Sample+Long+Answers

 How to get FULL CREDIT on long answers  //Example question 1 //  Explain this analogy:  // Sal is to Isabel as Colony is to State //  **FULL CREDIT ANSWER ** DETAILS + INTERPRETATION (SO WHAT?) __Your name, or what you were called, was important.__ //Sal// was the name given to Isabel by the Locktons when they bought her, and she didn’t like it, so at the end of the book she changed her name to show she was independent. Great Britain, and some Americans called MA, PA, etc. colonies, even though the patriots viewed themselves as independent, and therefore states. __Names were important, because they helped not just to identify who you were but how much power, respect, and independence you had.__ 

//Example question 2: // How would __Chains__ have been different if Isabel couldn’t read? Also, what “bigger picture message” about //words// (i.e. reading and writing) does the book have?  <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">DETAILS + INTERPRETATION (SO WHAT?) <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">__Knowing how to read gave Isabel access to many forms of power, including the law, and inspiring ideas.__ By being able to read the will which gave her freedom, and then read and write a pass for herself, __Isabel used the law to her advantage__. Through reading the words of Common Sense, Isabel found ways to be inspired by the Patriots fight for freedom, and __this gave her the courage, and therefore the power, to escape.__ <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">
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