Do Now

•What do you think this couple’s relationship is like? Explain your reasoning

Drawing Conclusions

• What you wrote for your Do Now required you to draw conclusions. The picture didn’t tell you the answer. Instead you used evidence from the picture (and perhaps your life experiences) to draw conclusions and make inferences.

Drawing Conclusions

• These types of questions will ask you to extend the ideas from a text. Unlike reading comprehension, the information will not be directly stated in the text. (you won’t be able to “point to the answer”)

Types of Questions•There are 3 main ways the CAHSEE

will ask you to draw conclusions.•identify the main idea of a passage•make an inference•identify information that best

supports claims made in the passage.

Build on what you know• We draw conclusions about things all the time, for example:

• If you are at an amusement park and see people leaving a ride laughing and speaking in an excited tone, you don’t need someone to directly tell you that the ride is good. You would conclude from their actions that the ride is probably fun.

• If you see a large cloud of smoke in the air, you probably don’t need a fireman to explicitly state that there is a fire and that you should keep your distance. Most people draw that conclusion themselves.

• So how does this concept work on a test?

The Whiskey Rebellion 226

• MOST of the information in this essay has to do with-

• A) the suppression of an eighteenth century rebellion

• B) eighteenth century Pennsylvania farming techniques

• C) the early years of Washington’s Presidency

• D) the reason for the western states‘ opposition to taxation

• Testing Tip: Look at the question before we read the passage!

The Whiskey Rebellion 226• On August 7, 1794, President George Washington sent a militia of thirteen thousand men to stop an

uprising of angry farmers in western Pennsylvania. The commander in charge was General “Light-Horse Harry” Lee. Washington himself headed up the troops.

• The trouble had started in1791, when the national government place a heavy tax upon whiskey. This tax effectively erased any profits Pennsylvania farmers could earn from their crops. So farmers began to harass the tax collectors. Their protests continued for the next three years, escalating into riots, barn burnings, and attacks on government agents.

• There were wider implications of Washington’s 1794 action against the farmers. This was the first time the Militia Act of 1792 was put into practice. The law had been passed in order to “execute the laws of the union, (and) suppress insurrections.” This gave the national government the right to use out-of-state troops to put an end to an uprising in another state. When Washington ordered the suppression of the disgruntled farmers, he was asserting the authority of the new federal government over the states. It was a display of national power.

• Paragraph 1: Washington moves troops to stop a rebellion• Paragraph 2: Rebellion started 3 years earlier with heavy whisky tax• Paragraph 3: Explains the larger importance of Washington’s move to

stop the rebellion.

Find The Main Idea

The Whiskey Rebellion 226• Testing Tip: Look at the question before we read

the passage!• MOST of the information in this essay has to do

with-• A) the suppression of an eighteenth century rebellion

• B) eighteenth century Pennsylvania farming techniques

• C) the early years of Washington’s Presidency

• D) the reason for the western states‘ opposition to taxation

Try with a partner• Wild Cats pg. 227: A “feral” animal is a breed of domestic animal that

lives in the wild. For example, there are feral dogs, cats pigs, and horses. Wildlife enthusiasts sometimes blame feral cats for lowering the number of certain bird and reptile populations. Feral cats can survive without humans feeding them, but usually human intervention of some kind helps them survive. Wildlife advocates complain that feral cat populations are able to thrive because many humans do not have their cats spayed or neutered. Also cat-loving humans bring them to places where there is an ample supply of easy prey, such as rodents reptiles, carrion, insects, and birds. Cat enthusiasts argue that all cats hunt prey, whether they are well fed or not.

• Answer question one on 228 with a partner

• Wildlife advocates complain that feral cat populations are able to thrive because many humans do not have their cats spayed or neutered. Also cat-loving humans bring them to places where there is an ample supply of easy prey, such as rodents reptiles, carrion, insects, and birds.

• According to this excerpt, wildlife advocates think feral cats survive because

• A) they move to areas where domestic cats live

• B) cat-loving humans take them in

• C) they travel in large packs for protection

• D) they are given access to plenty of food

Birds and Windows 228• Independent Practice- Read the questions first. Read the passage, underline

important lines - write the main idea for each chunk in the margin. THEN answer questions 2&3

• There are two reasons why birds careen into windows. The first is that they see their own reflection and believe it’s another bird. This kind of collision isn’t dangerous. The bird fights but eventually gives up and goes away unhurt. The second kind of collision can be deadly. A bird sees a reflection of the outdoors in a window, such as the woods or sky, and flies into it because it thinks the reflection is real.

• It’s easy to prevent this from happening. You just have to find a way to keep the window from reflecting. You can rub soap on the outside of the window or hang something in front of it to create a distraction. Some people tilt their glass so that birds won’t see a reflection. Others put life-size pictures of owl or hawks in their windows to scare the birds away.

Debrief• Which of the following is the BEST conclusion that

can be drawn about birds based on the essay?

• A) Birds find the taste of soap offensive, so they won’t fly into a window coated with it.

• B) Birds often choose the woods over any other kind of outdoor landscape

• C) It is dangerous to put pictures of of owls and hawks on your windows because birds fear them

• D) Window reflections sometimes confuse birds, causing them to injure themselves

Exit Slip•Read page 229 and answer

questions 4-7 on 230.•Read questions first•Annotate and identify main ideas/

passages that will help you answer the questions.

•Answer the questions