A student notes question tests whether you can use the notes to do what the student asks. Read the goal first, and name the kind of fact it needs, especially when it asks for one exact detail. Then cross out sentences that miss the goal, even if their facts are true. Check what's left against the notes so each fact belongs to the right event. A true detail can still answer the wrong question.
Hints
- Hint 1
Read the sentence beginning “The student wants.” Identify the one fact it asks you to give about the first flight.
- Hint 2
The notes include more than one detail about time. Use the difference between when and how long to find the note that answers the goal.
Step-by-step
Use the goal to sort the facts
Step 1Name the kind of fact needed
Read indicate when the Wright brothers’ first flight occurred in the goal. What kind of fact would answer that? We need a point in time for the first flight. A sentence can be true and about the Wright brothers without telling us when this event happened.
- Step 2
Set aside facts that miss the goal
Which sentences answer something other than when the Wright brothers’ first flight occurred? Kitty Hawk, North Carolina tells us the place, and Orville Wright piloted tells us the pilot. The phrase built by brothers Orville and Wilbur Wright tells us who built the plane. These sentences give true facts, but none gives the time, so they miss the goal.
- Step 3
Check the time against the notes
The notes give the needed time: Their first flight occurred in 1903. Does this tell us when or how long? 1903 gives the year, while the 12-second detail elsewhere tells us how long the flight lasted. The sentence with in 1903 attaches that year to the first flight, so it does what the goal asks. Choice C.