Read this excerpt from the secondary source "Abraham Lincoln's Boyhood Home at Knob Creek."Likewise, he never forgot the time he fell in the swollen Knob Creek while playing on a foot log near his home. Had it not been for Austin Gollaher, a friend and school mate, Abraham would probably have drowned. Austin, with a keen sense of pioneer knowledge, grabbed a long tree limb from the bank and held it out like a strong arm to the struggling Lincoln. Abraham spoke of the incident after he became President.
Aidan is preparing a presentation on the dangers of distracted driving. Which tone is most appropriate for the audience of students in his high school?
Read this excerpt from “The Girl Who Silenced the World for Five Minutes.”You grown-ups say you love us. I challenge you, please make your actions reflect your words.
Which excerpt from “The Girl Who Silenced the World for Five Minutes” is a fact?
Read this sentence from Susan B. Anthony’s “On Women's Right to Vote.”The only question left to be settled now is: Are women persons?
Read this excerpt from "What I Hope to Leave Behind.”As I see it we can have no new deal until great groups of people, particularly the women, are willing to have a revolution in thought; are willing to look ahead, completely unconscious of losing the house on Fifth Avenue as long as somewhere they have a place to live which they themselves may gradually make into a home; are willing to give up constant competition for a little more material welfare and cooperate in everything which will make all those around them acquire a little more freedom and graciousness in life.
How does the structure of “I Hear America Singing” reflect the period in which it was written?
Read this excerpt from the secondary source “Abraham Lincoln’s Boyhood Home at Knob Creek.”Lincoln once wrote that while living on Knob Creek he and his sister, Sarah, were sent for short periods to an A, B, C school—the first kept by Zachariah Riney, and the second by Caleb Hazel. These were subscription schools and lasted only a few months. Free schools did not come to Kentucky until the 1830s.
Which sentence uses hyperbole?
Read the excerpt from “The Girl Who Silenced the World for Five Minutes.”In my country, we make so much waste, we buy and throw away, buy and throw away, and yet northern countries will not share with the needy. Even when we have more than enough, we are afraid to lose some of our wealth, afraid to share.
Read the excerpt from “The Girl Who Silenced the World for Five Minutes.”In my life, I have dreamt of seeing the great herds of wild animals, jungles, and rain forests full of birds and butterflies, but now I wonder if they will even exist for my children to see.Did you have to worry about these little things when you were my age?
Which image does Walt Whitman create by repeating language in “I Hear America Singing”?
Which excerpt from “The Girl Who Silenced the World for Five Minutes” expresses an opinion?
In “The Girl Who Silenced the World for Five Minutes,” what is the most likely reason Suzuki speaks about herself as “only a child”?
Read this excerpt from “Educate Yourself” by Marcus Garvey.As stated before, books are one's best companions. Try to get them and keep them. A method of doing so is every time you have ten cents or twenty five cents or a dollar to spend foolishly[,] either on your friends or yourself[,] think how much more useful that ten or twenty five cents or dollar would be invested in a book and so invest it. It may be just the thing you have been looking for to give you a thought by which you may win the heart of the world. The ten cent, twenty five cent or a dollar, therefore, may turn out to be an investment of worth to the extent of a million dollars. Never lend anybody the book that you want. You will never get it back. Never allow anybody to go to your bookshelf in your absence because the very book that you may want most may be taken from the shelf and you may never be able to get one of the kind again.
Which line from “Educate Yourself” by Marcus Garvey is a fact?
Read this excerpt from “Educate Yourself” by Marcus Garvey.Your language being English you should study the English language thoroughly. To know the English language thoroughly you ought to be acquainted with Latin, because most of the English words are of Latin origin. It is also advisable that you know the French language because most of the books that you read in English carry Latin and French phrases and words. There is no use reading a page or paragraph of a book or even a sentence without understanding it.
Read this excerpt from the poem "Lincoln Looked.”Lincoln looked forward and sawa divided house cannot stand.He looked ahead, beyond the brimof his stovepipe hat, and wherethere were many people, he saw one.Lincoln looked up at the cloudsturning in the sky and knew thatthe nation was doing the same thingin time.
Read this excerpt from the poem "Lincoln Looked.”Lincoln looked and lookedand looked for the momentthat the nation would openits eyes and rise to the occasion.And when that moment appeared,Lincoln looked no further but instead he got to work re-creating the country we live in today, and the countrywe look back on in wonder.
Read this excerpt from the poem "Lincoln Looked.”Lincoln looked forward and saw a divided house cannot stand.He looked ahead, beyond the brimof his stovepipe hat, and where there were many people, he saw one.Lincoln looked up at the clouds turning in the sky and knew thatthe nation was doing the same thingin time.It was time for a change. Lincolnlooked deep within himself and searchedfor the recipe for a new country madefrom so many wild and unique ingredients.
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