Homework: Dear parents/guardians, please assist your child
with today’s homework.
Passage from Quilt of a Country:
Option 3: Read the
text below and answer the questions that follow. Write complete sentences. Use
examples from the reading to support your points.
The reality is often quite different… stories not of
tolerance, but of bigotry. Slavery …the burning of crosses …Children learn in
social-studies class and in the news of the lynching of blacks, the denial of
rights to women, the murders of gay men…
—… apartheid in America.... historians must have forgotten
the past,.
—… What is the point of a nation …always on the verge of
fisticuffs with another, blacks and whites, gays and straights……Today the
citizens of the United States have come together once more because …Terrorism…
—Yet …the overwhelming majority … agreed with this
statement: "The U.S. is a unique country that stands for something special
in the world.”
1.
What reality is the author talking about?
2.
What do children learn in the news and in class?
3.
What example does the author give of people who
don’t get along?
4.
What is bringing Americans together today?
5.
Option 2: Read the text below and answer the questions that
follow. Write complete sentences. Use examples from the reading to support your
points.
The reality is often quite different… stories not of
tolerance, but of bigotry. Slavery … Children learn in social-studies class and
in the news of the lynching of blacks, the denial of rights to women, the
murders of gay men…
.... historians must have forgotten the past,.
—… What is the point of a nation …always on the verge of fisticuffs
with another, blacks and whites, gays and straights……Today the citizens of the
United States have come together once more because …Terrorism…
—Yet …the… majority … agreed with this statement: "The
U.S. is a unique country that stands for something special in the world.”
1. What
reality is the author talking about?
2. What do
children learn in the news and in class?
3. Who is
always close to fisticuffs?
4. What is
bringing American together today?
Option 1: Read the text below and answer the questions that
follow. Write complete sentences. Use examples from the reading to support your
points.
The reality is often quite different… stories not of tolerance,
but of bigotry, slavery... historians must have forgotten the past,
1.
What have historians forgotten?
—… What is the point of a nation …always on the verge (close
to) of fisticuffs with another, blacks
and whites, gays and straights…
2.
Who is always close to fisticuffs?
…Today the citizens of the United States have come together
once more because …Terrorism…
3.
What is bringing American together today?
—Yet …the… majority … agreed with this statement: "The
U.S. is a unique country that stands for something special in the world.”
4.
What do the majority of Americans agree with?
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