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12th Grade Reading Comprehension Passages
Short passages with questions under each, written for Grade 12. Every question sends the reader back into the text, and every answer explains why.
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- Free Story About 550 words The Gap Year Wyatt wants a year on a trail crew before college. His father has his own reasons to worry. Can they both be right?
- Free Science About 550 words How Algorithms Shape What You See Why does a feed show you this clip and not that one? How recommendation systems choose, rank and learn from what you do.
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- With a plan Story About 550 words The Committee for a Better Lunch A student committee spends a whole school year working to improve the cafeteria menu. Its final report is a proud one.
- With a plan Historical document About 650 words The Federalist No. 51: Checks and Balances In 1788, James Madison explains how a government can be built so that its own parts keep one another in check.
- With a plan History About 600 words The History of Zero For most of history, nobody wrote a number for nothing. How a mark for an empty place became one of mathematics' great ideas.
- With a plan Poem Short When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer A famous short poem from 1865. A speaker sits through a lecture about the stars, and then does something unexpected.
- With a plan Speech About 650 words The Man in the Arena In a 1910 speech in Paris, Theodore Roosevelt tells an audience of educated listeners who really deserves the credit.
- With a plan Opinion About 600 words Should AI Write Your Essay? A machine can now write a school essay in seconds. An argument about what essays are for, and what students lose or gain.
- With a plan Speech About 550 words Is It a Crime for a Citizen to Vote? In 1873, Susan B. Anthony faced trial for voting. Before the trial, she argued that she had committed no crime at all.
- With a plan Story About 650 words The Commencement Speech The night before graduation, a valedictorian with a finished speech finds something in the attic that changes what she wants to say.