Read this excerpt from Daughters of the Revolution and Their Times: 1769–1776 by Charles Carleton Coffin.Paul Revere sees the muzzle of the pistol within a foot of his breast, but it does not frighten him."Ah, gentlemen, you have missed your aim.""What aim?""You won’t get what you came for. I left Boston an hour before your troops were ready to cross Charles River. Messengers left before me, and the alarm will soon be fifty miles away. Had I not known it, I would have risked a shot from you before allowing myself to be captured."Which statement best describes the characterization techniques used in this excerpt?
Read this paragraph.Kale, collards, spinach, and broccoli are vegetables referred to as "greens" by nutritionists. They contain high doses of fiber, vitamins, and minerals. Every diet should contain servings of these leafy greens because they contain substances that are proven lines of defense against heart disease and diabetes. The darker the green, the better the health benefits.What is the author’s purpose for writing this paragraph?
Read the excerpt from act 1 of The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street. TOMMYThat was the way they prepared things for the landing. They sent four people. A mother and a father and two kids who looked just like humans . . . but they weren't.There's another silence as Steve looks toward the crowd and then toward Tommy. He wears a tight grin.Based on the stage direction, the reader should visualize Steve as
Read this excerpt from "The People Could Fly."Then, many of the people were captured for Slavery. The ones that could fly shed their wings. They couldn't take their wings across the water on the slave ships. Too crowded, don't you know.The folks were full of misery, then. Got sick with the up and down of the sea. So they forgot about flyin when they could no longer breathe the sweet scent of Africa.Which setting is described by the underlined details?
Read the excerpt from "The People Could Fly.”Another and another fell from the heat. Toby was there. He cried out to the fallen and reached his arms out to them. "Kum kunka yali, kum . . . tambe!” Whispers and sighs. And they too rose on the air. They rode the hot breezes. The ones flyin were black and shinin sticks, wheelin above the head of the Overseer. They crossed the rows, the fields, the fences, the streams, and were away.
Which statement best describes how listening to an audio recording of a story is similar to reading the text?
Read these stanzas from Paul Laurence Dunbar’s poems."The Seedling""The Old Apple Tree" Little folks, be like the seedling,Always do the best you can;Every child must share life's laborJust as well as every man.And the sun and showers will help youThrough the lonesome, struggling hours,Till you raise to light and beautyVirtue's fair, unfading flowers Life for us ain't all been summer,But I guess we've had our shareOf its flittin' joys an' pleasures,An' a sprinklin' of its care.Oft the skies have smiled upon us;Then again we've seen 'em frown,Though our load was ne'er so heavyThat we longed to lay it down.But when death does come a-callin',This my last request shall be,—That they'll bury me an' Hallie'Neath the old apple-tree.How are the messages of these two poems similar?
Read this excerpt from a poem.He curls on the couchThe light is low.No voices beckon him awayDemands diminish.Contentment sidles up beside himAnd he exhales.Which line contains personification?
Which statement about "My Escape from Slavery” and "Crossing the River” is true?
Read these stanzas from Edna St. Vincent Millay’s poems."Ebb""Song of a Second April" I know what my heart is likeSince your love died:It is like a hollow ledgeHolding a little poolLeft there by the tide,A little tepid pool,Drying inward from the edgeThe larger streams run still and deep,Noisy and swift the small brooks runAmong the mullein stalks the sheepGo up the hillside in the sun,Pensively,—only you are gone,You that alone I cared to keep. How are the messages of these two poems similar?
Based on We’ve Got a Job by Cynthia Levinson, which sentence is a minor detail that should be left out of a summary?
Read this excerpt from We’ve Got a Job: The 1963 Children’s March.Mr. Streeter was a barber and owned his own shop. Orphaned as a teenager, he had raised his five younger siblings by cutting hair, stopping only for Army duty and two years of study at Miles College. Mrs. Streeter had graduated from Tuskegee University, just like both of her parents and five of her seven siblings. She worked as the youth director at the black YWCA.The excerpt uses third-person narration, because
When giving a multimedia presentation, students should mostly appeal to an audience’s
Read the sentences."Wow!” exclaimed Melida. "Your ballgown dress is so pretty.”
Read these stanzas from Paul Laurence Dunbar’s poems."The Poet and His Song""An Easy-Goin’ Feller"A song is but a little thing,And yet what joy it is to sing!In hours of toil it gives me zest,And when at eve I long for rest;When cows come home along the bars,And in the fold I hear the bell,As Night, the shepherd, herds his stars,I sing my song, and all is well.Ther' ain't no use in all this strife,An' hurryin', pell-mell, right thro' life.I don't believe in goin' too fastTo see what kind o' road you've passed.It ain't no mortal kind o' good,'N' I would n't hurry ef I could.I like to jest go joggin' 'long,To limber up my soul with song.How are the messages of these two poems similar?
Read the excerpt from “How I Learned English.”I fell back,Dazed, clutching my brow,Groaning, “Oh my shin, oh my shin,”And everybody peeled away from meAnd dropped from laughter, and there we were,All of us writhing on the ground for one reasonOr another.Which phrase from the excerpt allows readers to hear what is happening in the poem?
Read the excerpt from a folktale.The grasshopper played his fiddle all summer long, while the busy ant stored food for the winter. "You’re no fun!” sang the grasshopper. "Why don’t you play awhile?” But when the cold weather came, Grasshopper sang a different, hungry tune. He was grateful the ant had gathered so much food and very thankful to be invited for winter supper!Which theme can be found in this excerpt?
Read this excerpt from The American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793.Most doctors had predicted the fever would end when the cold weather returned. Almost all epidemics followed the same pattern, striking during warm weather, disappearing with the first hard frost. Daniel Defoe, in recording the end of the Black Death that visited London in 1665, wrote that "the winter weather came on apace [and] most of those that had fallen sick recovered, and the health of the city began to return." Which excerpt from Fever 1793 connects to the historical account detailed in the excerpt?
Read this excerpt from "The People Could Fly."Toby come over and spoke words to the fallen one. The words of ancient Africa once heard are never remembered completely. The young man forgot them as soon as he heard them. They went way inside him. He got up and rolled over on the air. He rode it awhile. And he flew away.Which historical fact is supported by this excerpt?
Read this excerpt from I Never Had It Made.Unknown to most people and certainly to me, after launching a major scouting program, Branch Rickey had picked me as that player. The Rickey talent hunt went beyond national borders. Cuba, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Venezuela, and other countries where dark-skinned people lived had been checked out. . . .In August 1945, at Comiskey Park in Chicago, I was approached by Clyde Sukeforth, the Dodger scout. Blacks have had to learn to protect themselves by being cynical but not cynical enough to slam the door on potential opportunities. We go through life walking a tightrope to prevent too much disillusionment. I was out on the field when Sukeforth called my name and beckoned. He told me the Brown Dodgers were looking for two ballplayers, that Branch Rickey had heard about me and sent him to watch me throw from the hole. He had come at an unfortunate time. I had hurt my shoulder a couple of days before that, and I wouldn't be doing any throwing for at least a week.Which detail best supports the idea that Jackie Robinson is skeptical about change?
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