Read this excerpt about activist Dolores Huerta."I had a family that I had to support,” Huerta recalled. "And here I was going to go start organizing farmers for no money with all these children.” Huerta had seven children at home – two from her first marriage and five from her marriage to Ventura.It was a very difficult decision, because it meant she no longer had a job to support her family. Union officials and employees earned $5 a week. Huerta and her family had to depend on contributions of food and clothing.
Which best describes the setting of "The Roller Coaster”?
Which excerpt from "Why Alligator Hates Dog” creates the most suspense?
Read the excerpt from "Why Alligator Hates Dog.”Dog loved a good chase, so he couldn’t resist leaping off the porch in hot pursuit. What he didn’t know was that this rabbit was crafty: he led Dog right, then left, then straight to a deep hole. The rabbit jumped over the hole, knowing full well that Dog wouldn’t see the hole and would tumble right into it. That hole just happened to be an alligator den, and guess who had made it his home?
Read the excerpt from "Why Alligator Hates Dog.”Despite Alligator’s suspicions, he was sorely tempted by that bowl of scraps, which certainly sounded very tasty. But he was still doubtful. "I don’t know . . . What about your master? Won’t he try to get me if he sees me having dinner with you?”"Don’t you worry about him! I’ll take care of him; he always does everything I tell him to do. So, I guess I’ll be seeing you up at the cabin for dinner soon?”
Read the excerpt from "Why Alligator Hates Dog.”Alligator hissed in delight. "Well, look who’s here . . . the mangy, miserable mutt who’s been mocking me every night, shouting, ‘Come and get me, come and get me!’ I gotcha now, don’t I? Get ready, because I’m gonna snap you up and grind you into mincemeat!”
Read the excerpt from "Why Alligator Hates Dog.”Ever since then, M'su Cocodrie has borne a powerful grudge against Dog. He lies in the water as quiet and motionless as an old log, with only his eyes and nostrils peeping out, waiting patiently for his chance to take his revenge on that Dog and snap him up.
Read this excerpt from “Freedom's Plow” by Langston Hughes.Labor! Out of labor came the rowboatsAnd the sailboats and the steamboats,Came the wagons, and the coaches,Covered wagons, stage coaches,Out of labor came the factories,Came the foundries, came the railroads.
Read this excerpt from Langston Hughes’s poem "Freedom's Plow.”The plow plowed a new furrowAcross the field of history.Into that furrow the freedom seed was dropped.From that seed a tree grew, is growing, will ever grow.That tree is for everybody,For all America, for all the world.
Read the excerpt from Between the Silver and the Ash.XAVIERI don't understand. She wanted to be a farmer. I don't. I want to go to college. I want to be a doctor. She knew that.KENNETHMaybe you don't understand.XAVIERYou're right. I don't understand. She gave me a farm. My dad's been trying to buy the Harston farm for two years. For me to farm. I keep telling him I don't want to be a farmer, but he won't listen. And now the one person I thought understood me . . .KENNETHWell . . . there's more than one thing you can do with a farm. You don't have to farm it.XAVIERRight. What else can you do with a farm besides plow it and plant it and harvest it, over and over again? What can you do with a farm besides farm it?KENNETHSell it.
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