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11th Grade Reading Comprehension Passages
Short passages with questions under each, written for Grade 11. Every question sends the reader back into the text, and every answer explains why.
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- Free Story About 500 words The Scholarship Essay Maren's scholarship essay follows every rule. Her English teacher keeps sending it back with the same four-word question.
- Free Science About 500 words The Science of Memory Why does an all-night study session pass the test and then vanish within a week? The answer lies in how memories are made, kept and found again.
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- With a plan Story About 700 words The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County Jim Smiley will bet on anything, and his trained frog, Dan'l Webster, is the pride of the mining camp. Then a stranger comes along. A tall tale by Mark Twain.
- With a plan Historical document About 600 words The Federalist No. 10: On Faction In 1787, James Madison asks how a free government can protect itself from groups that work against the rights of others.
- With a plan Science About 550 words How Supply Chains Work A coat on a store rack may have crossed three countries to get there. How do goods travel from factory to shelf, and why does the system sometimes break?
- With a plan Play About 650 words "Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow" An army gathers branches in a wood near Macbeth's castle. Inside, Macbeth hears a cry, then news he did not expect. From Shakespeare's tragedy.
- With a plan Speech About 650 words Lincoln on Labor and Learning In 1859, Abraham Lincoln spoke to farmers at a state fair in Milwaukee. Here he asks how hard work and education can best be combined.
- With a plan Opinion About 600 words Is Space Exploration Worth the Cost? With so many problems on Earth, why spend money exploring space? One writer makes the case, then answers the two strongest objections.
- With a plan Science About 650 words Bringing Back the Mammoth Woolly mammoths vanished thousands of years ago. Some scientists now want to make an animal very like one. What could be done, and should it be?
- With a plan Story About 700 words The Last Shift at Halloran's After sixty-one years, the hardware store on Front Street is closing. On the last Saturday, a part-time clerk counts screws and watches the owner.