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Shot down<br />

Initial understanding<br />

Identify structure<br />

Date:<br />

Name:<br />

The ideas in a well-written paragraph can be related to each other in one of these ways:<br />

• Main idea and supportive details<br />

• Cause and effect<br />

• Sequence of events<br />

• Compare and contrast<br />

Write the following abbreviations in the blanks to show how the ideas are related: MI/SD = main idea and<br />

supportive details, C/E = cause and effect, SOE = sequence of events and C/C = compare and contrast.<br />

(a)<br />

(b)<br />

(c)<br />

(d)<br />

(e)<br />

(f)<br />

(g)<br />

(h)<br />

It was a dangerous mission. German fighter planes protected the airfields. They<br />

patrolled the skies, looking for American and English planes to shoot down.<br />

As the bullets hit the plane, they cut its elevator cables. Yeager could not control his<br />

plane’s altitude.<br />

Yeager pulled open the cockpit. He rolled into the air. He fell toward the ground. Then<br />

his parachute opened.<br />

Yeager’s parachute snapped him to an almost dead stop in midair. Below him, his<br />

plane fell until it crashed to the earth.<br />

Yeager spoke no French. The French people spoke no English.<br />

Because of its long wings, the U-2 could fly higher than any other plane.<br />

At first his instruments did not show any problems. But then he felt a change. The<br />

plane tipped forward a little. Then, it tipped a little more!<br />

Viewing Sample<br />

The U-2 had one small bomb. But it was not for dropping on the enemy. It was to<br />

destroy the plane itself, before it crashed.<br />

(i)<br />

Because Powers was caught with a spy plane, the Soviet government said that<br />

Powers was a spy.<br />

(j)<br />

The Su-15 fighter pilots called to Flight 007 by radio. The pilot did not answer. The<br />

Su-15 fighter pilots then flew in front of Flight 007. The plane did not turn.<br />

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