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The sample items and answers are not intended to demonstrate the length of the actual test, nor should student responses be used as an indicator of student performance on the actual test.  \nTo offer students a variety of texts on the FAST ELA Reading tests, authentic and copyrighted stories, poems, and articles appear as they were originally published, as requested by the publisher and/or author. While these  \nreal-world examples do not always adhere to strict style conventions and/or grammar rules, inconsistencies among passages should not detract from students’ ability to understand and answer questions about the texts.  \nAll trademarks and trade names found in this publication are the property of their respective owners and are not associated with the publishers of this publication.  \nEvery effort has been made to trace the ownership of all copyrighted material and to secure the necessary permissions to reprint selections.  \nSome items are reproduced with permission from Cambium Assessment, Inc., as copyright holder or under license from third parties.  \nBLANK PAGE  \nPage 3  \nHow Aretha Franklin’s Legacy Extends into  \nOuter Space  \nby Marina Koren  \n1 In 2001, Aretha Franklin took the stage at Radio City Music Hall in New York City. She wore a bleach-white jumpsuit and feather boa, her hair teased up in her trademark style, glossy as obsidian. A guitar twanged over the cheers of a packed house.“What is that, Teddy?”Franklin said, addressing her son, the evening’s guitarist.“Play that riff again. We all know that, don’t we?” They did, and as the Queen of Soul broke into “Chain of Fools,” the crowd rose to their feet and clapped their hands sore.  \n2 Several months later, a telescope in Mexico City spotted a tiny pinprick of light in the sky during its nightly observations.  \n3 These events, of course, had nothing to do with each other. But their stories would align nearly 15 years later. The point of light turned out to be an asteroid, and astronomers decided to name it for the singer: 249516 Aretha.  \n4 To have an asteroid named after you is an honor, but Franklin . . . already had plenty of those. The legendary singer had accumulated, over a career spanning five decades, more than 100 singles on the Billboard charts, 18 Grammy Awards, and numerous other accolades. The state of Michigan, where Franklin grew up, had her voice designated a “natural resource.” That voice was powerful, velvety, unmatched. When Franklin asked the crowd to sing along with her at Radio City, no one would dare; she was met with “complete silence,”according to a New York Times review of the 2001 performance.  \n5 If anything, the honor fell on the asteroid.  \n6 The asteroid population kind of needed it, too. The first asteroids tobe discovered, in the early 1800s, were named for figures in Roman and Greek mythology. As more were found, astronomers began naming the space rocks after themselves, and then after famous individuals in culture, science, art, music, and literature. In those times, all of these fields were dominated by men, so women working and contributing to the same arenas were overlooked.  \n7 This is what led Amy Mainzer, an astronomer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, to start naming asteroids after women.“My postdoctoral fellow Dr. Carrie Nugent brought to my attention the fact that although many asteroids have been named, very few have been named to honor the contributions of women (and particularly women of color),” Mainzer wrote in a blog post in 2015. Mainzer leads the NEOWISE mission, which uses an Earth-orbiting space telescope to search for asteroids and comets. In addition to Franklin, Mainzer has named asteroids after the civil-rights activist Rosa Parks, the abolitionists Sojourner Truth and Harriet Tubman, and the Nobel Peace Prize–w","cbCaiouEzytr5PZf","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiouEzytr5PZf","pdf",17433248,24,"English","# FAST ELA Reading Sample Test Materials Answer Key\n## Answer Key for Sample Items\n## Reading Passage: How Aretha Franklin’s Legacy Extends into Outer Space","[{\"question\":\"What does the FAST ELA Grade 8 Reading Sample Test answer key include?\",\"answer\":\"It provides the correct response(s) for each item in the sample test, along with brief explanations for selected answers.\"},{\"question\":\"Are the sample items and answers meant to represent the actual FAST ELA test?\",\"answer\":\"No. The sample items and answers are not intended to demonstrate the length of the actual test, and they should not be used to indicate student performance on the real assessment.\"},{\"question\":\"What is the reading passage included in the materials about?\",\"answer\":\"The included passage connects Aretha Franklin’s legacy to space, describing how asteroid naming aligns with her impact and later scientific decisions to name an asteroid for her.\"}]","FAST ELA Reading Sample Test Materials Answer Key - Grade 8 | PDF",1790720196]