Read the passages from “A Smart Cookie” by Sandra Cisneros and “An Hour with Abuelo” by Judith Ortiz Cofer.Today while cooking oatmeal she is Madame Butterfly until she sighs and points the wooden spoon at me. I could’ve been somebody, you know? Esperanza, you go to school. Study hard.For four years I boarded with a couple she knew. I paid my rent in labor, and I ate vegetables I grew myself. I wore my clothes until they were thin as parchment. But I graduated at the top of my class!
Read the excerpt from This Land Was Made for You and Me.Woody thought there was plenty to worry about. The Great Depression, which had begun in 1929, was grinding on. For years, desperate, hungry people had been tramping the roads and riding the rails, looking for work or handouts.
Read the passage from "The Lady, or the Tiger.”This semi-barbaric king had a daughter as blooming as his most florid fancies, and with a soul as fervent and imperious as his own. As is usual in such cases, she was the apple of his eye, and was loved by him above all humanity. Among his courtiers was a young man of that fineness of blood and lowness of station common to the conventional heroes of romance who love royal maidens. This royal maiden was well satisfied with her lover, for he was handsome and brave to a degree unsurpassed in all this kingdom, and she loved him with an ardor that had enough of barbarism in it to make it exceedingly warm and strong. This love affair moved on happily for many months, until one day the king happened to discover its existence.
The moral of this story is putting another’s happiness above oneself. Which evidence from "The Lady, or the Tiger” best supports the conclusion that the princess’s choice will reflect this moral?
It was said that my New York license plates would arouse interest and perhaps questions, since they were the only outward identifying marks I had. And so they did – perhaps twenty or thirty times in the whole trip. But such contacts followed an invariable pattern, somewhat as follows:Local man: “New York, huh?”Me: "Yep."Local man: “I was there in nineteen thirty-eight – or was it thirty-nine? Alice, was it thirty-eight or thirty-nine we went to New York?"Alice: "It was thirty-six. I remember because it was the year Alfred died.”Local man: "Anyway, I hated it. Wouldn't live there if you paid me.”
How does the author develop the following theme statement?Immigrants contribute to the quality of American life.
Read the excerpt from My Antonia by Willa Cather.Our young man of position was like the son of a royal house; the boy who swept out his office or drove his delivery wagon might frolic with the jolly country girls, but he himself must sit all evening in a plush parlour where conversation dragged so perceptibly that the father often came in and made blundering efforts to warm up the atmosphere. On his way home from his dull call, he would perhaps meet Tony and Lena, coming along the sidewalk whispering to each other, or the three Bohemian Marys in their long plush coats and caps, comporting themselves with a dignity that only made their eventful histories the more piquant. If he went to the hotel to see a travelling man on business, there was Tiny, arching her shoulders at him like a kitten. If he went into the laundry to get his collars, there were the four Danish girls, smiling up from their ironing-boards, with their white throats and their pink cheeks.
Which statement is the best reason that the author includes conversations with the dog in the book Travels with Charley?
Where is the story of My Antonia mostly set?
Which theme is best supported by the comparison in this passage from My Antonia?The daughters of Black Hawk merchants had a confident, unenquiring belief that they were “refined,” and that the country girls, who “worked out,” were not. The American farmers in our county were quite as hard-pressed as their neighbours from other countries. All alike had come to Nebraska with little capital and no knowledge of the soil they must subdue. All had borrowed money on their land. But no matter in what straits the Pennsylvanian or Virginian found himself, he would not let his daughters go out into service. Unless his girls could teach a country school, they sat at home in poverty.
Read the lines from “This Land Is Your Land” by Woody Guthrie.Nobody living can ever stop me, As I go walking that freedom highway
Which statement best explains the relationship between the land and the immigrants?
Which sentence from "The Lady, or the Tiger” best paraphrases the main question, "Is it the lady or the tiger?”
Which statement best describes a similarity between the poem "Ellis Island" and the essay "Thanksgiving: A Native American View"?
In “A Smart Cookie,” Esperanza’s mother quit high school, but in “An Hour with Abuelo,” Arturo’s abuelo finished high school.This is an example of
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