Read the excerpt from Common Sense. “ To talk of friendship with those in whom our reason forbids us to have faith . . . is madness and folly. ” Paine uses the words “madness and folly” to emphasize that the colonists
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. Which sentence best integrates a direct quotation from the excerpt?
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. Which sentence provides the best introduction to the quotation?
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. Student Work 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. Which paraphrasing mistake has Lily made?
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. Student Work 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. Which paraphrasing mistake has Sahil made?
What does "The Origin of the Robin" suggest about Ojibwa views of the parent-child relationship?
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?
Why is "The Origin of the Robin" considered a creation myth?
Read the first paragraph of the Iroquois Constitution . A large bunch of shell strings, in the making of which the Five Nations Confederate Lords have equally contributed, shall symbolize the completeness of the union and certify the pledge of the nations represented by the Confederate Lords of the Mohawk, the Oneida, the Onondaga, the Cayuga and the Senecca, that all are united and formed into one body or union called the Union of the Great Law, which they have established. What is the impact of the words “equally,” “completeness,” and “united”?
Which sentence in the paragraph is structured differently than the others?
Read the excerpt from The Crisis, Number I . “Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: ’tis dearness only that gives everything its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed, if so celestial an article as FREEDOM should not be highly rated.” Paine compares tyranny to hell in order to
Which is the best summary of the final paragraph of The Crisis, Number IV ?
Read the excerpt from The Crisis, Number IV . Howe is now weaker than before, and every shot will contribute to reduce him. You are more immediately interested than any other part of the continent: your all is at stake; it is not so with the general cause; you are devoted by the enemy to plunder and destruction: it is the encouragement which Howe, the chief of plunderers, has promised his army. Why is the repetition of “you” in this sentence an effective rhetorical technique?
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?
Read the first two sentences of Mina’s personal narrative, “My First Tryout.” Student Work When I was in ninth grade, I _______ out for the lacrosse team, even though I had never played before. My older sister had been a star goalie when she was my age, and I _______ to follow in her footsteps. Fill in the blanks in order.
Which of the following is a sentence fragment?
Which of the following is a sentence fragment?
How are the speakers’ senses of self-esteem similar in "A Thought on the Inestimable Blessing of Reason" and "Deliverance From Another Sore Fit"?
Which statement best describes the ways that the speakers in "A Thought on the Inestimable Blessing of Reason" and "Deliverance From Another Sore Fit" achieve contentment?
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