Selection Test Review: Automation and Paradox

What is a claim?

• A writer's position or viewpoint

• A type of evidence

• A statistical analysis

• A transitional phrase.

Tags

CCSS.W.8.1A

Automation refers to the use of ______.

• manual labor

• automated equipment

• transitional phrases

• end notes.

What does the term 'paradox' mean?

• Similar ideas

• Opposites that go together

• A type of claim

• A statistical measure.

Tags

CCSS.L.8.4B

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

End notes appear at the end of an article to provide ______.

• a summary

• additional information or cite sources

• a claim

• a paradox

Numbers and Stats signposts help support the author's claim by ______.

• using opinions

• using credible evidence

• using paradoxes

• using transitional phrases.

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RI.8.8

CCSS.SL.8.4

CCSS.W.8.1B

Transitional words and phrases connect ideas and signal how those ideas are ______.

• unrelated

• related

• paradoxical

• statistical

Tags

CCSS.W.8.1C

CCSS.W.8.2C

CCSS.W.8.3C

What is the claim of 'The Automation Paradox'?

• A) Automation is negative for society

• B) Automation is positive for society

• C) Automation has no impact on society

• D) Automation is a paradox.

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RI.8.2

CCSS.RI.8.6

CCSS.RI.8.8

The claim of 'Heads Up, Humans' is that automation is ______ for society.

• positive

• negative

• neutral

• paradoxical

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RI.8.2

CCSS.RI.8.6

CCSS.RI.8.8

Both 'Heads Up, Humans' and 'Automation Paradox' argue that jobs will ______ due to automation.

• disappear

• transform

• remain the same

• increase

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.2

CCSS.RI.8.6

CCSS.RI.8.8

CCSS.RI.8.9

What do both texts use to support their claims?

• Opinions

• Statistics and evidence

• Paradoxes

• Transitional phrases.

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RI.8.8

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.W.8.1B

CCSS.W.8.9A