Cite Text Evidence Support your responses with evidence from the selection.
1. Identify What is the central idea that the author develops throughout this
essay? What key points support that central idea?
2. Summarize Why is using our five senses to understand the more complicated
aspects of the world around us a problem, according to the author?
3. Interpret The author says, "we register the world's stimuli in logarithmic rather
than linear increments." In your own words, explain what he means.
4. Analyze The author provides a brief explanation and discussion of
parapsychology. Although it may seem like a digression, it serves his larger
purpose. What function does this discussion serve?
5. Synthesize Why does the author begin the essay with a quotation by Edwin
P. Hubble and then later suggest a revision of the quotation? How do the two
versions of the quotation help shape and refine the essay's central idea?
6. Interpret Tyson writes "In modern times if the sole measure of what's out there

What is the significance of the novel's title? what is the "sweet hereafter"? a). a place you go after a tragedy takes your life b). a beautiful place the dead go, like heaven c). into the sunset, an ending that is not defined d). a dark sad place the dead go before rebirth

Fortify is a verb that means “to protect and strengthen.” a fortifications is a that means something that protects.

Read the excerpt from "mother tongue." those tests were constructed around items like fill-in-the-blank sentence completion, such as “even though tom was mary thought he was ” and the correct answer always seemed to be the most bland combinations of thoughts, for example, “even though tom was foolish, mary thought he was ridiculous.” well, according to my mother, there were very few limitations as to what tom could have been and what mary might have thought of him. so i never did well on tests like that. how does tan build a central idea of her story in the excerpt? tan discusses the types of questions on achievement tests to support the idea that the tests limit students’ ability to write well. tan explains a question on a language achievement test to support the idea that the tests should include more interesting content. tan gives an example of her experience with achievement tests to support the idea that they are not always accurate measures of language ability. tan considers how her mother might answer a question on a test to support the idea that nonstandard english limits a person’s ability to communicate.