This text is for grade 7 informational reading. While reading, students should cite several pieces of textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text. Students should also be able to determine two or more central ideas in the text and analyze their development over the course of the text; provide an objective summary of the text, and analyze the interactions between individuals, events, and ideas in the text (e.g., how ideas influence individuals or events, or how individuals influence ideas or events) Lastly, students should trace and evaluate the argument and specific claims in the text, assessing whether the reasoning is sound and the evidence is relevant and sufficient to support the claims (License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/)
