HW Mr. Padilla 10.28.16

Homework: Dear parents/guardians, please assist your child with today’s homework.

Option 1: Read the passage and answer the questions that follow.

Today we introduced one of next months texts: Quilt of a Country. We will learn much about diversity in America, how we are enriched by diversity, how it makes us stronger, but also how it leads to conflict. 

America is an… idea. A …nation built of ever-changing… parts,

1.    What is America?

2.    What is it built of?

it is held together …by a notion (idea) that all men are created equal,

3.    What holds America together?

"Of all the nations in the world, the United States was built in nobody's image,"

4. What image was the United States built on?

Option 2: Read the passage and answer the questions. Write complete sentences and use examples from the text to support your answer.

America is an improbable idea. A mongrel nation built of ever-changing disparate parts, it is held together …by a notion that all men are created equal, though everyone knows that most men consider themselves better than someone.

"Of all the nations in the world, the United States was built in nobody's image," ... That's because it was built of bits and pieces that seem … like the crazy quilts…Out of many, one. That is the ideal.

1.     What is America?

2.     What is America made of? How was it built?

3.     What is the notion?

4.     Under whose image was America built?

5.     How was America built? Out of what?

Option 1:  Read the passage and answer the questions. Write complete sentences and use examples from the text to support your answer.

America is an improbable idea. A mongrel nation built of ever-changing disparate parts, it is held together …by a notion that all men are created equal, though everyone knows that most men consider themselves better than someone. "Of all the nations in the world, the United States was built in nobody's image," ... That's because it was built of bits and pieces that seem discordant, like the crazy quilts that have been one of its great folk-art forms, velvet and calico and checks and brocades. Out of many, one. That is the ideal.

1.     What makes America an improbable idea?

2.     What holds the disparate parts together?

3.     What do most men consider themselves?

4.     What makes the United States unique?

5.     What do quilts have to do with America?

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