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Which excerpt from "Pakistan's Malala" shows that Malala received worldwide attention for her writing?
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"In 2010 she met with U.S. Special Envoy to Pakistan and Afghanistan Richard Holbrooke."
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Based on "Pakistan's Malala," which best states why blogging was an effective and useful way for Malala to share her experiences?
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It allowed Malala to share what was going on in Swat with an audience across the globe.
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Read the excerpt from "Pakistan's Malala." Why do you risk your life to raise your voice? a reporter asked her. In perfect English, she answered that her people need her. "I shall raise my voice," she insisted. "If I didn't do it, who would?" she said. Girls who are scared should fight their fear, she said. Which statement best explains Malala's viewpoint in this excerpt?
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She believes that she has a responsibility to stand up for the right to an education.
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Read the excerpt from "Pakistan's Malala." But what do you do when you're 11? You go to the playground and you play, so that's what they did. Some of the girls said they thought everything would work out. They'd be back, they said. Malala wanted to be hopeful, too. But before she left, she turned around and took one long look at the building. Malala was right about the edict and what it meant. After January 2009, she was forced to stay at home and read books, Ellick said. Eventually she was moved around the country where she attended ad-hoc schools. How did the setting of Malala's education change after the Taliban took over Swat Valley?
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She had to read at home or attend school in secret locations.
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Which detail from "Pakistan's Malala" best expresses how the setting influenced the residents of Swat Valley?
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"Parents kept their daughters home to protect them."
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Based on "Pakistan's Malala," which best describes Swat Valley before the Taliban took over?
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a spot that tourists visited to see the landscape
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Read the excerpt from "Pakistan's Malala." On the blog, she praised her father, who was operating one of the few schools that would go on to defy that order. "My father said that some days ago someone brought the printout of this diary saying how wonderful it was," Malala wrote. "My father said that he smiled, but could not even say that it was written by his daughter." Now that active and imaginative mind could be gone. Which sentence best reflects Ziauddin Yousufzai's view of his daughter's writing?
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"My father said that he smiled, but could not even say that it was written by his daughter."
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from "Pakistan's Malala." "I was in a bad mood," Malala blogged. Vacation was normally fun but no one was in the mood to celebrate. But what do you do when you're 11? You go to the playground and you play, so that's what they did. Some of the girls said they thought everything would work out. They'd be back, they said. Malala wanted to be hopeful, too. But before she left, she turned around and took one long look at the building. Malala was right about the edict and what it meant. Which statement best describes Malala's viewpoint
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She was disappointed, because her school was likely closed permanently.
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Read the excerpt from "Pakistan's Malala." "The Taliban have repeatedly targeted schools in Swat," she wrote in an extraordinary blog when she was empowered to share her voice with the world by the BBC. She was writing around the time the Taliban issued a formal edict in January 2009 banning all girls from schools. On the blog, she praised her father, who was operating one of the few schools that would go on to defy that order. "My father said that some days ago someone brought the printout of this diary saying how wonderful it was," Malala wrote. "My father said that he smiled, but could not even say that it was written by his daughter." Which excerpt best shows the relationship between the setting and Malala's father, Ziauddin Yousufzai?
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"[H]er father, who was operating one of the few schools that would go on to defy that order."
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Which statement best describes the author Ashley Fantz's view of Malala in "Pakistan's Malala"?
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She admires Malala's courage and strength.
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Which excerpt from We've Got a Job best expresses why Audrey and others participated in the march?
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"Their goal was to end segregation in the most racially divided and violent city in America."
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Read this excerpt from We've Got a Job. "I want to go to jail," Audrey had told her mother. Which best describes the point(s) of view used in this excerpt?
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first person and third person
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Read this excerpt from We've Got a Job. At that moment, nine-year-old Audrey made a decision. She would no longer just attend meetings. Somehow, she would act on her own. Which of Audrey's character traits is best highlighted in this excerpt?
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her independence
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Why does Audrey's mother ask civil rights supporters in the North to send clothes and toys to Birmingham in We've Got a Job?
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to give them to families who cannot afford Christmas gifts
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Which excerpt from We've Got a Job best expresses Audrey's bravery?
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"Audrey was the youngest of three to four thousand black children who marched, protested, sang, and prayed their way to jail."
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According to We've Got a Job, why do students at Miles organize a Selective Buying Campaign?
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so stores that discriminate will make less money
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Read this excerpt from We've Got a Job. No one would have blamed Mr. and Mrs. Hendricks if they had decided to keep quiet about civil rights following the bombing of their friend's home. But Audrey's parents weren't intimidated. The very next day, her father and about fifteen other blacks sat down in the front section of a bus, where only whites were permitted. When the driver demanded they move to the back, Audrey's father politely refused, saying "We [are] comfortable where we are sitting." As a result, Mr. Hendricks was arrested and spent six nights in jail. When he was released, he volunteered to guard the Shuttlesworths' home. Why do Mr. Hendricks and others sit in a section of the bus where they are not permitted?
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to show they will keep fighting even though their friend's home was destroyed
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According to We've Got a Job, why did the city of Birmingham close all its parks, swimming pools, playgrounds, and golf courses in 1962?
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to avoid having to integrate public areas as ordered by the court
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Read this excerpt from We've Got a Job: The 1963 Children's March. Theophilus Eugene Connor was nicknamed "Bull" because he bellowed like one. As commissioner of public safety, Bull Connor oversaw the police and fire departments, public schools, libraries, and the health department in Birmingham. During his second term as commissioner, Connor wrote a letter to President Franklin D. Roosevelt that revealed his views on race: he warned the liberal-leaning president that in cities where "the doctrine of white supremacy" fails, "Negroes become impudent, unruly, arrogant, law breaking, violent and insolent." If a student compares this excerpt to the power of dictators, which type of connection is made?
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text to world
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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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Wash's school reminds me of the detention center in the book Holes.
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Read this excerpt from We've Got a Job: The 1963 Children's March. Though Connor was commissioner of public safety, blacks knew that it wasn't their health and safety he intended to protect. And he certainly didn't put out their fires. Between the late 1940s and early 1960s, more than fifty black homes and churches in Birmingham were bombed. One neighborhood was hit so often, it was called "Dynamite Hill." No one was ever prosecuted, even when the police could identify the bombers. What is the tone of the excerpt?
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scornful
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Read this excerpt from We've Got a Job: The 1963 Children's March. With the extra income, the Bookers moved to a housing project. "Loveman's Village was brick," Wash said, "and it was warm and well lit. There was a bathtub. It had hot and cold running water. There was a gas heater with a thermostat that came on whenever it got cold." How does this excerpt help readers make a personal connection to the story?
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by connecting readers to Wash's satisfaction with his home
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Read this excerpt from We've Got a Job: The 1963 Children's March. To take a bath, they first had to lug water to their room from the only sink in the house, near the bathroom. "We had a Number Ten tub," Wash explained, describing the high-sided tin contraption. "We boiled water, poured [it] into the tub, and then put cold water in the tub. And that's what we took a bath in, because there was no such thing as hot water in the house." How does this excerpt help readers make a personal connection to the story?
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by offering details about Wash's daily routines
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Read this excerpt from We've Got a Job: The 1963 Children's March. Wash remembers the police as "the ultimate terror . . . You saw the police, you ran. It was automatic." Why were the police so frightening? "It was a rare weekend passed," Wash said, "that one or two folk . . . didn't get killed by the police . . . This is what they'd do to you: They'd call you and make you stick your head in the window [of the police car] . . . and then they would roll the window up . . . And then they'd hit you on your head . . . They'd beat people to death." As a result, he said, parents could scare unruly children into minding them by threatening, "The police gonna get you." What is the tone of the excerpt?
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shocking
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Read this excerpt from We've Got a Job: The 1963 Children's March. Then, in 1958, when he was nine, his mother got a job as a dental assistant - and a raise. At about the same time, Wash got a job, too. Six days a week for eight years, he woke up by four o'clock in the morning to deliver milk. By the time he got to school each day, he'd already put in almost half a day's work. How does this excerpt help readers make a personal connection to the story?
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by connecting readers to Wash's daily work routine
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Read this excerpt from We've Got a Job: The 1963 Children's March. Like James, she was so light-skinned that her friends sometimes called her names. "When they would get angry, they would call me 'half-white' . . . ," she said. "It would really, really hurt my feelings." Although she had friends who passed, "I was black, and it was no doubt about it in my mind," she said. Which part of the narrative structure does the author develop in this excerpt?
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Conflict is developed as Arnetta faces racial insults.
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Read this excerpt from We've Got a Job: The 1963 Children's March. To help the teens weigh the risks and ponder if they could remain nonviolent, workshop leaders got them to talk about how they felt. Bernard Lafayette, one of the trainers, said, "We didn't want anyone to . . . participate in the demonstrations and then regret that they did." He found it was "easier for the girls to talk about feelings than boys . . ." Which part of the narrative structure does the author develop in this excerpt?
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Characterization reveals the workshop leaders' compassion.
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Read this paragraph. When the curtain closed, I breathed a sigh of relief. "We did it!" I exclaimed to Riya, knowing she would be equally thrilled. I wiped the sweat from my brow and prepared to take a bow when the curtain reopened. The thundering applause of the audience suggested that it approved. Which statement describes the narrative voice of this paragraph?
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The paragraph has a first-person narrator offering thoughts and feelings.
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Read this excerpt from We've Got a Job: The 1963 Children's March. After she graduated from Washington Elementary, where she was a drum majorette in the marching band, Arnetta moved on to Ullman High School. In tenth grade, she and seven friends started the Peace Ponies, a social and savings club. Members volunteered to help younger students and saved their money to give to needy families. In early April 1963, the Peace Ponies went to a mass meeting at Sixteenth Street Baptist Church. Martin Luther King Jr. gave the sermon that night. What does this characterization of Arnetta reveal?
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her community involvement
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Read this excerpt from We've Got a Job: The 1963 Children's March. Just before fourth grade, Arnetta asked to switch to public school so she could be with her neighborhood friends. Her parents preferred that she and her sisters stay at St. Mary's but, Arnetta said, "We had a fit." Which part of the narrative structure does the author develop in this excerpt?
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Plot is developed as Arnetta insists on transferring schools.
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Read this excerpt from We've Got a Job: The 1963 Children's March. Washington Elementary, which James and Wash also attended, was a shock to her. All of the teachers were black. The classes were more crowded, and the classrooms were less well equipped than those at St. Mary's. In addition, she had a long walk to school. Every day, she passed by Elyton Elementary, the white school that was closer to her home. "My father would always say, 'One day, black children will be able to go to Elyton.'" Arnetta wasn't sure she believed that would ever happen. How does the author use third-person narration in this excerpt?
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to present a contrast between black and white schools
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Read this excerpt from We've Got a Job: The 1963 Children's March. When Arnetta Streeter was in elementary school, she wanted to become a nun. She loved the nuns who taught at St. Mary's, the Catholic school she attended through third grade. Arnetta said they were "very, very strict," and she liked the discipline and high academic expectations. She and her two younger sisters and their parents were devout churchgoers, attending Mass at Our Lady of Fatima every Sunday. On Saturday, they often went to a different church closer to their home for confession. This church was one of the largest in Birmingham, with mostly white parishioners who always welcomed them. How is this part of the story told?
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from a narrator's point of view
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Which word is an antonym for the word "polite"?
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rude
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Which sentence uses a pair of antonyms?
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The nervous speaker began with a whisper but finished with a roar.
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Take a look at this thesaurus entry. resist (v.) Definition: to attempt to counter the actions or effects of Synonyms: defy, fight, oppose Antonyms: give in, submit, surrender Based on the thesaurus entry, which word is also an antonym for the word "resist"?
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accept
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Take a look at this thesaurus entry. taste (n.) Definition: one of the sensations produced by the tongue in response to certain chemicals Synonyms: snack, flavor, bit Antonyms: smorgasbord, meal taste (v.) Definition: to sample or flavor something Synonyms: chew, sample, nibble Antonyms: go without, cease Read this sentence. The soup smells so good, I can't wait to taste it. According to the thesaurus entry, which word is a synonym for the word "taste" as it used in the sentence?
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sample
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Take a look at this thesaurus entry. dream (n.) Definition: 1. imaginary events produced while sleeping 2. a hope or wish Synonyms: figment, hallucination, illusion, vision Antonyms: fact, reality dream (v.) Definition: to form or see imaginary events Synonyms: fancy, fantasize, imagine, picture Read this sentence. Because I have won the state championship three times, being a strong and successful athlete isn't my dream, it's my _________. Based on the thesaurus entry, which antonym for the word "dream" will best complete this sentence?
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reality
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Read this sentence. Although the idea was foreign to me, I still thought I would give it a try. Which word is the best synonym for the word "foreign" as it used in this sentence?
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unknown
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Take a look at this dictionary entry. echo e • cho [E-ko] n. [from Greek echo] a reflected sound that is heard repeatedly eclipse e • clipse [EH-klips] n. [from Greek ekleipsis] the covering of one body in space by another This dictionary entry is missing
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a set of guide words
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Which word is a synonym for the word "scream"?
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shout
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Credible sources for an argumentative essay about education include
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original documents stating a law about education.
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According to the contents of this graphic organizer, which of these statements best belongs in a closing paragraph about school uniforms?
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After reviewing all of the evidence, it becomes clearer than ever that school uniforms benefit the students in numerous ways.
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Take a look at this writing prompt. Write a research-based argumentative essay for or against school uniforms. Which statement describes a source that would be appropriate for gathering information about this topic?
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an online news article that gives facts and data proving that uniforms help students to remain focused while in school
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Read the reason a student wrote for saving a city park. Hawk Hill is my favorite park, and it is free to visit. Which is the best detail to add to support saving the park?
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Hawk Hill should remain open because it is the only park we have with a lake where people can swim and fish.
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Which feature of an online publication makes it a credible source?
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It provides accurate and appropriate data.
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Relevant facts relate to the topic and
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give evidence to support reasons in an argument.
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Take a look at the following graphic organizer of main points in favor of volunteer service. Which sentence best fills in the blank box of the graphic organizer by tying together the previous two ideas?
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Overall, community service strengthens the city.
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Strong evidence that supports the writer's claim includes
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examples
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Take a look at the following graphic organizer. Which phrase best fills in the blank in this graphic organizer to describe the topic of the claim?
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Environmentally safe transportation
