English B1A CLASS PACK - Bakersfield College

GROUP 2Directions:1. In a small group of 3-4 students, find the passage indicated in your book. Reread the passage.Then answer the questions about the passage. You may want to divide the questions up amongyour group members.PASSAGE page 31, beginning of 1 st full paragraphBeyond this dump there stood a great brickyard, with smoking chimneys. First they tookout the soil to make bricks, and then they filled it up again with garbage, which seemed toJurgis and Ona a felicitous arrangement, characteristic of an enterprising country likeAmerica. A little way beyond was another great hole, which they had emptied and not yetfilled up. This held water, and all summer it stood there, with the near-by soil draininginto it, festering and stewing in the sun; and then, when winter came, somebody cut theice on it, and sold it to the people of the city. This, too, seemed to the newcomers aneconomical arrangement; for they did not read the newspapers, and their heads were notfull of troublesome thoughts about "germs."QUESTIONSWhen were “germs” discovered by Luis Pasteur? (See footnote, p. 31.) Why doesn’t thefamily know about germs? What kind of dangers exist as a result of their ignorance?Find another reference in chapters 1-3 to disease (such as “blood poisoning” or“tuberculosis”) and write down the page and paragraph number.YOUR ANSWER______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________2. Later, you will read your passage, question, and answer to the whole class.3. As you listen to other groups’ passage, find the passage and mark it in your book. Jot down afew notes either in your book or in your notebook about what they say about the passage. (If youdon’t like to write in your book, you could fill your book with post-it notes and write on those.)62