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 this excerpt from We’ve Got a Job.One of her grandmothers assured her, "You'll be fine."Which point of view does Audrey’s grandmother use in this excerpt?
A student gave this reason for opening a new public library.Our town needs a new public library because the one we have is outdated.
Read this excerpt from We’ve Got a Job: The 1963 Children’s March.Mr. Streeter was a barber and owned his own shop. Orphaned as a teenager, he had raised his five younger siblings by cutting hair, stopping only for Army duty and two years of study at Miles College. Mrs. Streeter had graduated from Tuskegee University, just like both of her parents and five of her seven siblings. She worked as the youth director at the black YWCA.The excerpt uses third-person narration, because
Which detail should be left out of an argument for free education of children worldwide?
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 excerpt from "Freedom Walkers” by Russell Freedman.Two youngsters from New Jersey—sixteen-year-old Edwina Johnson and her brother Marshall, who was fifteen—arrived in Montgomery to visit relatives during the summer of 1949. No one told them about the city’s segregation laws for buses, and one day they boarded a bus and sat down by a white man and boy.The white boy told Marshall to get up from the seat beside him. Marshall refused. Then the bus driver ordered the black teenagers to move, but they continued to sit where they were. Up North, they were accustomed to riding integrated buses and trains. They didn’t see now why they should give up their seats.
Read this excerpt from We’ve Got a Job: The 1963 Children’s March.Public facilities, such as schools, parks, and libraries assigned to blacks, were always inferior to those for whites. And, through laws, customs, and intimidation, whites blocked blacks' access to the better jobs, nicer houses, and, greater political influence that whites enjoyed. Black people throughout the South were quarantined and treated as if they might contaminate white people with an infectious disease.Which words best describe the tone of the 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?
When readers summarize a text, they should
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 We've Got a Job: The 1963 Children's March.All of the students at St. Mary's were black, as required by law. But unlike the staff at black public schools, the teachers – all of whom were nuns – were white. So, Arnetta grew up mingling comfortably with white people. In fact, had she wanted to, she could have "passed" for white herself.The excerpt uses third-person narration, because
Read this excerpt from We’ve Got a Job.Finally, in early 1963, Shuttlesworth called on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Reverend Andrew Young—civil rights leaders with the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) in Atlanta, Georgia—for help. King and Young met with local black leaders, including Mrs. Hendricks, to plan new strategies for ending segregation in Birmingham. Sometimes they gathered in Audrey's house, where she got to know these leaders on a nickname basis."Mike (that's what we called Martin), Andy, Fred—they'd stand in the kitchen while my mother made dinner," she said. "Mike would lift the top off a pot and say, ‘What's cookin', Lola?’”Based on the excerpt, which adjectives best describe the Hendrickses’ relationship with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.?
Which of these student responses to We’ve Got a Job: The 1963 Children’s March is an example of a text-to-text connection?
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