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ELA Drills, Intermediate: Main Idea 1. Which of the statements is best supported by the passage?

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And here's your shmoop du jour brought to

00:05

you by Halloween costumes we thought about going as the Hulk but we just [Boy attempting to turn into the hulk]

00:10

couldn't get angry enough which of the statements is best supported by the

00:14

passage.... Jess wheeled a cart through the aisles of the store

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first she picked up two bags candy and put them in her cart and she saw the

00:21

perfect items for a Halloween costume including a tall black hat shaped like

00:24

an upside-down cone and long curly black press-on nails, she also considered green

00:30

face paint but decided it would be too messy. Jess put the hat and fake nails in

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her cart and hurried to the counter to buy her Halloween treasures..Shakespeare

00:38

wrote that as well.. and here are the potential answers

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Okay so jess is getting all prepared for Halloween sadly her plan to grow candy [Jess preparing for halloween]

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corn and her corn field hasn't worked out like she'd planned hopefully she's [Jess stood in a cornfield with a candy cornfield growth plan]

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making up for it with little shopping trip here we're told a lot in this

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passage question is which of our four answer choices is supported by the text..

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So let's take them one by one option B says that Jess is dressing is a mummy

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for Halloween what kind of mummy would this be exactly [A mummy dressed for halloween wearing a tall black hat]

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The kind that wears a tall black hat and curly black nails and look we don't want

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to tell a mummy how they can or cannot dress but something seems off here so

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let's keep looking option C; Jess hates candy not likely [Jess holding a shmoop bag of candy in the air]

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since she threw two bags of them into her cart okay so she might just be handing

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them out but even still there's nothing here to indicate this Jessa's anti candy [Jess handing out candy bars to people]

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after all how could you not love that face. All right what about D Jess is

01:28

going trick-or-treating well could be but again no evidence to [Passage of writing with a big red question mark]

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support it maybe she's going to a party or staying in dressing up and you know [Jess sat on a couch dressed up eating candy bars]

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eating those two bags of candy all by herself

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Option A that gets it right - Jess is dressing like a witch for Halloween we [Jess dressed as a witch staring in a mirror]

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never see the word witch but it's strongly implied by the context clues

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black hat, black curly nails, green face paint all classic witch stuff and we're

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told it's for her Halloween costumes so we know she's not playing the wicked [Jess riding a brrom wearing a black hat into the nights sky]

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witch in a school play yep option A is our answer well the fact that we didn't get

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the answer sooner makes us so angry...No still yellow, this mood makeup was a total

02:04

ripoff.. just can't get angry enough. [Man attempting to get angry and throws mood make up on the floor]

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