Duuction to Informational Texts: Mastery Test Su
Identify each passage as either functional text or expository text.
functional text
expository text
Warm-up
Run
Weights
Training Schedule
Monday Tuesday Wednesday
Thursday
2 miles
1 mile 2 miles 1 mile
10 miles 15 miles 10 miles 15 miles
Arms
Legs Abs Arms
Friday
2 miles
10 miles
Legs
Saturday
1 mile
15 miles
Abs
In the Middle Ages, members of the noble class used arsenic to poison those
who stood in their way. Many of those same nobles found out that by taking
small amounts of arsenic every day, they could build up a resistance to it. A side
effect was that their hair turned white. People soon began to associate white hair
with nobility. In time, the nobles stopped using arsenic as a weapon. However,
the tradition of white hair signifying a high station in life continues today. In the
English courts, judges and other officials wear white wigs.
During the 1950s, Duncan introduced the first plastic yo-yos and the Butterfly
shaped yo-yo, which is much easier to land on the string for complex tricks. The
biggest yo-yo boom in history hit in 1962, following the use of TV advertising
Financial losses at the end of the boom, and a costly lawsuit to protect the yo-yo
trademark, forced the Duncan family out of business in the late 1960s. Flambeau
Products, which made Duncan's plastic models bought the companv and still

What do you think inspires people to come up with great inventions? explain in 4 sentences

Correct sentence. when her brother boarded the ship bound for america, christina stood on the pier and tearfully waved goodbye.

Asap plz which sentence from this excerpt of jefferson davis’s inaugural address indicates that secession was the confederacy’s way of reclaiming its legal powers? an agricultural people, whose chief interest is the export of a commodity required in every manufacturing country, our true policy is peace, and the freest trade which our necessities will permit . . there can be but little rivalry between ours and any manufacturing or navigating community, such as the northeastern states of the american union. it must follow, therefore, that a mutual interest would invite good will and kind offices. if, however, passion or the lust of dominion should cloud the judgment or inflame the ambition of those states, we must prepare to meet the emergency and to maintain, by the final arbitrament of the sword, the position which we have assumed among the nations of the earth. we have entered upon the career of independence, and it must be inflexibly pursued. through many years of controversy with our late associates, the northern states, we have vainly endeavored to secure tranquillity, and to obtain respect for the rights to which we were entitled. as a necessity, not a choice, we have resorted to the remedy of separation; and henceforth our energies must be directed to the conduct of our own affairs, and the perpetuity of the confederacy which we have formed. if a just perception of mutual interest shall permit us peaceably to pursue our separate political career, my most earnest desire will have been fulfilled. but, if this be denied to us, and the integrity of our territory and jurisdiction be assailed, it will but remain for us, with firm resolve, to appeal to arms and invoke the blessings of providence on a just cause . .