Making Inferences in an Article about Roberto Clemente – Flashcards

As an 11-year-old, my response to losing Clemente was to put together an album of photos clipped from newspaper stories. Since then I've read books and numerous stories about him and also watched documentaries of his life. —"Clemente's Impact Wanes in Puerto Rico 40 Years after His Death," Jorge Ortiz What information does the passage state explicitly?

"We headed out to the beach closest to the crash area and it was packed with people. It was devastating news for everybody," says former major league pitcher Jose Santiago, a close friend of Clemente. "People were going, 'Are you sure he boarded the plane? Maybe he didn't.' . . . Some would say, 'He's clinging to a rock in one of those little islands out there.' " —"Clemente's Impact Wanes in Puerto Rico 40 Years after His Death," Jorge Ortiz

A few days ago my father, now a retired physician, told me of the time in the late 1960s when the perennial All-Star came to his office. Seeking treatment for the back trouble that dogged him for much of his career, Clemente sat among the other patients and patiently waited his turn. It was an ordinary gesture by an extraordinary man, one that made his legend just a bit bigger in my eyes. —"Clemente's Impact Wanes in Puerto Rico 40 Years after His Death," Jorge Ortiz Based on the passage, which words best describe Roberto Clemente? Check all that apply.

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Orlando Merced, who played the first seven of his 13 major-league seasons for the Pirates, grew up across from Clemente's house, befriended his three sons and attended school with them. Merced sprung from the sports city and, as so many others here, considers Clemente his hero. "Roberto Clemente created the dream for many of us to become professional players and to reach the major leagues," Merced says. "He opened the eyes of the American teams to the talent that was here." —"Clemente's Impact Wanes in Puerto Rico 40 Years after His Death," Jorge Ortiz In what ways does the website help readers understand this passage better? Check all that apply.

Read this excerpt from the article "Clemente's Impact Wanes in Puerto Rico 40 Years after His Death." St. Louis Cardinals catcher Yadier Molina, probably the top player among a diminishing Puerto Rican contingent in the majors, has taken up the cause of abused and disadvantaged kids through his foundation. Molina says the chance to live up to Clemente's legacy was a motivating factor. What can best be inferred from this excerpt?

According to the article "Clemente's Impact Wanes in Puerto Rico 40 Years after His Death," which event takes place months before the author attends a party on New Year's Eve 1972?

Read this excerpt from Helen Keller's autobiography, The Story of My Life. Have you ever been at sea in a dense fog, when it seemed as if a tangible white darkness shut you in, and the great ship, tense and anxious, groped her way toward the shore with plummet and sounding-line, and you waited with beating heart for something to happen? I was like that ship before my education began, only I was without compass or sounding-line, and had no way of knowing how near the harbour was. "Light! give me light!" was the wordless cry of my soul, and the light of love shone on me in that very hour. . . . The morning after my teacher came she led me into her room and gave me a doll. The little blind children at the Perkins Institution had sent it and Laura Bridgman had dressed it; but I did not know this until afterward. When I had played with it a little while, Miss Sullivan slowly spelled into my hand the word "d-o-l-l." I was at once interested in this finger play and tried to imitate it. When I finally succeeded in making the letters correctly I was flushed with childish pleasure and pride. Running downstairs to my mother I held up my hand and made the letters for doll. I did not know that I was spelling a word or even that words existed; I was simply making my fingers go in monkey-like imitation. In the days that followed I learned to spell in this uncomprehending way a great many words, among them pin, hat, cup and a few verbs like sit, stand and walk. Based on this excerpt, which words best describe Helen Keller

According to the article "Clemente's Impact Wanes in Puerto Rico 40 Years after His Death," what happens in Puerto Rico immediately after Clemente's death is confirmed?

Read the excerpt from an article about Roberto Clemente by Jorge Ortiz. "Roberto Clemente created the dream for many of us to become professional players and to reach the major leagues,'' Merced says. "He opened the eyes of the American teams to the talent that was here.'' The talent has diminished, and Clemente's on-field legacy has receded in the Puerto Rican consciousness. His dignity and devotion to those less fortunate, however, continue to resonate.

Read this excerpt from the article "Clemente's Impact Wanes in Puerto Rico 40 Years after His Death." "We headed out to the beach closest to the crash area and it was packed with people. It was devastating news for everybody,'' says former major league pitcher Jose Santiago, a close friend of Clemente. "People were going, 'Are you sure he boarded the plane? Maybe he didn't.' Or claiming, 'Oh, he's got to be alive.' Some would say, 'He's clinging to a rock in one of those little islands out there.' " What can best be inferred from this excerpt?

According to the article "Clemente's Impact Wanes in Puerto Rico 40 Years after His Death," what happens after Clemente's sports city is established?

According to the article "Clemente's Impact Wanes in Puerto Rico 40 Years after His Death," what happens in Puerto Rico in 2012 to celebrate the anniversary of Clemente's 3000th hit?

Read this excerpt from Helen Keller's autobiography, The Story of My Life. As soon as I could spell a few words my teacher gave me slips of cardboard on which were printed words in raised letters. I quickly learned that each printed word stood for an object, an act, or a quality. I had a frame in which I could arrange the words in little sentences; but before I ever put sentences in the frame I used to make them in objects. I found the slips of paper which represented, for example, "doll," "is," "on," "bed" and placed each name on its object; then I put my doll on the bed with the words is, on, bed arranged beside the doll, thus making a sentence of the words, and at the same time carrying out the idea of the sentence with the things themselves. One day, Miss Sullivan tells me, I pinned the word girl on my pinafore and stood in the wardrobe. On the shelf I arranged the words, is, in, wardrobe. Nothing delighted me so much as this game. My teacher and I played it for hours at a time. Often everything in the room was arranged in object sentences. From the printed slip it was but a step to the printed book. I took my "Reader for Beginners" and hunted for the words I knew; when I found them my joy was like that of a game of hide-and-seek. Thus I began to read. Of the time when I began to read connected stories I shall speak later. What happens before the narrator forms sentences in her room?

Read this excerpt from Henry Ford's autobiography, My Life and Work. It was life on the farm that drove me into devising ways and means to better transportation. I was born on July 30, 1863, on a farm at Dearborn, Michigan, and my earliest recollection is that, considering the results, there was too much work on the place. That is the way I still feel about farming. There is a legend that my parents were very poor and that the early days were hard ones. Certainly they were not rich, but neither were they poor. As Michigan farmers went, we were prosperous. The house in which I was born is still standing, and it and the farm are part of my present holding. Which is the best source to use to confirm the information in this excerpt?

Read this excerpt from the article "Clemente's Impact Wanes in Puerto Rico 40 Years after His Death." Three months before, we had been riveted by Clemente's pursuit of his 3,000th hit, a feat he accomplished on the last weekend of the 1972 season with the Pittsburgh Pirates. He became the 11th player and first Latino to reach the coveted mark, and the residents of this U.S. territory swelled with pride. What can best be inferred from this excerpt?

Read this excerpt from Henry Ford's autobiography, My Life and Work. We were a prosperous company. We might easily have sat down and said: "Now we have arrived. Let us hold what we have got." Indeed, there was some disposition to take this stand. Some of the stockholders were seriously alarmed when our production reached one hundred cars a day. They wanted to do something to stop me from ruining the company, and when I replied to the effect that one hundred cars a day was only a trifle and that I hoped before long to make a thousand a day, they were inexpressibly shocked and I understand seriously contemplated court action. . . . The temptation to stop and hang on to what one has is quite natural. I can entirely sympathize with the desire to quit a life of activity and retire to a life of ease. I have never felt the urge myself but I can comprehend what it is - although I think that a man who retires ought entirely to get out of a business. There is a disposition to retire and retain control. It was, however, no part of my plan to do anything of that sort. I regarded our progress merely as an invitation to do more. Based on this excerpt, which words best describe Henry Ford?

Read this excerpt from Helen Keller's autobiography, The Story of My Life. My father, Arthur H. Keller, was a captain in the Confederate Army, and my mother, Kate Adams, was his second wife and many years younger. Her grandfather, Benjamin Adams, married Susanna E. Goodhue, and lived in Newbury, Massachusetts, for many years. Their son, Charles Adams, was born in Newburyport, Massachusetts, and moved to Helena, Arkansas. When the Civil War broke out, he fought on the side of the South and became a brigadier-general. He married Lucy Helen Everett, who belonged to the same family of Everetts as Edward Everett and Dr. Edward Everett Hale. After the war was over the family moved to Memphis, Tennessee. Which is the best source to use to confirm the information in this excerpt?

According to the article "Clemente's Impact Wanes in Puerto Rico 40 Years after His Death," what begins after Clemente's death?