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Common Core 8th Grade 1.1 Reading Informational Text. With which statement would the author most likely agree?
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- 00:00
Thanks We sneak in I mean here's your shmoop du
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jour brought to you by rob our zombie brain merchant
- 00:08
rob izam being behaved while we take a look at
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this question aren't you rob Ok check the passage What
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life means to me morning working last million gentlemen and
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mean newsradio in government bonds and only by pirates and
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become pillars sinan bey and frantic percent grain merchant discovered
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in last country All right we're not with which statement
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with author most likely agree and hear the potential answers
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more mumbling we're done Okay so let's look at answer
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be first everyone should aim to be successful in joined
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higher society Rob you do look great in a tux
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But the story ends with london telling us that high
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society isn't all it's cracked up to be The imposing
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edifice of society holds no delights for me Toby isn't
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correct on answer See hard work does not always result
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in success Well rob you may work hard chasing people
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or brains brains brains But you don't always catch him
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do you In fact london did have success as a
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brain merchant I was a success Society opened its portals
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To me But then he decided that going back to
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the working class was better for him so he can't
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be right onto answer D making money as an oyster
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pirate is more valuable than studying sociology Well this is
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reading comprehension Rob not biology so try to focus their
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body in this text London basically tells us that he
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liked doing both but doesn't place any value judgments on
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either The imposing edifice of society holds no delights for
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me It is the foundation of the edifice that interest
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me He just talks about what was right for him
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So d is gone now answer A people are all
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very similar It is education that makes a difference Yes
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rob All people have brains brains again not biology Here
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option is the most correct of our choices It's the
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first half of the answer here that really clinch is
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this way One london tells us in the story that
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he finds people to be made of the same clay
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Though we're all alike We just come from different circumstances
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and have different opportunities Yeah rob they've all got brains
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