Which statement correctly compares and contrasts My Story and "On the Bus with Rosa Parks"?
Read the excerpt from My Story.I wasn’t frightened at the jail. I was more resigned than anything else. I don’t recall being real angry, not enough to have an argument. I was just prepared to accept whatever I had to face. I asked again if I could make a telephone call. I was ignored.
Read the excerpt from My Story. I did not go down with the others to present that petition to the bus company and the city officials, because I didn’t feel anything could be accomplished. I had decided that I would not go anywhere with a piece of paper in my hand asking white folks for any favors. I had made that decision myself, as an individual.
Read the excerpt from My Story.Back in the spring of 1955 a teenage girl named Claudette Colvin and an elderly woman refused to give up their seats in the middle section of a bus to white people. When the driver went to get the police, the elderly woman got off the bus, but Claudette refused to leave, saying she had already paid her dime and had no reason to move. When the police came, they dragged her from the bus and arrested her.
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How is the tone in My Story different from the tone in "On the Bus with Rosa Parks"?
Which is found in "On the Bus with Rosa Parks" but not in My Story?
Read the excerpt from the poem "On the Bus with Rosa Parks."RosaHow she sat there,the time right inside a placeso wrong it was ready.That trim name withits dream of a benchto rest on. Her sensible coat.
In My Story, when Rosa Parks writes about her famous bus ride and arrest on December 1, 1955, she mostly uses a chronological text structure because she wants
Which correctly describes the narration in My Story and "On the Bus with Rosa Parks"?
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