Based on This Land Was Made for You and Me, which topic did Woody Guthrie write most of his songs about?
Which statement best describes a difference between the poem "Ellis Island" and the essay "Thanksgiving: A Native American View"?
Which quotation from the poem "Ellis Island" supports the theme "A culture of conquering others is unhealthy”?
I see, in the "First Thanksgiving" story, a hidden Pilgrim heart. The story of that heart is the real tale than needs to be told. What did it hold? Bigotry, hatred, greed, self-righteousness? We have seen the evil that it caused in the 350 years since. Genocide, environmental devastation, poverty, world wars, racism.
Read the excerpt from This Land Was Made for You and Me.On March 3, 1940, Aunt Molly Jackson led off the evening at the Forrest Theater. The wife of a leading coal striker, she’d been organizing the miners and writing songs about the abysmal conditions of the Kentucky mines until death threats forced her to relocate to New York City.
Which statement best expresses one theme of "To Live"?
Which sentence contains a metaphor?
Read the passage from "Fierce Eyes."It was only my father, brother, and I who left. My mother stayed behind with my two teenage sisters for fear that the journey by boat to Thailand would be too dangerous for them. Toua and I were small (he was only three and I was nearly five), so the pirates would leave us alone. To be safe, my father cut off my hair and dressed me as a boy.
Read the excerpt from "Homesick Blues."According to Grandpa, he could always pick out the city boy from a group of farm boys because the city boy would be the one in the way while the farm boys did the work. He had the idea that those city boys thought they were too good to do real work, and he referred to them as, well, I can’t say what he called them because he taught me to never say such words. Still, Grandpa’s tone always seemed light-hearted when he talked about those days which made me wonder if he felt more disgust or more pity for those city boys.
Read the excerpt from "Homesick Blues."You can take the girl out of the country, but you can't take the country out of the girl." That’s what my grandpa said to me before I left the farm to start my brilliant career in the city. I hugged him and reassured him that I would try not to get too big for my britches—another of his favorite sayings—because I thought that was what he meant. I knew he had some level of disdain for city dwellers that went back to his days in the army. According to Grandpa, he could always pick out the city boy from a group of farm boys because the city boy would be the one in the way while the farm boys did the work.
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