Commonlit:The Ants and the Grasshopper 1. PART A: What does the word “bustling” mean as it is used in paragraph 1?
A. to move quietly
B. to move with a purpose
C. to move slowly
D. to move tiredly

2. PART B: Which phrase from paragraph 1 best supports your answer to Part A?
A. “family of Ants”
B. “in the warm sunshine”
C. “drying out the grain”
D. “during the summer”

3. What does the information in paragraph 3 reveal about the grasshopper?
A. He doesn’t know how to store food for the winter.
B. He thinks the ants should have stored food for him while he played his music.
C. He is not a careful planner and was easily distracted by his music.
D. He is disappointed in himself because he did not store food for the winter.

4. How do the ants respond when the grasshopper asks them for help?
A. They ask him to play music for them while they work.
B. They decide the grasshopper’s problem is not their problem.
C. They decide to give him some food for the winter.
D. They continue on with their work and tell the grasshopper to join them.

5. Using complete sentences, explain the central moral, or lesson, of the story. Use evidence
from the text to support your answer.

Which of the following facts is true for the jallianwalla massacre, as discussed in gandhi's reponse to mr. pennington? a) all members gathered for the vaisakhi fair remained calm. b) general dyer made a verbal proclamation warning all members of the crowd to stay peaceful. c) children attending the vaisakhi fair were killed, d) anyone who tried to run away from the violence was able to escape.

Review the previous excerpt from barbra jordan’s speech. answer the following 3 questions in the space below.

In just over one hundred years, between 1701 and 1810, 252,500 enslaved africans were brought to barbados—an island that occupies only 166 square miles (making it, today, one of the smallest countries in the world). the english then set out to conquer more sugar islands, starting with jamaica, which they took from spain in 1655. in the same period that the 252,500 africans were brought to barbados, 662,400 africans were taken to jamaica. thus, sugar drove more than 900,000 people into slavery, across the atlantic, to barbados and jamaica—and these were just two of the sugar islands. the english were eagerly filling antigua, nevis, saint kitts, and montserrat with slaves and sugar mills. they took over much of dutch guiana for the same reason. seeing the fortunes being made in sugar, the french started their own scramble to turn the half of the island of hispaniola that they controlled (which is now haiti), as well as martinique, guadeloupe, and french guiana (along the south american coast near dutch guiana), into their own sugar colonies, which were filled with hundreds of thousands more african slaves. by 1753, british ships were taking average of 34,250 slaves from africa every year, and by 1768, that number had reached 53,100. –sugar changed the world, marc aronson and marina budhos how do the authors use historical evidence to support their claim? x(a) they use secondary sources to show how french and english monarchs were indifferent to enslaved people. x(b)they use secondary sources to show that enslaved people often fought for their freedom after arriving in the caribbean. the answer is: (c)they use facts from primary sources to show how countries increased the number of enslaved people to produce more sugar. x(d)they use primary source interviews to show that countries could make more money in trading sugar without using enslaved people.