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Question 1 • Language Arts 11

Read the excerpt from "Rebuilding the Cherokee Nation.” Our children go to public school systems in Oklahoma, and they see teachers that don’t look like them, don’t reflect who they are as a people. We’ve always been acculturated to believe that the BIA (Bureau of Indian Affairs) or the Indian Health Service or somebody else had better ideas for us than we ourselves had, and so trusting our own thinking . . . is the single most important task. . . Read Noah’s paraphrase of the excerpt. Student Work Wilma Mankiller says that Cherokee children go to public school systems in Oklahoma and see teachers who don’t look like them. Cherokee people have been acculturated to believe that the Bureau of Indian Affairs or the Indian Health Service have better ideas for them than they have for themselves. Mankiller says that the single most important task is to get the Cherokee to trust their own thinking. Which mistake did Noah make in his paraphrase?

Answer
A
He did not give proper credit to the source.
B
He matched the source material too closely.
C
He made the ideas in the text more complex.
D
He misrepresented the author’s ideas.

Explanation

Noah keeps much of the source’s wording and sentence structure, such as “children go to public school systems” and “trust their own thinking.” A paraphrase should restate the ideas substantially in the writer’s own words, even when it gives credit to the source. Noah’s version matches the source material too closely, so choice B is correct.

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