Based on We’ve Got a Job by Cynthia Levinson, which sentence is a minor detail that should be left out of a summary?
Read these stanzas from Paul Laurence Dunbar’s poems."The Poet and His Song""An Easy-Goin’ Feller"A song is but a little thing,And yet what joy it is to sing!In hours of toil it gives me zest,And when at eve I long for rest;When cows come home along the bars,And in the fold I hear the bell,As Night, the shepherd, herds his stars,I sing my song, and all is well.Ther' ain't no use in all this strife,An' hurryin', pell-mell, right thro' life.I don't believe in goin' too fastTo see what kind o' road you've passed.It ain't no mortal kind o' good,'N' I would n't hurry ef I could.I like to jest go joggin' 'long,To limber up my soul with song.How are the messages of these two poems similar?
Read this paragraph from The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain.Well, three or four months run along, and it was well into the winter now. I had been to school most all the time and could spell and read and write just a little, and could say the multiplication table up to six times seven is thirty-five, and I don't reckon I could ever get any further than that if I was to live forever. I don't take no stock in mathematics, anyway.What is the author’s purpose for including this paragraph?
Read the excerpt from “Pakistan’s Malala.”Malala wondered on her blog if she should adopt a pen name – Gul Makai.Meaning corn flower in Urdu, the native language of the region, Gul Makai is a name taken from a character in a Pashtun folk story. It's not well known, but Pashtun experts say the story is a kind of Romeo and Juliet tale. It's a sweet love story laced with tragedy.Based on this excerpt, writing a blog about her experiences allowed Malala to
Read the sentence.The president relied on his friends in other countries to help him win the war against their common enemy.Based on the context of the sentence, which word would be the best replacement for friends?
Read this excerpt from I Never Had It Made.Unknown to most people and certainly to me, after launching a major scouting program, Branch Rickey had picked me as that player. The Rickey talent hunt went beyond national borders. Cuba, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Venezuela, and other countries where dark-skinned people lived had been checked out. . . .In August 1945, at Comiskey Park in Chicago, I was approached by Clyde Sukeforth, the Dodger scout. Blacks have had to learn to protect themselves by being cynical but not cynical enough to slam the door on potential opportunities. We go through life walking a tightrope to prevent too much disillusionment. I was out on the field when Sukeforth called my name and beckoned. He told me the Brown Dodgers were looking for two ballplayers, that Branch Rickey had heard about me and sent him to watch me throw from the hole. He had come at an unfortunate time. I had hurt my shoulder a couple of days before that, and I wouldn't be doing any throwing for at least a week.Which detail best supports the idea that Jackie Robinson is skeptical about change?
Read the excerpt from "Lessons of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr."During my first fast in 1968, Dr. King reminded me that our struggle was his struggle too. He sent me a telegram which said, "Our separate struggles are really one. A struggle for freedom, for dignity, and for humanity." . . .Dr. King challenged us to work for a greater humanity. I only hope that we are worthy of his challenge.Based on the details in this passage, which theme best represents the ideas presented in Chavez’s speech?
Read this paragraph.When the speaker concluded her presentation, the students began to stir. I heard papers rustle, and I saw a hand go up across the room. I was glad to see that others were interested, too. The speaker was the owner of an Internet-based hobby store, and I wanted to hear the secrets of her success. The first question the speaker fielded was about how to secure a patent. After she offered a detailed response, I raised my hand.Which statement describes the narrative voice of this paragraph?
Read this excerpt from I Never Had It Made."They'll taunt and goad you," Mr. Rickey said. "They'll do anything to make you react. They'll try to provoke a race riot in the ballpark. This is the way to prove to the public that a Negro should not be allowed in the major league. This is the way to frighten the fans and make them afraid to attend the games."If hundreds of black people wanted to come to the ballpark to watch me play and Mr. Rickey tried to discourage them, would I understand that he was doing it because the emotional enthusiasm of my people could harm the experiment? That kind of enthusiasm would be as bad as the emotional opposition of prejudiced white fans.Suppose I was at shortstop. Another player comes down from first, stealing, flying in with spikes high, and cuts me on the leg. As I feel the blood running down my leg, the white player laughs in my face. . . .Could I turn the other cheek? I didn't know how I would do it. Yet I knew that I must. I had to do it for so many reasons. For black youth, for my mother, for Rae, for myself. I had already begun to feel I had to do it for Branch Rickey.Which detail best supports the idea that Robinson is concerned about the job he faces?
Which detail from "Lessons of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr." best supports the theme that positive change often comes when people work together?
Based on the information in "Pakistan’s Malala,” how did the Taliban attempt to carry out their formal decree about education?
Which sentence best belongs in a summary of We’ve Got a Job by Cynthia Levinson?
Read these stanzas from Paul Laurence Dunbar’s poems."The Seedling""The Old Apple Tree" Little folks, be like the seedling,Always do the best you can;Every child must share life's laborJust as well as every man.And the sun and showers will help youThrough the lonesome, struggling hours,Till you raise to light and beautyVirtue's fair, unfading flowers Life for us ain't all been summer,But I guess we've had our shareOf its flittin' joys an' pleasures,An' a sprinklin' of its care.Oft the skies have smiled upon us;Then again we've seen 'em frown,Though our load was ne'er so heavyThat we longed to lay it down.But when death does come a-callin',This my last request shall be,—That they'll bury me an' Hallie'Neath the old apple-tree.How are the messages of these two poems similar?
Read this excerpt from We’ve Got a Job: The 1963 Children’s March.[The Peace Ponies] soon figured out what they could do. In addition to attending the weekday mass meetings, they would participate in Saturday-morning training sessions where young activists were taught the two fundamental precepts of the civil rights movement. The first of these consisted of using "direct action" strategies to confront injustice, such as picketing stores targeted by the Selective Buying Campaign and holding sit-ins at segregated lunch counters. The other related precept was nonviolence – that is, carrying out these actions quietly and respectfully without resorting to violence, regardless of how white people, including the police, reacted.How does the author use third-person narration in this excerpt?
Read the following excerpt from We’ve Got a Job by Cynthia Levinson.“They asked us if we had any weapons,” James said. “They passed the basket around . . . Nobody put anything in . . . They said, ‘We’re going to pass the basket around again. Because, if you don’t go along with [nonviolence] totally, then don’t go at all.’ They passed the basket again.” This time, James dropped his fingernail clippers into the basket. After the second circuit, he said, “It was full with pocketknives; somebody had brass knuckles, any little thing that people thought would give them an edge . . . We didn’t know if we were going to be mixed with the jail population. So you’re wondering how you’re going to fit in with the guys who have been in there twenty years. There were a lot of unanswered questions.”Which statement best summarizes the content of this excerpt?
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