The Final Passage

Reading Comprehension

Test 7, Passage 3 — Crop bacteria

Highlights

Attend this class if you want to learn how to crush scientific passages with an embarrassingly rudimentary knowledge of science or if you want to watch Chris try to draw on his whiteboard a microbe in shining armor stopping a hatchet-wielding phytopathogen from attacking an unproductive plant in distress. Chris taught students to uncover the passage's purpose and direction by evaluating whether sentences needed proof or served to prove something already said. In two challenging inference questions, Chris showed students why looking to the passage for textual support is often a total waste of time.