Mock STAAR Review Paired Passage

9. 9. Using Sticking to it: Which sentence supports the thesis that the two men determined to make their invention succeed?

• Fry felt an "adrenaline rush" from the plans swirling in his head could use adhesive to stick bookmarks into the pages of his favorite books

• The two worked hard to convince others of the adhesive usefulness

• Yet few people were interested in microscopes

• How could something with such a week adhesive be benificial?

• It took them several more years to perfect the design, but finally with the help of other scientists, they had it; a then film of the special adhesive along just one side of a piece of paper

10. 10. This information helps the reader understand that the word persistence in paragraph 5 means in the article Sticking to It means:

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11. 11. Sticking to It: What does the introduction in the article help the reader understand about sticky notes?

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4. 12. Unexpected Gift: What does the break between lines 4 and 5 help the reader understand"

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3. 13. Unexpected Gift: Lines 13 through 16 are important to the plot of the poem because that is when

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14. 14. Unexpected Gift: What is most likely the reason the author uses limited point of view in the poem?

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15. 15. Both: Read lines 37 through 40 from the poem. Which sentence from the article contains SIMILAR idea about an object being used often?

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16. 16. BOTH: Both Silver in the article and the speaker in the poem create something useful. How is this experience DIFFERENT for Silver.

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17. 17. BOTH: One Difference between the article and the poem is that only the article shows -

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18. 18. BOTH: Which group of lines from the poem contains a similar idea from the article "Although Silver missed his initial goal, he knew he designed something revolutionary.

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