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xxComprehensive questions provide targeted practice for%u00a0key%u00a0reading and%u00a0writing skills. The in-depth questions and writing prompts that follow each reading guide students from understanding what a text is about to analyzing how the content is presented and why. Understanding and Interpreting These questions lay the foundation for analysis %u2014 they guide students to an understanding of the content and move them toward an interpretation. 219from An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around UsEd Yong The following excerpt is from the 2022 best seller An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us , written by the Pulitzer Prize%u2013winning science journalist Ed Yong. QUESTIONS Understanding and Interpreting 1. In paragraph 1, why might Robin Wall Kimmerer%u2019s expression in her graduation photo not have matched her memory of the time? 2. By the end of the essay, how successfully has Kimmerer made the argument that her initial question constitutes a scientific inquiry? 3. Why does Kimmerer imagine she has always been keenly aware of and interested in goldenrod and asters? 4. In paragraph 16, what does Kimmerer suggest is the difference between the plants%u2019 names and their songs? As part of your response, consider what Kimmerer learns from the traditional knowledge of a Navajo woman in paragraph 19. Extending Beyond the Text 5 Robin Wall Kimmerer Since eyes define nature%u2019s palette, an animal%u2019s palette tells you whose eyes it is trying to catch.You can apply the same logic to flowers. In 1992, Lars Chittka and Randolf Menzel analyzed 180 flowers and worked out what kind of eye would be best at discriminating their colors. The answer %u2014 an eye with green, blue, and UV trichromacy %u2014 is exactly what bees and many other insects have. You might think that these pollinators evolved eyes that see flowers well, but that%u2019s not what happened. Their style of trichromacy evolved hundreds of millions of years before the first flowers appeared, so the latter must have evolved to suit the former. Flowers evolved colors that ideally tickle insect eyes.I find these connections profound, in a way that makes me think differently about the act of sensing itself. Sensing can feel passive, as if eyes and other sense organs were intake valves through which animals absorb and receive the stimuli around them. But over time, the simple act of seeing recolors the world. Guided by evolution, eyes are living paintbrushes. Flowers, frogs, fish, feathers, and fruit all show that sight affects what is seen, and that much of what we find beautiful in nature has been shaped by the vision of our fellow animals. Beauty is not only in the eye of the beholder. It arises because of that eye. 1. From an evolutionary standpoint, why would flowers benefit if they developed coloration that stood out to insects? And how does this coloration reciprocally benefit insects? 2. How does Yong%u2019s explanation flesh out Kimmerer%u2019s argument about the connection between natural beauty and science? Guided TourGuided Questions make sure students are engaged and on track. There are quick checks for understanding accompanying all anthology chapter prose readings. These Guided Questions are placed strategically within each essay, speech, or short story to ensure students catch key points. 239Bettmann/Getty Images In this 1934 photograph, students from Howard University in Washington, D.C., stand outside the Daughters of the American Revolution Museum wearing nooses around their necks as part of a protest against the National Crime Conference%u2019s decision not to include lynching in its program. What might Bryan Stevenson consider the reason lynching was not addressed at this conference? To what extent would Stevenson consider the subject of lynching to have been effectively addressed since then? Explain. or both. Meanwhile, in capital trials today the accused is often the only person of color in the courtroom and illegal racial discrimination in jury selection continues to be widespread. In Houston County, Alabama, prosecutors have excluded 80 percent of qualified AfricanAmericans from serving as jurors in death penalty cases. More than eight in ten American lynchings between 1889 and 1918 occurred in the South, and more than eight in ten of the more than 1,400 legal executions carried out in this country since 1976 have been in the South, where the legacy of the nation%u2019s embrace of slavery lingers. Today death sentences are disproportionately meted out to African-Americans accused of crimes against white victims; efforts to combat racial bias and create federal protection against it in death penalty cases remain thwarted by the familiar rhetoric of states%u2019 rights. Regional data demonstrate that the modern American death penalty has its origins in racial terror and is, in the words of Bright, the legal scholar, %u201ca direct descendant of lynching.%u201d In the face of this national ignominy, there is still an astonishing failure to acknowledge, discuss, or address the history of lynching. Many of the communities where lynchings took place have gone to great lengths to erect markers and memorials to the Civil War, to What does Stevenson mean by %u201cnational ignominy%u201d (par. 28) and what tone does this vivid diction create? What evidence has built to this claim?33 In the face of this national ignominy, there is still an astonishing failure to acknowledge, discuss, or address the history of lynching. Many of the communities where lynchings 184 took place have gone to great lengths to erect Kha, on the street Dong Khoi, where Phuong had worked as a hostess for the two years since her graduation from college. It was Vivien%u2019s idea to treat the family to dinner at Nam Kha, a way to celebrate the halfway point in her vacation and an option Phuong would never have suggested, the restaurant%u2019s offerings being far more than Phuong or her family could ever afford. %u201cBut it%u2019s a crime, don%u2019t you think?%u201d Vivien said, glancing over the entr%u00e9es. Their table was by the reflecting pool, across from which two young women sat on a cushioned dais, wearing silken, ephemeral ao dai1 and plucking gently at the sixteen strings of the zithers braced on their laps. %u201cYou should be able to eat where you work at least once in your lifetime.%u201d %u201cThe real crime is five dollars for morning glory fried in garlic,%u201d Mrs. Ly said. She sold silk at Cho Ben Thanh and possessed the eyes of an experienced negotiator, smooth and unreadable as the beads of an abacus. %u201cI can buy this for a dollar at the market.%u201d projected an air of confidence and ease, unlike her brothers. Hanh and Phuc were speechless, their silk-bound menus considerably more handsome than any textbook they owned. %u201cI can get used to this.%u201d %u201cThat%u2019s the spirit.%u201d The guests at the neighboring table rose, and on the way out two of them paused beside Phuong, the brunette taking a photograph of the musicians strumming their zithers. %u201cThey%u2019re just like butterflies,%u201d she said in an Australian accent, squinting at the image on her camera. Eavesdropping on them, Phuong was relieved not to be the object of their fascination. %u201cSo delicate and tiny.%u201d %u201cI%u2019ll bet they never worry about what they eat.%u201d Her friend flipped open her compact to inspect her lipstick. %u201cThose dresses look stitched onto them.%u201d Night after night, Phuong had observed the customs of tourists like these, her degree in biology no more than a memory as she opened the doors of Nam Kha with a small bow. Having come to dine on elegantly presented peasant 1 A traditional Vietnamese long dress that has two slits on the left and right sides extending from the wearer%u2019s waist to the ground. Traditionally this garment has been worn by both men and women, though it is now commonly worn only by women. %u2014 Eds. 15How does paragraph 16 help to explain why Phuong reacts strongly to her sister%u2019s comments in the restaurant?22Copyright %u00a9 Bedford, Freeman & Worth Publishers. Distributed by Bedford, Freeman & Worth Publishers. For review purposes only. Not for redistribution.