Making Changes: Central Ideas in Immigrant Kids

Question 2 • FL-1001010-M/J Language Arts 1 A-CR

Which detail from Russell Freedman’s Immigrant Kids best supports this central idea? "No matter where they were from, immigrants worked hard to make a new life in the United States.”

Answer

“Five men and a woman, two young girls, not fifteen, and a boy who says unasked that he is fifteen, and lies in saying it, are at the machines sewing knickerbockers.”

“The endless, monotonous rows of tenement buildings that shut out the sky.”

“It was Mrs. Accurso who put her arm comfortingly about my mother's shoulder and led her away from the party and into the hall and showed her the water faucet.”

“Playgrounds were nonexistent, toilets were in the yard, and gymnasiums were an unheard-of luxury.”

Explanation

The detail about people sewing knickerbockers at machines shows immigrants working in a demanding job as they tried to build a life in the United States. The other choices describe crowded housing, a kind neighbor, or a lack of public facilities, but they do not show immigrants working hard as directly.

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