Write some comparative claims about literary works from two different cultures
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see if you can write a few claim statements about these two short stories from different cultures. "the lady or the tiger? ", by frank stockton, is a classic from
england, and "a lady's tale" was written by the famous russian writer anton chekhov. both men lived at around the same time, but in countries with very
different traditions and social systems. how are the two authors' ideas about love similar? how are they different?
click the activity button to print or download the you try it worksheet, and use the questions to write several claim statements about the stories.
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Which inference can a reader make based on the information in the excerpt?

(1) fire extended humans’ geographical boundaries by allowing them to travel into regions that were previously too cold to explore. (2) it also kept predators away, allowing early humans to sleep securely. (3) fire, in fact, has been a significant factor in human development and progress in many ways. (4) other obvious benefits of fire are its uses in cooking and in hunting. (5) probably even more important, however, is that learning to control fire allowed people to change the very rhythm of their lives. (6) before fire, the human daily cycle coincided with the rising and setting of the sun. (7) with fire, though, humans gained time to think and talk about the day’s events and to prepare strategies for coping with tomorrow. the sentence that expresses the main idea is: (type the number of the sentence. then click “go.”)