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Comparing interpretations of the Great Plains
How does Interpretation B differ from Interpretation A about the Great Plains?
Explain your answer based on what it says in Interpretations A and B.
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Marking points
- 1 Uses content from Interpretation B about hostility, danger, fierce storms, blizzards, death, fires or ugliness.
- 2 Uses content from Interpretation A about the land being a gift, tame, beautiful, strengthening, healing or something Native Americans adapted to.
- 3 Makes an explicit difference between the interpretations rather than describing them separately.
- 4 Develops the comparison enough for Level 2 credit.
Full-mark answer
Interpretation B differs because it presents the Great Plains as a hostile and dangerous environment: Parrish says storms were fierce, blizzards could mean death and fires could destroy everything. Interpretation A presents the Plains positively, as a gift from the Great Spirit that was tame, strengthening and healing for Native Americans.
Why this answer loses marks
Interpretation B says the Great Plains were dangerous.
This only uses one interpretation, so it does not prove how it differs from Interpretation A's positive view.