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 excerpt from We’ve Got a Job: The 1963 Children’s March.When Reverend and Mrs. Shuttlesworth and their daughters, Pat and Ricky, arrived at Phillips, one of the city's four all-white high schools, a crowd of white men attacked them. They beat and kicked the minister nearly senseless and scarred his face, stabbed Mrs. Shuttlesworth, and slammed the car door on Ricky's ankle.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."[M]y daddy decided that we weren't going to sit on the back of the bus that day. He got us and he sat us up in the front . . . ," Arnetta said, "The bus driver pulled over . . . and he told my father that either he [her father] was going to move back or he [the driver] was going to call the police . . . We were crying . . . All we knew was that the bus driver was going to call the police on our daddy."How is this part of the story mostly told?
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.After she graduated from Washington Elementary, where she was a drum majorette in the marching band, Arnetta moved on to Ullman High School. In tenth grade, she and seven friends started the Peace Ponies, a social and savings club. Members volunteered to help younger students and saved their money to give to needy families. In early April 1963, the Peace Ponies went to a mass meeting at Sixteenth Street Baptist Church. Martin Luther King Jr. gave the sermon that night.What does this characterization of Arnetta reveal?
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.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?
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.Not long after that effort failed, Mr. Streeter tried to fight segregation again. The family often went to the movies on Sunday after church. "[M]y daddy decided that we weren't going to sit on the back of the bus that day. He got us and he sat us up in the front . . . ," Arnetta said, "The bus driver pulled over . . . and he told my father that either he [her father] was going to move back or he [the driver] was going to call the police . . . We were crying . . . All we knew was that the bus driver was going to call the police on our daddy."An older black woman on the bus chastised Arnetta's father, saying, "You don't do anything like that when you have children with you." Once again, Mr. Streeter gave in to his children, to the driver, to the older woman, and to the city's segregation laws. He moved his family to the back of the bus.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.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?
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