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On the night of the blizzard, Sam’s little sister didn’t come home from her friend’s house. The phones were down. The snow came sideways, erasing the road.
Sam took the old sled and a lantern and pushed into the white. Every step sank to his knees. He shouted her name, but the wind tore the word apart before it left his mouth.
Halfway there, he found her — huddled in the bus shelter with her friend’s mother, who had tried to walk her home and been forced to stop.
He pulled them both home on the sled, one slow step at a time. Later, wrapped in blankets, his sister fell asleep against his shoulder. Sam stayed awake, listening to the house creak under the weight of snow, and thought that he had never felt so tired or so strong.
Before the 1450s, books in Europe were copied by hand, often by monks. A single Bible could take a scribe more than a year to finish, so books were rare and expensive.
Around 1440, Johannes Gutenberg developed a printing press with movable metal type. Individual letters could be arranged, inked and pressed onto paper again and again, then rearranged for the next page.
Within fifty years, printing presses had spread across Europe and millions of books had been printed. More people learned to read, and new ideas in science, religion and politics spread faster than ever before.
Many historians consider the printing press one of the most important inventions in human history because of how it changed the way knowledge was shared.
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Worksheets › Grade 7 English › Integration of Knowledge & Ideas › Integration of Knowledge & Ideas
Free Grade 7 English worksheet (Common Core RL.7.9): compare "The Weight of Snow" with "The Printing Press Changes the World" and analyze how each develops its ideas. Skill: Compare texts and evaluate arguments. Level: Grade 7 — also suits Year 8 (UK).
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