The document analyzes how a text "makes connections among and distinctions between individuals, ideas, or events" through comparisons and categories. It provides examples of how a text can draw connections or make distinctions between people, events, or concepts to further understanding. The student explains that connections show similarities, while distinctions show differences. The document also provides a dictionary definition of "comparison" and asks how the analogy "She was quiet as a mouse" draws a connection through similarity.

1. Standard: 8.R.RI.03 Analyze how a text makes
connections among and distinctions
between individuals, ideas, or events (e.g.,
through comparisons, analogies, or
categories).
Samantha Tilford

2.  I can explain the distinctions and connections
between individuals, ideas, or events in an
informational text.

3.  What are distinctions and connections? How
can these be made between people, events,
or ideas?
 How does this lead to a greater
understanding of the text?

4.  Dictionary: A comparison between two
things.
 Looking for things that are SIMMILAR.
 What is the analogy of :
 She was quiet as a mouse.

5. The Similarities between the Great Depression and the Current Recession
By JenRubino
On October 29, 1929, America had what is now known as ‘Black Thursday’. Black
Thursday was when the stock market crashed. After black Thursday, America’s
economy that was already having trouble, started getting worse and worse. People
couldn’t pay their loans from banks, people were losing their jobs, losing their
homes and many people couldn’t provide for their families.
During the beginning of the Great Depression, and during the aftermath of Black
Thursday, President Herbert Hoover tried to reassure America that the economy
was stable. But the American people didn’t agree. In the 1932 Presidential Election,
Herbert Hoover was defeated, and Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected by a landslide.
After his election, people felt a new feeling of hope and confidence in the country.
Similar to President Obama’s Election. On March 4, 1933, thousands of Americans
descended to the Nation’s capital to watch their new President’s inauguration
ceremony. After his inauguration speech, people had real confidence that things
were going to get better. Shortly after President Roosevelt took office, He
developed a new economic plan to end the Depression, The New Deal. Slowly, the
New Deal started creating more jobs, and the Economy began to recover. By the
end of the 1930’s the United States was out of the Depression.

6. There are many similarities between the Great Depression and the Recession we are in
now. At the beginning of this recession, Our Stock Market, the ‘DOW’, began having out
of control days. One day it even fell 600 points. It was northing like Black Thursday, but it
made Americans become very worried. After that, more Americans began losing their
jobs, houses were getting foreclosed and a lot of Americans began having to worry about
how to provide for their families. Throughout this, President Bush tried to reassure
Americans that the economy was stable, but many Americans didn’t agree. Similar to the
Great Depression.
On January 20, 2009, when Barack Obama was inaugurated, Americans once again felt
that same hope and optimism. Shortly after taking office, on February 17, 09, President
Obama signed his Economic Stimulus Package into law.
Many of the things that happened during the Depression, happened to us during this
recession, but during the Depression, things were a lot worse. The New Deal worked for
America back then, and hopefully the Stimulus Package will work now.
We are not out of the Recession yet, but many polls are starting to show that many
Americans believe that we are beginning to come out of the Recession.

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8. Grades for license.
By Gage M.
That’s what some schools are saying to there students. The schools that are doing this
are requiring them to have a 2.0gpa to get there license. In a attempt to raise grades.
Which means if you are having hard time in school you cannot get your license till you
can get your grades up. Which brings up question is driving a right or a privilege.
If they require people to have a 2.0 then as soon as they get there license then
when they get it then they will stop trying. Which means in actuality there grades will
decrease. This means that there plan will back fire and make there grades go down
instead of what they wanted. That’s one of the reasons this will not work.
Some people have parents without jobs or cars and need to be able to get a job to
support there family. But if they have low grades they will not be able to do that.
Which makes them have to live without money for a while.
The big reason they should not make people have to have an 2.0 to have a license is
the experience. All of us here the stories from are parents about how fun they had
driving. And how when they were driving they felt so cool and all there friends said
they were cool its all a big line of cool.
Some people might say that if you make someone get a 2.0 to get there license they
will do it at all costs. Well there wrong because if someone cannot get good grades or
they just don’t want to they will just wait until they turn 18 when they can get it any
way.
In conclusion all this shows you why not making kids get a 2.0 for there license is the
wrong way to go. Like I said some people do not have the means to do anything without
there license.