Read the excerpt from "Rebuilding the Cherokee Nation.”I can’t tell you how many everyday Americans that I’ve talked with who’ve visited a tribal community in Oklahoma or in other places, and they’ve looked around and they saw all the social indicators of decline: high infant mortality, high unemployment, many, many other very serious problems among our people, and they always ask, "What happened to these people? Why do native peoples have all these problems?”, and I think that in order to understand the contemporary issues we’re dealing with today and how we plan to dig our way out . . . you have to understand a little bit about history.Read Lily’s paraphrase of the excerpt.Wilma Mankiller cannot say how many people she has talked to who visit a tribe and see evidence that things are not going well and then ask questions about why Indigenous people have so many problems. She thinks that, in order to comprehend the modern problems tribal communities have, people have to do research into history.Courtesy of the Wilma Mankiller Trust
Read the excerpt from "Rebuilding the Cherokee Nation.”The other thing that I saw which is, I think, one of the single most important things that we continue to have as native people, and that’s a sense of interdependence. I’ve been very fortunate to be able to travel extensively in this country and abroad, and I can tell you that even though our people are very fragmented today, we still, in the more traditional communities still have a sense of interdependence. I can still motivate people in communities to do something because it helps their neighbor, or helps the person down the road, or helps the community much more than I can motivate people to do something just because it helps themselves.Courtesy of the Wilma Mankiller Trust
Read the excerpt from "Rebuilding the Cherokee Nation.”I think first it’s important, before I start talking about what we’re doing today in the 1990s and what we did throughout the eighties or even the seventies in rebuilding our tribe; I think it’s really, really important to put our current work and our current issues in a historical context.Read Sahil’s paraphrase of the excerpt.Wilma Mankiller says that it is important to understand the historical reasons for needing to rebuild the Cherokee tribe, and then she will start talking about what they’re doing today (in the 1990s), and what they did throughout the eighties or even the seventies.Courtesy of the Wilma Mankiller Trust
Read the excerpt from "Rebuilding the Cherokee Nation.”Our tribal council had no idea how to run a school for girls, and so they sent a group of emissaries to Mount Holyoke and asked the head of Mount Holyoke to send some teachers back to show us how to put together a school for girls. So we built an educational system and began this process of healing and rebuilding ourselves as a people.Courtesy of the Wilma Mankiller Trust
Read the sentences.[1] Thomas Paine’s Common Sense was published in 1776. [2] The Revolutionary war began that same year. Which is the best way to combine sentences 1 and 2?
Read the sentences.Sentence 1: We were inseparable.Sentence 2: So when Karim’s parents told us that they were moving across the country, we didn’t believe it, and we didn’t know how our friendship would survive.Sentence 3: Karim, Johan, and I had been best friends since the seventh grade.Sentence 4: Sometimes we’d spend entire weekends reading comic books and playing basketball.What is the most logical way to sequence these sentences to create a logical narrative?
Read the writing prompt.Your school has decided that students must wear uniforms every day. Do you agree with this decision? Why or why not? Write a letter to your principal that explains your point of view. Provide clear reasons for whether or not you support the school’s decision.Jonas decides that he will write a letter explaining that he disagrees with the principal’s decision because he believes that uniforms take away from students’ individuality. What is his best next step?
Read the excerpt from the The Crisis, Number I.“Not a man lives on the continent but fully believes that a separation must some time or other finally take place.”Which best describes Paine’s use of figurative language in this excerpt?
Read the excerpt from "Rebuilding the Cherokee Nation.”Another thing that I saw was great leadership in our communities, and leadership again, it’s kind of like the way I talked about looking at government. Our government may have not looked like the US government, but it’s a government and the leadership we saw in our communities may not have looked like leadership that you see in the external world, but the leadership existed. You could find the leadership just by seeing who people go to when there’s a time of crisis in the community.Courtesy of the Wilma Mankiller Trust
Read the introduction to Mila’s personal narrative, “True Lessons.”“Smile, Mila! Smile!” When my little sister was almost three years old, she would [WOL] this every day when I [WOL] in the door from school.Fill in the blanks in order.
Which rhyming couplet from Phillis Wheatley’s “On Imagination” contains an inverted sentence?
Read the excerpt from "Rebuilding the Cherokee Nation.”I’ve been very fortunate to be able to travel extensively in this country and abroad, and I can tell you that even though our people are very fragmented today, we still, in the more traditional communities still have a sense of interdependence. I can still motivate people in communities to do something because it helps their neighbor, or helps the person down the road, or helps the community much more than I can motivate people to do something just because it helps themselves.Courtesy of the Wilma Mankiller Trust
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Which best describes the structure of the Declaration of Independence?
Read the statement.Achieving independence requires sacrifice and determination.This statement is the The Crisis, Number IV’s
Read the quotation from The Crisis, Number IV.“It is not a field of a few acres of ground, but a cause, that we are defending, and whether we defeat the enemy in one battle, or by degrees, the consequences will be the same.”Which phrase best describes the “cause” that Paine refers to?
Which is the best summary of the final paragraph of The Crisis, Number IV?
Based on "The Origin of the Robin," which statement best illustrates the Ojibwa view on an individual's growth and change?
Why is "The Origin of the Robin" considered a creation myth?
Read this excerpt from "The Origin of the Robin."His father visited him regularly every morning, to encourage him to perseverance, describing at length the honor and renown that would attend him through life if he accomplished the full term prescribed.According to this excerpt, which best describes the father’s hope for his son?
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