English B1A CLASS PACK - Bakersfield College

GROUP 4Directions: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 bottom of page 41All these industries were gathered into buildings near by, connected by galleries and railroads with themain establishment; and it was estimated that they had handled nearly a quarter of a billion of animalssince the founding of the plant by the elder Durham a generation and more ago. If you counted with it theother big plants--and they were now really all one--it was, so Jokubas informed them, the greatestaggregation of labor and capital ever gathered in one place.Also page 42, last six lines of the last paragraphSo guileless was he, and ignorant of the nature of business, that he did not even realize that he had becomean employee of Brown's, and that Brown and Durham were supposed by all the world to be deadly rivals--were even required to be deadly rivals by the law of the land, and ordered to try to ruin each other underpenalty of fine and imprisonment!QUESTIONSWhy does the book say that the companies were “supposed to be deadly rivals by the lawof the land”? What does that mean? Why were they supposed to be rivals? What does itmean that they were “all really one”?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.)64