December 2010 ACT Reading Discussion

<p>ugh, I always miss small details like that :/</p>

<p>dang it!..</p>

<p>Yeah, I was iffy on who created the dance, until I actually started skimming the passage, and it just made sense that it would have been the previous generations. I thought the narrator was simply just a dancer/performer? I know she did the dance from watching the seagull, but that was just of her own making. That one dance.</p>

<p>Aww man. I put narrator because they ended up doing the bird dance or w.e which was obviously because of her. But I didn’t think about “majority.”</p>

<p>I was stumped on that one too! (About who created the dance)
I couldn’t finish the last section in time so I mostly filled in random bubbles :frowning:
My brain feels like mush now.</p>

<p>@Jenonymous</p>

<p>Don’t worry, I feel the same way. I ran out of time on the Math/Reading sections. It was heartbreaking. Ahhh…</p>

<p>2 things I didn’t have time to look for:</p>

<p>QUESTIONS:</p>

<p>What did she not talk about? Choices were what she ate, where she slept, how big her house was, how close to the sea level it was or something like that</p>

<p>And I forget the other one lol, but it was the same format with an EXCEPT section.</p>

<p>I put how big her house was . She said she slept on some cot, she was making tea and stew at some point, and she lives on the beach … I didn’t see anything about how big.</p>

<p>She didn’t talk about how big her house was (I think)</p>

<p>^All right, that’s what I put for the same reason.</p>

<p>This Reading section was particularly hard to finish on time, but the only question I wasn’t sure about was the one about something having “a broader base of support” (this was an answer choice) in the Harlem Renaissance passage. Anyone remember this question?</p>

<p>I think it was how big her house was. it said her house was by the sea at the beginning, pretty sure she slept on a cot, and when she was creating the dance she was making food.</p>

<p>Yes, I said it meant that a group of men and women sparked some movement because it specifically mentioned that a few individuals started it, not a “broad base of support”</p>

<p>Can anyone run down a summary of the tree one?</p>

<p>About what she didn’t talk about, I said she didn’t talk about what she ate. Her house is implied to be small when she sleeps on a cot and wakes up when the tea is going off implying that she is sleeping in the same room as the tea going off.</p>

<p>Crap. I also put the narrator created the dance.</p>

<p>shawn, she talked about the caribou soup</p>

<p>oh well guess i’m wrong.</p>

<p>damn i had that too.</p>

<p>What did you guys put for the animal that didn’t harm the palm trees? (Or something like that).</p>

<p>The options were goat, pig, mongoose, and rat.
I didn’t have time to read it so I guessed randomly and chose goat.</p>

<p>for the one about the WPA… I put that the Renaissance had a much broader base than originally thought. the other answer choice referred to “artists,” as the small group of people… not intellectuals (which was what was stated in the quote).</p>

<p>^yes, I questioned that one too. They mentioned goat, rat and pig somewhere in the passage as animals that were “harmful” to the palms, but i saw no mention of a mongoose, so that was what I chose. I can’t be sure though… I ran through it very very quickly.</p>