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 quotation from the poem "Ellis Island" supports the theme "Immigration to America did not answer everyone’s dreams”?
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.”
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.
Based on This Land Was Made for You and Me, which song did Woody Guthrie most likely write while staying with Alan Lomax and his wife in Washington, DC?
Woody Guthrie was most likely inspired to write about a “ribbon of highway” when traveling on a
Which statement is an example of a similarity between “A Smart Cookie” and “An Hour with Abuelo”?
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!
of the tall woman, greenas dreams of forests and meadowswaiting for those who’d workeda thousand yearsyet never owned their own.Lands invadedwhen the earth became owned.Lands of those who followedthe changing Moon,knowledge of the seasonsin their veins.
Which statement best describes a similarity between the poem "Ellis Island" and the essay "Thanksgiving: A Native American View"?
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
Which statement is the best reason that the author includes conversations with the dog in the book Travels with Charley?
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.”
Charley sneezed and paced restlessly. "All right, mon cur, let's like your side of it. You want to go on. Suppose we do, and in the night a tree should crash down right where we are presently standing. It would be you who have the attention of the gods. And there is always that chance. I could tell you many stories about faithful animals who saved their masters, but I think you are just bored and I'm not going to flatter you.”
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