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SAT Reading: Classifying the Relationship Between Two Passages
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SAT Reading: Describing President Obama's Reasoning for Referencing the Founding Principles
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SAT Reading: Analyzing Similar Traits Between Two Passages about Trends 6 Views


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Mapping two texts together forces readers to pick common keywords, key themes, key patterns. Make a list. Check it twice. And get the gist. Or mash up. Or whatever.


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00:03

all right Shmoopers were back to tulip mania and beanie babies now we're kind

00:08

of doing a mash-up reading here all right let me invest one and the beanie [text on screen]

00:11

baby babbling passage to share which trait all right well the correct answer [students writing]

00:16

here yeah it's a people did in fact mortgage land and real estate to get

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into the market and buying tulips and buying beanie babies if you can imagine

00:25

well the first passage mentions the setting up of markets in five Dutch [text on screen]

00:29

cities at the outset of the tulip craze the second passage explains how a baby

00:34

came the primary market for beanie babies the two manias had other things [beanie baby for sale online]

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in common but they aren't mentioned in the possible answer so we just kind of

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ignore them and move on well the first passage suggest that foreign investment [text on screen]

00:47

created price irregularities but there's no mention of a similar effect in the

00:51

second passage so nixb we know that beanie baby collectors selling low

00:55

assisted in the collapse of that market but we can't be sure about the tulip [Beanie Baby for sale on Ebay]

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market based on this passage so nix see like it's got to be in both or it

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doesn't count in fact based on what we've read our best guess is that people

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eventually refused to pay any price and the tulip speculators were stuck with [woman shaking head]

01:12

well what they had bought it was like whoever left with a hot potato or that

01:17

musical chairs thing there was nowhere left to sit the human toll of bubbles [money falling]

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was described more fully in the first passage with people losing everything [bubbles rising]

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including homes either and the beanie baby bloom in bust well it seems tame in

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comparison to what happened in tulip mania so let's see what happens to the [tulip field in foreclosure]

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next mania yeah any pending bets on what that'll be we got a few zombie

01:37

apocalypse ideas but me [zombies advancing]

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