Recommendations A Math
Language arts
ESC Standards
Sixth grade
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* A.1 Determine the main idea of a passage R2C
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Read the passage.
AC vs. DC
In the 1880s, the War of the Currents began. Thomas Edison developed direct current, or
DC, a type of electricity that flows in one direction. By 1887, DC was in use around the
United States. It had some drawbacks, though. Converting it to lower or higher voltages
was difficult; that is, the current's force couldn't be changed easily. Transmitted at the
low voltage needed for use in homes and businesses, it lost power after traveling only a
mile. Meanwhile, Nikola Tesla was working with alternating current, or AC. AC reverses
direction many times per second and can be changed to different voltages. At high
voltage, it can be transmitted efficiently, traveling hundreds of miles with little energy
loss. Because of its advantages, AC triumphed by the end of the nineteenth century.
What is the main idea of the passage?

Read the passage first of all if someone says your dream is impossible, they’re wrong. you can’t prove that something is impossible-all you know is that[it] hasn’t been done yet. people said no one could scale mount everest but in 1953, sir edmund hilary and tenzing norway gazed down upon the world from it’s summit. people said that man could not fly, but in 1903, orville and wilbur wright made the first sustained powered flight in a heavier-than-air machine. people said, “okay, we admit that someone could climb mount everest, and we admit that man has learned to fly, but no one will ever, ever walk on the face of the moon.” if we can send three men a quarter of a million miles away and bring them home safely, is there any great task we cannot accomplish? which identifies the textual evidence that best supports the claim: the authors purpose is to persuade? a: the author shares historical information about the wright brothers. b: the author states that men have walked the moon. c: the author states that others who think your dreams are impossible are wrong. d: the author wants to know what tasks we cannot accomplish.

Form two real words by combining a prefix and/or suffix with the root listed below. if you need to, use your dictionary. then illustrate that the word has the meaning of that root by using one of those words in a sentence. example: dic, dict=to say 1. addiction 2. edict the judge's edict was the final say in that matter. mit, mis=send

What is the central idea of paragraph 1 of the story?