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Common Core 8th Grade 1.3 Reading Literary Texts. Which evidence from the text best supports the inference that Gorgons are dangerous?
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Common Core 8th Grade 1.3 Reading Literary Texts. Which evidence from the text best supports the inference that Gorgons are dangerous?
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- 00:00
Sorry And here's your shmoop du jour brought to you
- 00:05
by gorgons with attitude We'd hate to be the mom
- 00:08
of a gorgon Going through puberty don't mean jack out
- 00:11
the following passage from perseus and the gorgons Awful in
- 00:14
there down a long one And don't worry we're still
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- 00:18
here When you're done he's swimming away i forgot no
- 00:27
Thanks What All right along we can infer from the
- 00:33
passage that the gorgons are dangerous Which evidence from the
- 00:36
text best supports this inference and hear your tension All
- 00:45
right well let's from up we recommend avoiding all direct
- 00:48
eye contact with gorgons seriously who once made a bad
- 00:52
gorgon paan and suffering consequences and well we thought it
- 00:55
rocked let's look at answer a first while medusa is
- 00:58
dangerous for hairstyle alone gives a new meaning to the
- 01:01
phrase looks can kill A actually talked about her weakness
- 01:05
is not what makes are dangerous and even though this
- 01:07
means the other gorgons can't be defeated decapitation style it
- 01:11
isn't the best answer to the question and has nothing
- 01:13
to do with going in style Your answer is feeling
- 01:17
so you both referred to the gorgons physical appearance and
- 01:20
even though we wouldn't want to meet gordon in a
- 01:22
dark alleyway just gigantic or looking a certain way doesn't
- 01:25
make something dangerous since that's all the detail we have
- 01:28
in those answers we can scratch off both b and
- 01:30
c which leaves us with answered deep remember that hole
- 01:33
up if looks could kill thing if let's kill great
- 01:38
old medusa and her gorgon friends mean it by heart
- 01:42
ask your parents they were great today If you look
- 01:45
directly at it gor gon you turn into stone permanently
- 01:47
like a garden gnome permanent that makes me the most
- 01:51
dangerous and the most correct of our potential answers And
- 01:54
hey we're kind of jealous that gorgon save a bunch 00:01:56.397 --> [endTime] of money on lawn decoration We thought it rocked
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