Module I: Reading and Writing

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While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes:
Truman Lowe was an American sculptor and member of the Ho-Chunk tribal nation.
Many of his best-known works employed willow saplings, which he would gather from farms.
Lowe peeled the bark and sanded the wood until it turned white.
When treated this way, the willow was both flexible and strong.
In his sculptures, he turned this willow wood into waterfalls and feathers.
The student wants to introduce Truman Lowe to an audience unfamiliar with the artist and describe the appearance of his wooden sculptures. Which choice uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?
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Sculptor and Ho-Chunk tribe member Truman Lowe worked mainly with willow saplings that he collected from farms and turned into art.
Artist Truman Lowe developed a technique for turning willow saplings into bendable and strong wood.
American artist Truman Lowe, a member of the Ho-Chunk nation, is best known for his unique sculptures of waterfalls and feathery materials made from wood.
Sculptor Truman Lowe worked with specially treated willow saplings, turning them into objects that are not recognizable as wood.
While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes:
Anthony Doerr is an American novelist, born in Ohio.
His 2014 novel All the Light We Cannot See won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
The novel interweaves two storylines that take place during World War 2—one about a blind French girl and the other about a German boy who builds radios—that come together at the end.
His latest novel, Cloud Cuckoo Land, was published in 2021.
This novel follows three storylines that are connected by an ancient Greek book.
Cloud Cuckoo Land includes narratives that occur in the past, the present, and the future.
The student wants to emphasize a similarity between the two novels. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?
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Both of Anthony Doerr's most recent novels—All the Light We Cannot See and Cloud Cuckoo Land—contain plots that weave together separate stories, connected in some manner.
Anthony Doerr's novel All the Light We Cannot See takes place in the past, while Cloud Cuckoo Land includes storylines from the past, present, and future.
While All the Light We Cannot See has two storylines, Anthony Doerr's most recent novel, Cloud Cuckoo Land, combines three separate subplots.
Anthony Doerr's critically-acclaimed novels, All the Light We Cannot See and Cloud Cuckoo Land, were written within the past decade.
While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes:
In the 1930s, anthropologists Margaret Meade and Gregory Bateson produced documentary film footage while performing research in Bali.
Meade and Bateson's footage is designed to reveal a variety of aspects of village life.
Trance and Dance offers a view of Balinese musicians and the audience viewing a dance ritual.A Balinese Family reveals how children learn by participating in adult activities, including care for infants and daily prayers.
The student wants to describe the content of Trance and Dance for an audience already familiar with Meade and Bateson's research. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?
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Trance and Dance was recorded in the 1930s as part of an anthropological research project.
While performing anthropological research, Meade and Bateson produced short films documenting village life in Bali.
In Trance and Dance, Meade and Bateson recorded a Balinese dance ritual, focusing on both musicians and audience members.
Two of the short films that Meade and Bateson produced were Trance and Dance and A Balinese Family.
While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes:
Katherine Graham of The Washington Post was the first female publisher of a major American newspaper.
She also became the first female CEO of a Fortune 500 company in the United States.
Katherine Graham's father, Eugene Meyer, purchased The Washington Post at a bankruptcy auction in 1933.
Graham's husband, Philip Graham, took charge of the paper in 1946.
Katherine Graham assumed the leadership of the paper from 1969 to 1979.
She presided over the publication of The Washington Post during the Watergate Scandal, shaping the paper into an influential force in investigative journalism.
The student wants to make a generalization about the management of The Washington Post. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?
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Graham and members of her immediate family held prominent positions at The Washington Post.
The Washington Post published significant coverage of the Watergate Scandal.
In 1933, The Washington Post faced bankruptcy but was purchased by Katherine Graham's father.
Katherine Graham is notable for multiple breakthroughs throughout her career, including becoming the first woman to head a Fortune 500 company.
While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes:
Haim Saban is a successful media producer and investor.
In the 1980s, Saban discovered the live-action television show Super Sentai during a business trip in Japan.
Super Sentai features masked heroes and giant robots fighting mythical monsters.
Saban licensed episodes of Super Sentai in order to reproduce the action sequences, with dialogue in English instead of in Japanese.
He then cast American teenagers for separate scenes, with some teenagers playing "unmasked" versions of the masked heroes.
Saban's efforts resulted in the series Power Rangers, which debuted in 1993.
The student wants to emphasize a specific difference between Super Sentai and Saban's television series. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?
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To create Power Rangers, Saban licensed action sequences from Super Sentai, replacing the Japanese dialogue with English voice acting.
Saban discovered Super Sentai during a business trip in Japan and developed a plan for repurposing the series for English language television.
Saban's reworking of elements from Super Sentai culminated in 1993, when Power Rangers premiered.
Masked heroes from Super Sentai reappeared in the action scenes in Power Rangers.
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