Recipes, Wrappers, Reasoning and Rate : a Digest of the First Reading AssessmentNAEP, 1974 - 66 pages |
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Page vii - These include: (1) high metro — areas in or around cities with a population greater than 200,000 where a high proportion of the residents are in professional or managerial positions...
Page 26 - ... freely about each house and were the main meat source. Most of the population spoke no Spanish. Men wore long hair and concerned themselves chiefly with farming. The completion of the Guayaquil-Quito railway in 1908 brought the first real contacts with industrial civilization to the high inter-Andean valley. From this event gradually flowed not only technological changes, but new ideas and social institutions. Feudal social relationships no longer seemed right and immutable; medicine and public...
Page ix - II. Analyze what is read. A. Be able to trace sequences. B. Perceive the structure and organization of the work. C. See the techniques by which the author has created his effects. This objective is a degree more abstract than the first objective.
Page 26 - Until about thirty years ago, the village of Nayon seems to have been a self-sufficient agricultural community with a mixture of native and sixteenth century Spanish customs. Lands were abandoned when too badly eroded. The balance between population and resources allowed a minimum subsistence. A few traders exchanged goods between Quito and the villages in the tropical barrancas, all within a radius of ten miles. Houses had dirt floors, thatched roofs, and pole walls that were sometimes plastered...
Page viii - ... school serves are farmers or farm workers. 3. Extreme Affluent Suburb. Individuals in this group attend schools within the city limits or residential area served by a city with a population greater than l50,000; the area served by the school consists primarily of professional or managerial personnel. 4. Rest of Big City. These are students attending schools in a big city (population greater than 200,000) who are not included in either the Extreme Inner City or Extreme Affluent Suburb groups ....
Page 27 - ... or brick floors. Most of the population spoke Spanish. There was no resident priest, but an appointed government official and a policeman represented authority. A six-teacher school provided education. Clothing was becoming citified; for men it often included overalls for work and a tailored suit, white shirt, necktie, and felt hat for trips to Quito. Attendance at church was low and many festivals had been abandoned. Volleyball or soccer was played weekly in the plaza by young men who sometimes...
Page 30 - The wind whistled woefully as it wound its way through the nearly leafless trees. The pale yellow moon cast eerie shadows as it slipped in and out from behind the clouds like a blinking flashlight. Strange figures could be seen dashing and darting through the streets. Ghosts, goblins — what could they be? what do they want? Whom have they come to haunt? Beware...
Page 32 - ... means! Nor would you wish to engineer general happiness for everyone under static conditions. We must never be free of that feverish urge to push forward which is the saving grace of mankind." "That feverish urge has got us into a pretty sorry mess," I said. "It has indeed. And that's another reason why we can't be satisfied with a static culture. There's work to be done, if we're to survive. To stand still would be to perish. The discrepancy between man's technical power and the wisdom with...