The epic simile in this excerpt shows how helpless Odysseus's men are in the clutches of the Cyclops. whether mad cow disease is likely to affect the reader add to the case study. We dont realize what otherworldly creatures birds are. "how." A high rating on the Scoville scale means that a lot of dilutions are necessary to eliminate the pain caused by a particular pepper. Birds have been trying to educate me since I was a child. D. Chili peppers were mistakenly thought to resemble black pepper. They appear alongside dishes served around the globe, from the Basque provinces to North Africa and the Middle East to India and Southeast Asia. 55 the University of Connecticut, analyzed samples of the clicks that Ben and Kish make. <>stream a sidebar <>/ProcSet[/PDF/Text/ImageC]/XObject<>>>/Rotate 0/TrimBox[ 0 0 612 792]/Type/Page>> The chickens stay where they do as a direct result of what the author has taught them. And by 1949, malaria was no longer a serious health problem in the U.S. Read these words from lines 18 and 19. show different kinds of data at once. Summary of Beat The Devil by the nation??!!! D. With the help of Braille books and a talking laptop computer, Ben attends the same classes as sighted students. (lines 41 through 43). When I was in seventh grage, my family had endobj The possibility of bacterial growth actually increases after cooking. You can see with your nose and your ears.You cant use your eyes anymore, but you have your hands and your nose and your ears.. Before B. Mrs. Scallop1 was broody this morning and left him alone, her glance passing over him as it passed over the kitchen chairs. Do not give away the ending, but let readers know what type of life lesson they might learn from reading the text. Food poisoning is a cause for concern. safety manuals You must get to this place early. They both allow highlighting. I wanted him to teach me what he knew, for I realized that he was the master and I the student. C. by presenting the characteristics of animals that use echolocation This friendly competition wont be settled anytime soon. It was then the time of the fall migration, and with every overhead V I utter a prayer for the birds safe passage. Read the passage from Food Safety Myths Exposed. Mr. Scullys shades were drawn the house had a pinched look as though it felt the cold. a clincher to end your review in a memorable way. In lines 31 through 36, Ned keeps his distance from the cat because he, A. envisions the cat being sick from licking ice or snow 10 with objects and people around him. <> C. They create humor by personifying two condiments in an imagined contest. What is "A daughter wanted to eat dinner with her dad. Kish leads other blind people on mountain biking tours and hikes in the wilderness, visualizing and describing the picturesque sights around him through echolocating. There is a way to compare the relative heat intensities of the various chili peppers. <> Find and create gamified quizzes, lessons, presentations, and flashcards for students, employees, and everyone else. It is organized step by step, to instruct the servers to put on each piece of attire in a specific order. Check all that apply. explain how to avoid food poisoning from bacteria. A second fundamental truth of birds lends a title to the second chapter: Birds Are Dinosaurs. 37. by Elie Wiesel. find problems and solutions in the text. She decided that she wanted to make pizza, but he could not make it home because of work. The author sets the tone with his use of . Introduction Japan, for example, tests a sample from every cow that will be used for food. Then answer questions 36 through 42. I thought back to my time with the emus. to show the steps an employee must take to become eligible to apply for a position, Which are considered functional workplace documents? !. (HIV is the virus that causes AIDS.) Read the passage from When Birds Get Flu and Cows Go Mad! We seek the truth of birds though collection and classification, he writes. wield the power to thrill and inspire. internal policies D. The chickens do what they do as a result of trial and error. The chill of its habitat is quite ironic since wasabi is famous for bringing the heat. 30 but the cat, joined into one shape by a dusting of snow. Mr. Scully, with his poor eyesight, might not spot the cat on top of the icebox, might not, then, set food out for it. Their bodies are full of air sacs; their feathers, also hollow-shafted, are sculpted to capture and move air. We mammals are made mainly of heavy fluids; but as I have titled another chapter, Birds Are Made of Air. Look at this section from the table of contents for When Birds Get Flu. 5 0 obj to tell servers why specific attire is required for their job Chromatography is an analytical technique that separates the chemical components of a mixture. the solution to a problem that needs to be solved. 100 Definition of "mesa". To understand birds is to appreciate at once their fundamental strangeness and sameness. Under the normal growing conditions, this ingredient is completely harmless. endstream He makes a clicking sound to communicate 42. "Excerpt from Birdology" (2017) Rain Check (2022) Vocabulary from the Questions on the Test Prefix-Suffix: Tell Me the Meaning 100 The author Who is Naomi Shihab Nye? To evaluate the transcript from the video Dr. X and the Quest for Food Safety, the reader must first identify the subject as Which is a problem-solution signal word? Read these passages from When Birds Get Flu and Cows Go Mad! How do lines 1-5 contribute to the understanding of the text? After a few hours I noticed he began to address them. by John DiConsiglio. Because of birds very different lineage; because they are made of different stuff than we; because of the powers that birds possess that we do not; and because, despite our deep differences, we can share much of a birds mental and emotional experience, birds bring us news far more important than our own personal, human lives. Then answer questions 1 through 7. 10 0 obj We dont even think of birds as animals (although they areand humans, as well, of course). H^zfc%IuTp* SfGj,Oy2z/3 N{ ,0h }lb%s+2|d\|AD(KY-.8YL7L{&Yo?B\-K',mW _ou|c&!rN, oHhpt#%U#%j=5,G8*#w `L0LIYIT 2Z:\Vv K5';0%g B:"}N [B2%"#-u1X+1U)SaN^w\HE}"n:AlJ-S3qRZd"4,_O5 5Z'OO)&o'D3cH9"Spt! Leave them in the pen for twenty-four hours, she told me. en to your review. Which statement best explains the central idea that this passage introduces? Enzymes convert the ingredient into molecules of allyl isothiocyanate. 25 identified them as variants of black pepper. It intensifies the foreshadowing of what is to come. reinforce the case study's point that chickens are dangerous. More than 25 million people worldwide have died of the AIDS pandemic since 1981. They've efficiently solved a sequence of puzzles that led them up to now, however they're now confronted with a puzzle that seems to be unsolvable. D. It cautions that wasabi causes an intense repeated attack occuring over time. a numbered list He ate breakfast hastily, too preoccupied to read the story on the cereal box. (line 11) the tone/mood of the text. Is it perfect for sports fans? to reassure the reader about the dangers of mad cow disease, At the end of When Birds Get Flu and Cows Go Mad!, author John DiConsiglio leaves what problem unresolved? by John DiConsiglio. Lets not eat any more of that, please!. The plant is a botanical relative of mustard and horseradish. draw conclusions about the epidemiologists mentioned in the case study. The sample came from a Holstein, a black and white dairy cow. reinforce the case study's point that bird flu is dangerous. Echolocation creates its own images. Gordon remembers her son after the operation. Read the video transcript from Dr. X and the Quest for Food Safety. 28. This book is not among them. 34. 39. Use of the Caddell Prep service and this website constitutes acceptance of our. A. They dissolve in the watery fluids they find there. C. relieved 30 discriminate the sounds in video games. he could tell it was the road because of the deep ditches which feel away to either side. In scientific experiments, researchers have trained days-old chicks to find hidden food using both distant and nearby landmarks as cues. because it killed so many people At first, they liked to stay near the coop. 40. why events took place. to present new ideas on the same topic as the main text. But as they grew, they took to following me Fourteen-year-old Ben Underwood of Sacramento, Calif., is one of the few people known to use echolocation as a primary means of navigating the world on land. explain the top twelve of the most harmful bacteria. endobj The title was Birdology. How could I resist? Even though birds are all around us, most of them are strangers. At first, it seemed like a bad case of the flu. The author most likely includes this passage to imply that A team went to Southeast Asia to respond to an epidemic of smallpox and cholera. to count the number of years HIV/AIDS has been present in Africa. Copyright The viewer gets overwhelmed by conflicting information. B. distinguish among more sounds Oh, yes, I thought. by Mary Beth Cox. The chicks probably relied on a visual estimate of these distances from their actual positions, wrote University of Padova researcher L. Tommasi and co-authors in the Journal of 38. When my father-in-law came to help my husban build a pen for Christopher Hogwood, then still a piglet, the Ladies milled underfoot to supervisse every move. 5. 29. The plot. If we did, we would be awestruck. They are covered with modified scaleswe call them feathers. The words made no sense to him. Which statement best describes the purpose of the table titled "Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE)" at the end of the passage When Birds Get Flu? This developmental strategy is called precocial. B. Chickens are born ready and require no further maturing. *. to criticize the handling of HIV/AIDS in these African countries 2 0 obj Ever since I was privileged to live among and study wild emus in South Australia in 1984, I have wanted to write a book about birds. The Monkey's Paw By W, W. Jacobs (1863-1943). What is most likely the author's reason for including this graph? draw conclusions about the chickens mentioned in the case study. <>/Font<>/ProcSet[/PDF/Text/ImageB/ImageC/ImageI] >>/MediaBox[ 0 0 612 792] /Contents 4 0 R/Group<>/Tabs/S/StructParents 0>> Examine labels and hangtags on clothing in a store to see how information is listed. The recipient of numerous honors, including lifetime achievement awards from the Humane Society and the New England Booksellers Association, she lives in New Hampshire with her husband, writer Howard Mansfield, and a border collie. How? He liked to perch on the crystal chandelier over her prized mahogany dining room table, with predictable consequences. People all over the globe are observing World AIDS Day on December 1, 2006. meat, poultry, or seafood 5 of the barns previous denizens, in which they could lay future eggs. 50 points minimum!!! 35 preclude learning. They then zero in on the insects like laser-guided missiles. 9th Grade Lexile: 1190. 11 0 obj To be a birdologist, she said, you just have to appreciate birds, and be intentional about appreciating birds in some way. We could all be birdologists, she saidand we should be. Identify two smilies located in the first paragraph of "The Fly." For each simile, explain its significance to the story. What is "when animals know things as soon as they are born"? In 1958, scientists at the CDC made their first trip overseas. D. Some animals are known for using echolocation to find food. Even more astonishing, they can do it in spaces they have never seen before, whether the area be circular, square, or triangular. A. Chromatography is used to compare the heat strengths of wasabi and chili peppers. <>stream bold words If you listen closely to Ben or Kish, you can hear how they find their way. B. numbering a heading Written with verve, with expertise aplenty, with heart and a poet's sensibility, the writer who lives in New Hampshire like the reviewers, struts her stuff and we are all the better for it. 33. C. suggesting that Mr. Scully has been neglecting the cat Then answer questions 29 through 35. The following text is an excerpt from Equiano's autobiography, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of . I have mental images that are very rich, very comples. Scientist have discovered that in the brains of the blind, the visual cortex has not become useless, for example to substitute for sight, the brains visual cortex becomes active, even though no images reach it from the optic nerve. What is the result of being unable to use the Scoville scale to measure the heat strength of wasabi? Dr. Dowell is an epidemiologist. HZ ,t We know very little of what it might be like to be a bird. Forty-year-old Daniel Kish of Long Beach, Calif., also uses echolocation, and has This grade 9 mini-assessment is based on an excerpt from . Based on information found in this table of contents, what do you predict the section entitled "Research Findings" is about? Which claim do lines 65 through 72 support? On the first December, there was a heavy snowfall. More than 500,000 Americans die. But ours have intuited our property lines and confine their travels to its boundaries. If your nest is on the ground, as most game birds are, its a good idea to get your babies out of there as quickly as possible before someone comes to eat them. 23. Following these birds Tyrannosaur-like footprints, I traveled back in time, to an era of wondrous transformation. The parts you can't eatlike the bones and hoovesare often sent to factories that grind them into meal for animal feed. On the porch, he paused to take deep breaths of air which tasted, he imagined, like D. what he can tell you about an objects qualities is sometimes astonishingly thorough. (lines 49 and 50). Which text element indicates that the text is in a sequence? Though gifted with instincts and senses that we lack, birds intellectual capacities are shockingly similar to our own. x}mhh(v#J`a"U}U$&64;$*f/z7fj]}gt~(ZZdU6ge?22 q~V%3Y#?|]\b[XLy+^y V`g.clM?K=pf|)Y+\b*( ?%,My"}}+^|g\;~Y_#WJ7rUiVZHpN"mv*?%k]r+hLWtNe5}Sp2_7y?FvjNNvAo xrZ77|hB$Ff!TJCx% hixwIhM$:o-hWm/Y(v:4LYd #C{ p{6U{U]R^KZ-;/W Its my hope that the birds you will meet in my new book will teach you, too. Your hook may be an unusual question, a vivid description, or an interesting statement taken from the book or author. why epidemics are dangerous. Even the commonest of birds (remember Jonathan Livingston Seagull?) The tracks had frozen and they crunched under Ned's weight, but the cat didn't raise its head. to make cross contamination funny to viewers When bats go out to hunt, they send out sonar signals at such high frequencies and in such rapid burst that they can hear the signals bounce off mosquitoes in midair. And what does this say about the future of humans and birds living together on this sweet, green Earth? bacteria research. C. It warns that direct contact with wasabi causes injury. Lines 36 through 42 identify why something happens, and lines 59 through 64 describe what happens. (After all, Einstein was born knowing how to suckle.) Taking a bribe is no _____ but a serious infraction of ethics. That is the purpose of this book: to restore both our awe and our connection to these winged aliens who live among us. He tried very hard to concentrate on his lessons, to watch Miss Jeffersons plump, even handwriting on the blackboard as she wrote out the lines from a poem by Thomas Gray ), That chickens hatch from the egg knowing how to walk, run, peck, and scratch has an odd consequence: many people take this as further evidence they are stupid. imagining the information in the video. This was a mark of deep trust and affection, and he would do this with only me. Some of the text reinforces the video by providing facts. They have no hands. B. describing the challenges of dealing with heavy snow B. by giving examples to explain how echolocation works bullets, What is the purpose of the bulleted list in this document? We shared a common ancestor with chimps as recently as five million years ago. by John DiConsiglio. Since the rescue features Tracy, the viewer is intended to learn about her video science project. Even though I had never seen any other creature do this in quite the same way, I understood what was happening: he was feeding me. They simply do not possess the visual element, Kish says. Even though he cant see the goal hes aiming for, he can sink a basket. Licking the snow or ice could make them sick. "if." Based on this table of contents, on which page should one start reading to find information about steps that have already been taken to protect coral reefs? Font Size. C. Kish varies the pace and volume of his clicks as he walks along. (Lines 48 and 49) Gretchen shares her personal experiences, and the author criticizes them. Though I have written elsewhere about those emus, I never got around to a whole book about birds, mostly because mammals kept jumping the line: Chimps, gorillas and orangutans. Can a steak or hamburger that's infected with mad cow disease end up on your dinner plate? Chili peppers conduct operations of a different sort. When my husband, Howard, Then early in the morning, the girl died. We consider animals to be our fellow mammals, with whom our kinship is obvious. Red-hot romances, poolside fiction, and blockbuster picks, oh my! This virus usually strikes poultry, like chickens, ducks, and turkeys. At first I was afraid theyd run away or become lost. Birds are essentially feather-fringed bubblesa fact frustratingly poignant to bird rehabilitators, whose Herculean task it is to a nurse back to health, or raise to adulthood, beings whose essential fragility gives them the power to conquer the sky. Explanation: This is in reference to an excerpt from Birdology where the author is in the process of setting up a home for her new chicks. D. It provides a scientific explanation for the effects of consuming wasabi and chili peppers. Read this passage from When Birds Get Flu and Cows Go Mad! <> q:ad +Q)Z?k8X"[2-P6ReG \V*}8F%/;"bntvwQUTz6c80+ iy *hrjg8]q4#gS=[lzJ@k(nK>[K@q m.qs0a |S[ylT-v" |#h:mk']s2`u$<4OF'Fj]{TpaQv})#Q)nsyOrVRws2HTF hQhCIJj0;G5"@S) C Iz8! endstream Their active ingredient is a substance called capsaicin. They are volatile. The main purpose of a graph is to But, as I title another chapter, Birds Can Talk. They are related to the tomato and the eggplant. "1918 The Superbug" 60 the ones bats and dolphins can find. underlining information in the video. endobj C. Chickens have a faster growth rate than other birds. 3. This was my prayer as I began working on this book. They burn eyes that are rubbed with capsaicin-laced fingers. He can find the pole and the backboard on a basketball goal, and tell which is which by the distinctive echo each makes. (lines 26 and 27) In the hospital, her mother held her for hours. HkpSlcl#q?&`LNqBvv4& &v?LW&2 iIGI:tL2Ij&5fgw byCGE>t N @PFq(.?w K>CTu 100 The definition of "precocial". to show the steps an employee must take to apply for an internal position He was a green parakeet who came home with me from a dime store. Picking up a hammer they were examining, he might say, directly and respectfully, Pardon me, Ladies as if he were speaking to my mother-in-law and me when we got in the way. 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