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Texas EOC English 1: 3.1 Understanding and Analysis of Informational Texts
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Summarize the main idea of the following selection about women during WWII. 

Texas EOC English 1: 3.5 Understanding and Analysis of Informational Texts
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Time to show off your strength like Rosie the Riveter! ....Er....sorry. Not by flexing your arms. That won't help you much with this question. Why...

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Thank you We sneak in here's your shmoop du jour

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brought to you by recycling This video is made of

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at least sixty percent passed shmoop to yours All right

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check the following passage His teacher It has elektronik ways

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Toxic chemical mercury grand accident city All right we're done

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Which revisionist Sentenced three would make it more effective and

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hear the potential answers Cool so let's start by reading

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sentence three once they get a new computer or new

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cellphone most people don't think twice about the ones they

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are throwing out Well it looks like the idea behind

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this sense is fine but the wording is way if

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we can find a better option Choice b is definitely

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not it If anything it's more awkward than the original

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first off the pronouns day and one's come before the

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nose people and electronics This makes it kind of hard

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to connect Our pronouns too are now nhs on a

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first read it's not the end of the world but

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sense could be better Also this option leaves out back

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that the old electronics are thrown away which is an

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important idea choice dee is probably the wackiest option of

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all beginning with the phrase throwing out their old electron

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ix makes the sentence unnecessarily complicated Option c isn't too

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bad The wording is clear so it's got one up

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on its predecessor However like option b it leaves out

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the part about the electronics being thrown away Maybe the

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nostalgia for past electronics is well just too much to

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bear The correct answer Is a This one is clearly

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worded and doesn't skimp on telling us about the throne

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Away electronics Oh this questions making us miss our itself 00:01:56.08 --> [endTime] I don't know that

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