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SAT Reading: Supporting an Inference from Walden with Evidence 25 Views
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The "strongest answer" is a common question in readings like those on the SAT - the strongest is usually that which maps most directly to the theme of the entire work. #Live strong.
Transcript
- 00:02
okay people here's the question first which choice gives the strongest
- 00:06
evidence where the answer to the previous question right so we're testing [text on screen]
- 00:08
what can go backwards in like your now we're going the previous question
- 00:11
because they're really testing us on this and it says it can't be most easily
- 00:14
inferred that after several moves to well then he bud and the answer there
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- 00:17
was eight few simple meals okay and you've got a lines there we gave him to
- 00:22
you right there for free on the screen so here we go it's the right answer
- 00:26
yeah it's see Thoreau is giving an example of how one may live simply if [cookies baking, forest scape]
- 00:31
he's anything like the honest guy he claims to be we're guessing he followed [man in woods]
- 00:35
his own advice and ate fewer meals himself well ants at a picnic can eat
- 00:41
pretty well but throw things their lives are too busy they might get a lot of [picnic]
- 00:45
exercise but Thoreau doesn't want to model his life on them and he certainly [man with an ant head]
- 00:49
doesn't suggest he wants an ant diet keeping the things you have to worry
- 00:53
about down to the number you can count on your fingers doesn't mean you have to [text on screen]
- 00:57
eat simply what if one of the ten things you do every day is mcduck low hollj all
- 01:03
right so get rid of be unless Thoreau learned how to eat iron the cone about
- 01:06
the railroads well certainly refers to commerce rather than diet so yeah the
- 01:11
answer is C and we're sticking to proportion there and it's a good 20th
- 01:15
century fiction work
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