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ELA Drills, Intermediate: Main Idea 1. Which of the statements is best supported by the passage?
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- 00:04
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
- 00:17
first she picked up two bags candy and put them in her cart and she saw the
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- 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
- 00:34
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
- 00:41
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]
- 00:49
making up for it with little shopping trip here we're told a lot in this
- 00:53
passage question is which of our four answer choices is supported by the text..
- 00:58
So let's take them one by one option B says that Jess is dressing is a mummy
- 01:02
for Halloween what kind of mummy would this be exactly [A mummy dressed for halloween wearing a tall black hat]
- 01:05
The kind that wears a tall black hat and curly black nails and look we don't want
- 01:09
to tell a mummy how they can or cannot dress but something seems off here so
- 01:13
let's keep looking option C; Jess hates candy not likely [Jess holding a shmoop bag of candy in the air]
- 01:16
since she threw two bags of them into her cart okay so she might just be handing
- 01:20
them out but even still there's nothing here to indicate this Jessa's anti candy [Jess handing out candy bars to people]
- 01:24
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]
- 01:31
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]
- 01:35
eating those two bags of candy all by herself
- 01:37
Option A that gets it right - Jess is dressing like a witch for Halloween we [Jess dressed as a witch staring in a mirror]
- 01:42
never see the word witch but it's strongly implied by the context clues
- 01:46
black hat, black curly nails, green face paint all classic witch stuff and we're
- 01:51
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]
- 01:55
witch in a school play yep option A is our answer well the fact that we didn't get
- 01:59
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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