January 2009 SAT Critical Reading Discussion

<p>was the last question the one about the sun imagery?</p>

<p>i put that it contrasted two very different lifestyles?</p>

<p>The question in the painting passage towards the end...something about the transition from the beginning part to the story at the end. Did you guys pick the answer that had the word "anecdote" in it?</p>

<p>bet, i thought that was just an extended example of the things were losing with an increasingly homogeneous world.</p>

<p>also -- did anyone else get the CR section of Newton? and non-Newtonian focus on the extremes in nature? and the 20 questions game?</p>

<p>EXPERIMENTAL???</p>

<p>it was very fallibilistic and epistemological.</p>

<p>noooooooooo</p>

<p>there goes my 800.</p>

<p>yeah zenythz thats what i put.
Paige: thats what i put</p>

<p>zenythz, i totes forrizzle did. high five!</p>

<p>zen- i think so... he started w/ an anecdote... pretty sure about that one, i remember the others being BS.</p>

<p>paige- yes, but i remember a more specific explanation being there, concerning knowledge.</p>

<p>im actually crying tears of joy- I THINK I BALLED THIS SECTION
the only one ive gotten wrong so far is nonplussed? any chance of this being experimental?</p>

<p>bet- but it's not about the nomad's knowledge specifically, it's just a small example. i think we both agree here actually!</p>

<p>sun imagery contrasted lifestyles yes
newton was experimental i didn't have any Newton</p>

<p>can someone write what was the "1950s" question you guys were talking about on page 8</p>

<p>in one of the cr ( i think normads), why did he post the questions at the beginning of the 2nd paragraph? to set the tone?</p>

<p>I rmr that question but didnt put tone. I put something else</p>

<p>what was going on with the first paragraph of sea nomads?</p>

<p>giving distinct description of sea nomads, right?</p>

<p>and also, author was going from past to present??</p>

<p>ingette: I put the same thing for both of those questions</p>

<p>agree: to set tone for rest of passage
description of sea nomads yes
1950s question was what the authors would agree about, we are saying that they'd agree that in the 1950s they couldn't have predicted how big rock was gonna be</p>

<p>^ distinctiveness was in my answer.</p>

<p>The passage about scientific method....what does the quotation at the end convey? I said that science has failed to address issues of humanity.</p>

<p>so past to future or tone for diversity discussion?</p>

<p>i vote past to future because of tense, "what will happen?"</p>