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TSI Reading: Using Details to Detemine the Setting 4 Views
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Description:
A reader can tell from the description in the passage that the story takes place
(A)in a cold, mountainous region
(B)during sub-zero temperatures
(C)somewhere in the Antarctic
(D)along an Alaskan creek
Transcript
- 00:03
Okay third of three analyzing freezing to death V s
- 00:07
sulphur creek is a painful couple paragraphs to read or
- 00:10
write A reader can tell from the description in the
- 00:12
passage that the story takes place The wear Don't think
- 00:18
about this We know the setting of this story is
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- 00:20
cold and snowy It's all over this passage too late
- 00:24
The protagonist remembers the advice He was given that well
- 00:27
after fifty below a man should travel with a partner
- 00:31
Well we know for sure that the temperatures are sub
- 00:33
zero Probably way sub zero which also explains why the
- 00:37
poor man's hands are almost frozen solid So it's got
- 00:40
to be be certainly during sub zero temperatures is at
- 00:43
least certainly correct here some mothers might be but let's
- 00:47
go to lose your bowl here Yes it's called there's
- 00:49
no description of any mountains so what's a antarctic is
- 00:52
probably as cold as it gets But without the penguins
- 00:55
running around there's no way to tell the exact location
- 00:57
story like it could be the arctic or siberia And
- 01:00
yes alaska's cold too and there's mention of sulfur creek
- 01:03
But we can't know the exact location from this excerpt
- 01:06
so it might be right But it's certainly not the
- 01:08
best answer Where during sub zero temperatures like you can't
- 01:12
argue that that's not at least one right answer Maybe
- 01:15
if i asked you to pick the two Best You
- 01:16
could throw that one in there but they didn't They
- 01:18
wanted the best So it's b and we're going to
- 01:21
go get a coat and a nice warm cup of 00:01:23.228 --> [endTime] soup
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