https://www.khanacademy.org/ela/10th-grade-reading-and-vocabulary/xd89aabc5d5847a2b:craft-and-structure-10/xd89aabc5d5847a2b:analyzing-text-structure-10/a/beyond-the-basics-how-specific-sentences-develop-an-authors-ideas-10 2026-05-21T11:40:40.471298507Z Analyzing how sentences develop an author’s ideas | Guided practice Learn how to analyze the way specific sentences develop an author's ideas. article https://www.khanacademy.org/ela/9th-grade-reading-and-vocabulary/xd45453bfd2ae8614:craft-and-structure-9/xd45453bfd2ae8614:analyzing-text-structure-9/v/parts-make-a-whole-g9-g10 2025-07-09T15:00:57.012533325Z How parts of an argument make a whole Arguments are made of up smaller claims that build towards a larger picture. Learn how individual claims work together to support an argument by listening along with David to his favorite (fictional) podcast, "Grumpy Li'l Guy." Dimbin's full shopping cart rant: Loose shopping carts: are they a sign of moral decline? The best evidence I have yet encountered that ours is a broken nation, unburdened by the slightest social cohesion, is the fact that I keep tripping over abandoned grocery store shopping carts. A nation is judged by its failings, and while it may seem inconsequential to you, while it may seem petty and unnecessary, I hold that you can tell quite a bit about a country by whether or not its people put their carts away when they've finished grocery shopping. When I see a flock of shopping carts, uncared-for and unloved, clogging the parking lot of my local Sav-a-Bunch, I feel a fury that borders on woe: why don't we care about one another? Cart abandonment as social contagion The desire to put away your grocery cart is a socially considerate one, but studies indicate that social disorder is infectious. A 2008 study in the Netherlands found that if you see graffiti in an alleyway, you'll feel more entitled to litter there. If five people haven't put their carts away, you're less likely to put yours away. Not putting away your shopping cart is another kind of social contagion. Who it hurts Why is this bad, you might be asking? What's the trouble here? Well, shopping carts don't have brakes. They can hit little kids, they can block handicapped spaces, they can damage cars, they can trundle out of the parking lot and into the road, causing car crashes. We've already become so alienated, so remote from our neighbors. Putting your cart away is one of the smallest gestures that indicate we're looking out for one another. Additionally, most grocery stores don't have a clerk on "cart duty" to reclaim wayward carts. Cashiers and stockists go on forays to gather shopping carts from where responsible shoppers have corralled them, and every extra moment those workers have to spend collecting the carts that have been strewn around the lot is another moment they can't spend helping customers make purchases. Not putting your cart away contributes to longer lines at the grocery store. Those stores that do have cart-wranglers certainly don't appreciate having to hunt down wayward carts, and worse, can sometimes have carts shoved at them by unruly shoppers. Is that the sort of society we want to have? Legitimate reasons to abandon your cart Now I recognize that there are several legitimate reasons why a person might not be able to return a shopping cart easily. Perhaps you've got lots of children and can't wrangle the kids and the groceries by themselves. Perhaps you have a physical disability and can't return the cart on your own. … But the fact that a minority of people cannot return carts means that the rest of us, as a SOCIETY, must support you and fill in the gaps. If you see an orphaned shopping cart, return it to the cart corral, and go on being a productive member of society. David Rheinstrom video https://cdn.kastatic.org/ka_thumbnails_cache/5044865c-58a2-4cd1-948f-7bcd9ebd2ead_1280_720_base.png How parts of an argument make a whole Arguments are made of up smaller claims that build towards a larger picture. Learn how individual claims work together to support an argument by listening along with David to his favorite (fictional) podcast, "Grumpy Li'l Guy." Dimbin's full shopping cart rant: Loose shopping carts: are they a sign of moral decline? The best evidence I have yet encountered that ours is a broken nation, unburdened by the slightest social cohesion, is the fact that I keep tripping over abandoned grocery store shopping carts. A nation is judged by its failings, and while it may seem inconsequential to you, while it may seem petty and unnecessary, I hold that you can tell quite a bit about a country by whether or not its people put their carts away when they've finished grocery shopping. When I see a flock of shopping carts, uncared-for and unloved, clogging the parking lot of my local Sav-a-Bunch, I feel a fury that borders on woe: why don't we care about one another? Cart abandonment as social contagion The desire to put away your grocery cart is a socially considerate one, but studies indicate that social disorder is infectious. A 2008 study in the Netherlands found that if you see graffiti in an alleyway, you'll feel more entitled to litter there. If five people haven't put their carts away, you're less likely to put yours away. Not putting away your shopping cart is another kind of social contagion. Who it hurts Why is this bad, you might be asking? What's the trouble here? Well, shopping carts don't have brakes. They can hit little kids, they can block handicapped spaces, they can damage cars, they can trundle out of the parking lot and into the road, causing car crashes. We've already become so alienated, so remote from our neighbors. Putting your cart away is one of the smallest gestures that indicate we're looking out for one another. Additionally, most grocery stores don't have a clerk on "cart duty" to reclaim wayward carts. Cashiers and stockists go on forays to gather shopping carts from where responsible shoppers have corralled them, and every extra moment those workers have to spend collecting the carts that have been strewn around the lot is another moment they can't spend helping customers make purchases. Not putting your cart away contributes to longer lines at the grocery store. Those stores that do have cart-wranglers certainly don't appreciate having to hunt down wayward carts, and worse, can sometimes have carts shoved at them by unruly shoppers. Is that the sort of society we want to have? Legitimate reasons to abandon your cart Now I recognize that there are several legitimate reasons why a person might not be able to return a shopping cart easily. Perhaps you've got lots of children and can't wrangle the kids and the groceries by themselves. Perhaps you have a physical disability and can't return the cart on your own. … But the fact that a minority of people cannot return carts means that the rest of us, as a SOCIETY, must support you and fill in the gaps. If you see an orphaned shopping cart, return it to the cart corral, and go on being a productive member of society. https://cdn.kastatic.org/ka-youtube-converted/_11QgROQ9mY.mp4/_11QgROQ9mY.mp4 273 Analyzing text structure https://www.khanacademy.org/ela/10th-grade-reading-vocab-indiana/xc7dfd10d0846d1af:ties-that-bind-10-indiana/xc7dfd10d0846d1af:analyzing-literary-text-structure-10-indiana/a/out-of-order-how-authors-sequence-events-in-literary-texts-to-create-different-effects-10 2026-05-21T11:40:40.471298507Z Analyzing the structure of literary texts | Guided practice Learn how authors use different text structures to create effects like mystery, tension, or surprise article https://www.khanacademy.org/ela/10th-grade-reading-and-vocabulary/xd89aabc5d5847a2b:craft-and-structure-10/xd89aabc5d5847a2b:analyzing-text-structure-10/e/text-structure-10 2026-05-21T11:40:40.471298507Z Informational text structure Practice text structure Heather M. Meston exercise https://www.khanacademy.org/ela/10th-grade-reading-and-vocabulary/xd89aabc5d5847a2b:craft-and-structure-10/xd89aabc5d5847a2b:analyzing-text-structure-10/e/literary-text-structure-10 2026-05-21T11:40:40.471298507Z Literary text structure Practice analyzing the structure of literary texts. Amanda Leff exercise