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CAHSEE 8.4 Passage Drill. What is the main purpose of the passage?

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Sorry And here's her shmoop douceur brought to you by

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sky farming Flying tractor not required All right check Falling

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past humans have used constellations have trained him a thousand

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years ago backto night traveling favorite line this guy from

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earth and sky fall when they're a james bond movie

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but yeah all right stories and start an ancestor people

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of today in the world All right what's the main

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purpose of this passage going to confuse you and hear

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the potential answers not to continue not conventional All right

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Well one way to figure out the main purpose of

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this passage is to take a good hard look at

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the subheadings The author includes let's See we've got stories

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in the stars night traveling and sky farming Wait guy

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farming that sounds like something a care bear do that

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would probably have to enslave my little pony to pull

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the plow But we digress The point is that this

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passage covers lots of different ways that constellations have been

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used over time We'll keep that in mind as we

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sort through these answer options Let's get choice d out

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of our lives First of all the passage doesn't say

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anything About how constellation stories were written on ly that

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they were written to bad We could go for a

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story right now or maybe we're too old for that

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option A doesn't make the cut either A reader might

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be inspired to learn about the constellation after reading the

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article The whole sky farming thing sounds especially exciting However

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This author has something else on the agenda the passage

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might as c suggests inspire readers to support local astronomy

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groups Well that would be good We hear amateur astronomers

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are pretty median require all the support they can get

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But again though this passage has its eye on bigger

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things Choice He is clearly the correct answer All those

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subheading tip us off that this author is taking us

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on a tour of the many ways humans have used

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constellations Over time somebody really ought to send the constellations 00:02:03.06 --> [endTime] Thank you card with that Hello

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