Read this excerpt from "The People Could Fly."They say that the children of the ones who could not fly told their children. And now, me, I have told it to you.How does this excerpt show that the story is a folktale?
Which excerpt from "The People Could Fly" reflects the historical fact that some enslaved people were able to escape?
Read this excerpt from "Old Johnny Appleseed.”At night he usually earned his crust of bread and lodgings by mending the teakettle or wash-boiler of some farmer's wife, or by soldering on the handle of her tin cup or the knob to her tea-pot, as he always carried in one of his coat pockets a small charcoal stove and a bit of solder. He always carried under his arm or over his shoulder a green baize bag, and when the mending was done, he would oftentimes draw out of this green bag an old violin and begin to play, and the farmer, as well as his wife and the children, would gather around him and listen to his strange music.
Which sentence from "The People Could Fly” best reflects the historical fact that enslaved people were forced to work under brutal conditions?
Which best describes Toby’s role on the plantation in "The People Could Fly?"
Read this excerpt from "The People Could Fly."The slaves who could not fly told about the people who could fly to their children. When they were free. When they sat close before the fire in the free land, they told it.Which element of a folktale is included in this excerpt?
Read this excerpt from "The People Could Fly."They say the people could fly. Say that long ago in Africa, some of the people knew magic. And they would walk up on the air like climbin up on a gate. And they flew like blackbirds over the fields. Black, shiny wings flappin against the blue up there.Which element of a folktale appears in this excerpt?
Read this excerpt from "Old Johnny Appleseed.”So whenever a farmer's wife gave him an apple to eat he carefully saved every seed that lay hidden in the heart of the apple, and next day as he trudged along he would stoop down every now and then and plant a few of the seeds and then carefully cover them with the rich black soil of the prairie. Then he would look up reverently to the sky and say, "I can but plant the seed, dear Lord, and Thy clouds may water them, but Thou alone can give the increase. Thou only can cause this tiny seed to grow into a tree whose fruit shall feed my fellow-men."
Read this excerpt from "The People Could Fly".The babe cried and cried, "Pity me, oh, pity me," say it sounded like. Sarah was so sad and starvin, she sat down in the row.Which historical fact is supported by this excerpt?
Which excerpt fromThe People Could Fly reflects the historical fact that enslaved people were kidnapped and sent overseas?
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