A student notes question tests whether you can use the notes to meet the writer’s goal. Read the goal first, and name every demand it makes, including any limit introduced by words like without. A goal asking how something works needs both what someone does and how that brings about the result. Check those links in the notes, because a sentence can repeat true facts without explaining what the goal asks.
Hints
- Hint 1
Separate the goal into what to explain and what not to rely on. Read the words after how and after without.
- Hint 2
Look at the note about which forms appear nearer and which recede. How does that note connect to the ways Imani draws the foreground and background?
Step-by-step
Match the technique to the goal
Step 1Name the goal and its limit
Start with explain how Imani creates a sense of depth, which asks what makes her buildings look nearer or farther away. What limit does the goal add? The phrase without relying on differences in the depicted sizes of buildings rules out an explanation based on size changes. The answer needs to explain how she creates depth while keeping sizes similar, not list materials.
- Step 2
Link drawing techniques to distance
What makes a building seem near or far in these notes? Crisp, high-contrast forms tend to appear nearer, while softer, lower-contrast forms recede, or seem farther away. Imani gives the foreground precise ink outlines, dense cross-hatching, and saturated colors, making its edges and colors stand out. Her background has broken contours, sparse marks, and lightly blended colors, so it looks softer. The different line work and colors create depth, because they make the foreground seem closer than the background.
- Step 3
Test the whole explanation
The sentence about combining ink with colored pencil names materials, while the one about a crisp, prominent appearance describes only the foreground. The version using a smaller scale conflicts with the note that the buildings are at roughly similar sizes. The sentence beginning By giving foreground buildings links how she draws the foreground and background to depth while keeping sizes roughly similar. Choice D.