens No one knew for certain
what happened Many thought the mystery would never be solved
2 Researchers at the University of Nisou were tas
s e They began examining trees in all surrounding areas Fire damage in a Canadian forest
finally revealed the truth Scientists looked at bumed tremos and covered that huge wedfires once raged in the mountains near Ontario The savage fames
created blankets of black smoke. The smoke d on the atmosphere, darkening the New England skies hundreds of miles away
A student attempting to identity the main idea of paragraph two wrote meowing sentence
When researchers at the University of Missoun
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mountains near Ontario darkened the New England st
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ning areas fire damage in a Canadian forest revealed that huge wildfires in the
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Which sentence best describes the student's seen
The student's sentence does not include enough information from the paragraph
The student's sentence leaves out too many important details from the paragraph
The students sentence perfectly and properly captures the main idea of the paragraph
The students sentence shows the main idea but does not paraphrase the author's words