Read the excerpt from "The Revolt of Mother.”The old man slapped the saddle upon the mare's back."Look here, father, I want to know what them men are diggin' over in the field for, an' I'm goin' to know.”"I wish you'd go into the house, mother, an' 'tend to your own affairs,” the old man said then….”
Read the excerpt from "The People Could Fly.”Couldn’t stop to soothe and quiet it down. She let it cry. She didn’t want to. She had no heart to croon to it.
Read the excerpt from "The People Could Fly.”Sarah couldn’t stand up straight any longer. She was too weak. The sun burned her face. 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.
Read the excerpt from "The People Could Fly.”"Keep that thing quiet,” called the Overseer. He pointed his finger at the babe. The woman scrunched low. The Driver cracked his whip across the babe anyhow. The babe hollered like any hurt child, and the woman fell to the earth.
Read the excerpt from "The Revolt of Mother.”The old man slapped the saddle upon the mare's back."Look here, father, I want to know what them men are diggin' over in the field for, an' I'm goin' to know.”"I wish you'd go into the house, mother, an' 'tend to your own affairs,” the old man said then . . .”
Which excerpt from "The People Could Fly” appeals to readers’ sense of hearing to help them imagine the scene?
Listening to the audio recording of a story best helps readers
Read the excerpt from "The People Could Fly.”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.
Read the 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.
Read the excerpt from "The People Could Fly.”Black crows or black shadows. It didn’t matter, they went so high. Way above the plantation, way over the slavery land. Say they flew away to Free-dom.
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