Read this excerpt from We’ve Got a Job: The 1963 Children’s March.Lucinda Robey, a friend of Arnetta's mother, recruited interested youngsters to participate in the Movement. She picked Arnetta up and drove her to the training, which was held in the basement of Sixteenth Street Baptist Church. Arnetta discovered that the sessions were as tough as boot camp, and the teachers were as tough as the nuns at St. Mary's.Which part of the narrative structure does the author develop in this excerpt?
Read this paragraph.Youths who were offered a chance at social activism turned out in droves at Milbrook High School yesterday afternoon. A poster in the hall had advertised simply, "Get involved! You can change lives!” This raised students’ curiosity, and many attended a meeting that introduced a neighborhood tutoring program. More than fifty students signed up to tutor children at nearby elementary schools.Which statement describes the narrative voice of this paragraph?
Read this excerpt from We’ve Got a Job: The 1963 Children’s March.As King finished speaking, a young white man named Roy James jumped onto the stage and attacked him with brass knuckles, slugging him in the back and jaw. Rather than return the blows or even cover his face, King dropped his hands by his side and looked at his assailant. Other ministers rushed to restrain James, but King stopped them."Don't touch him," he cried. "We have to pray for him." King put his arm around the man who had been attacking him. They talked quietly. The man, a member of the American Nazi Party, started crying and admitted that he had come there to prove that King was not nonviolent. The minister did not even press charges.What does this characterization of Martin Luther King reveal?
Read this paragraph.When the curtain closed, I breathed a sigh of relief. "We did it!” I exclaimed to Riya, knowing she would be equally thrilled. I wiped the sweat from my brow and prepared to take a bow when the curtain reopened. The thundering applause of the audience suggested that it approved.Which statement describes the narrative voice of this paragraph?
Read this paragraph.Carla began to connect more with her peers than her family – I’m sure you have seen this in your community. Youths often prefer the company of their friends, seeking them out at the pool, the park, the mall. They no longer seek shelter behind mothers and fathers, you understand. Instead, they venture boldly into new social circles.Which statement describes the narrative voice of this paragraph?
Read this excerpt from We’ve Got a Job: The 1963 Children’s March.Her father not only believed that integration was inevitable, he even tried to enlist Arnetta to make it happen. In September 1957, three years after the U.S. Supreme Court ordered racial integration of public schools, ACMHR tried to recruit young people to cross the education color barrier. Several families, including the Shuttlesworths, decided to participate. Arnetta was eleven years old then, and her father wanted her and her sister Joan to integrate a white school, too. The girls panicked. "We were little chickens," Arnetta said. "We cried and thought it was so unfair. We wanted no part of it."How does the author use third-person narration in this excerpt?
Read this excerpt from We’ve Got a Job: The 1963 Children’s March.Like James, she was so light-skinned that her friends sometimes called her names. "When they would get angry, they would call me ‘half-white' . . . ," she said. "It would really, really hurt my feelings." Although she had friends who passed, "I was black, and it was no doubt about it in my mind," she said. Which part of the narrative structure does the author develop in this excerpt?
Read this excerpt from We’ve Got a Job: The 1963 Children’s March.Washington Elementary, which James and Wash also attended, was a shock to her. All of the teachers were black. The classes were more crowded, and the classrooms were less well equipped than those at St. Mary's.In addition, she had a long walk to school. Every day, she passed by Elyton Elementary, the white school that was closer to her home. "My father would always say, ‘One day, black children will be able to go to Elyton.’" Arnetta wasn’t sure she believed that would ever happen.How does the author use third-person narration in this excerpt?
Read this paragraph.Curtis sat in the third row with his mother and father. They were quiet and reverential as the concert began. Occasionally, Curtis bowed his head as if in thought. When they stood at intermission, he took his mother’s arm and held her hand.Which statement describes the narrative voice of this paragraph?
Read this excerpt from We've Got a Job: The 1963 Children's March.When Arnetta Streeter was in elementary school, she wanted to become a nun. She loved the nuns who taught at St. Mary's, the Catholic school she attended through third grade. Arnetta said they were "very, very strict," and she liked the discipline and high academic expectations.She and her two younger sisters and their parents were devout churchgoers, attending Mass at Our Lady of Fatima every Sunday. On Saturday, they often went to a different church closer to their home for confession. This church was one of the largest in Birmingham, with mostly white parishioners who always welcomed them.How is this part of the story told?
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