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Common Core 8th Grade 1.3 Reading Literary Texts. Which evidence from the text best supports the inference that Gorgons are dangerous?

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Common Core 8th Grade 1.3 Reading Literary Texts. Which evidence from the text best supports the inference that Gorgons are dangerous?


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Sorry And here's your shmoop du jour brought to you

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by gorgons with attitude We'd hate to be the mom

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of a gorgon Going through puberty don't mean jack out

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the following passage from perseus and the gorgons Awful in

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there down a long one And don't worry we're still

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here When you're done he's swimming away i forgot no

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Thanks What All right along we can infer from the

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passage that the gorgons are dangerous Which evidence from the

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text best supports this inference and hear your tension All

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right well let's from up we recommend avoiding all direct

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eye contact with gorgons seriously who once made a bad

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gorgon paan and suffering consequences and well we thought it

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rocked let's look at answer a first while medusa is

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dangerous for hairstyle alone gives a new meaning to the

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phrase looks can kill A actually talked about her weakness

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is not what makes are dangerous and even though this

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means the other gorgons can't be defeated decapitation style it

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isn't the best answer to the question and has nothing

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to do with going in style Your answer is feeling

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so you both referred to the gorgons physical appearance and

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even though we wouldn't want to meet gordon in a

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dark alleyway just gigantic or looking a certain way doesn't

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make something dangerous since that's all the detail we have

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in those answers we can scratch off both b and

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c which leaves us with answered deep remember that hole

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up if looks could kill thing if let's kill great

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old medusa and her gorgon friends mean it by heart

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ask your parents they were great today If you look

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directly at it gor gon you turn into stone permanently

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like a garden gnome permanent that makes me the most

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dangerous and the most correct of our potential answers And

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hey we're kind of jealous that gorgon save a bunch 00:01:56.397 --> [endTime] of money on lawn decoration We thought it rocked

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