The Key to Disaster Survival? Friends and Neighbors Shankar Vedantam

DIRECTIONS: Complete the following items after you have listened to the podcast.


Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly.
Toward the end of the podcast “The Key to Disaster Survival? Friends and Neighbors,” what does Vedantam say about the strength of communities? In his words, how does this relate to the way communities can rebuild after disasters?



(a) Analyze how the author unfolds an analysis or series of ideas or events, including how they are introduced.
What anecdote, or brief story about a real person or event, does Vedantam use to introduce the topic of “The Key to Disaster Survival? Friends and Neighbors”? Explain how effective the use of this anecdote is as an introduction.

(b) Analyze how the author unfolds an analysis or series of ideas or events, including the connections that are drawn between them.
Consider the stories in “The Key to Disaster Survival? Friends and Neighbors” that Vedantam shares about people who received help from neighbors during and after natural disasters. How are these stories connected?