Hunting for Main Ideas!

A Why people climb to the top of Mt. Washington.

B Why Mt. Washington is smaller than the Rockies.

C Why the weather can change so fast at the top of Mt. Washington.

D Why the top of Mt. Washington is treacherous.

A How much water trees give off.

B How trees give off water.

C What trees give off the least water.

D How trees take in water.

A How cold it gets.

B Why people don’t catch cold.

C What the coldest region is like.

D What the North Pole is like.

A What a mystery is.

B How far salmon travel.

C What salmon remember.

D How salmon find their way home.

A John Robert Lewis's life story

B The Civil Rights Movement

C A new comic book memoir

A "Today, Congressman Lewis could not be happier about his new comic book memoir."

B "'Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Story', was a pivotal work in the Civil Rights Movement."

C "The comic tells the story of Lewis's life as part of the historic movement, and how he became part of the March on Washington, where Lewis was one of then speakers invited to address the huge crowd that gathered at the Washington Monument."

A "Lewis says the he was moved to leave the relative safety of college and step into the fray of the sometimes-violent Civil Rights movement by a comic book he read when he was eighteen years old."

B "He even wrote his graduate thesis, which is a long paper that students write before earning a MAsters Degree, on the history and impact of the comic."

C "Lewis has dedicated his life to public service and to advocating for Civil Rights. In fact, he is the last surviving member ofthe Big Siz leaders of the American Civil Rights movement in the 1960s."

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