Commonlit: WHAT SLAVES ARE TAUGHT TO THINK OF THE NORTH 1.RI.2PART A: Which of the following statements best summarizes a central idea within the text?
A. Slaves were purposefully manipulated by slaveholders to keep them enslaved.
B. Southern slaveholders actually respected people living in the North, despite the lies and cultural differences.
C. Education makes little positivie difference when living in extreme conditions (i. e. slavery).
D. Harriet Ann Jacobs praises Northerners for their full support of keeping escaped slaves free.

2.RI.1PART B: Which of the following quotes best supports the answer to Part A?
A. “Many of the slaves believe such stories, and think it is not worthwhile to exchange slavery for such a hard kind of freedom.” ( Paragraph 2)
B. “If those heathen in our Christian land had as much teaching as some Hindoos, they would think otherwise.” ( Paragraph 2)
C. “When southerners go to the north, they are proud to do them honor” (Paragraph 5)
D.“…I was often asked if I had seen any thing in the newspapers about white folks over in the big north, who were trying to get their freedom for them.” ( Paragraph 7)

3.RI.3What do the southern slave owners want slaves to think of the North?
A. They want them to think the North does not care about freeing them.
B. They want them to think the North will send them back to the slaveholders.
C. They want them to think they will have even worse lives as freed people in the North than as slaves in the South.
D. They want them to think they will not be welcome in the North.

4.Why does the author likely reference the Fugitive Slave Act in the text—how does this contribute to the central idea(s)?

5.At the end of the text, Jacobs writes about a woman who begged her to get her a newspaper. Why does Jacobs likely include this story in the text?
A. To demonstrate the conflicting and often incorrect information received by slaves
B. To condemn the illiteracy and lack of education enforced by slaveholdersC. To correct the woman who thought America had a queen
D. To bemoan the lack of available newspapers and literature in the South

Focus question: miss maudie says, “atticus finch is the same in his house as he is in public” (61). what evidence so far proves this true?

Which two statements about first-person narration are generally true? the narrator can be a witness or a reteller of events. the narrator always provides reliable information. o the narrator accurately knows past and future events. the narrator is a character in the story. the narrator knows everything about all characters.

Read the passage. excerpt from "why equal pay is worth fighting for" by senator elizabeth warren, april 17, 2014 i honestly can't believe that we're still arguing over equal pay in 2014. when i started teaching elementary school after college, the public school district didn't hide the fact that it had two pay scales: one for men and one for women. women have made incredible strides since then. but 40 years later, we're still debating equal pay for equal work. women today still earn only 77 cents for every dollar a man earns, and they're taking a hit in nearly every occupation. bloomberg analyzed census data and found that median earnings for women were lower than those for men in 264 of 265 major occupation categories. in 99.6 percent of occupations, men get paid more than women. that's not an accident; that's discrimination. the effects of this discrimination are real, and they are long lasting. today, more young women go to college than men, but unequal pay makes it harder for them to pay back student loans. pay inequality also means a tougher retirement for women. . for middle-class families today, it usually takes two incomes to get by, and many families depend as much on mom's salary as they do on dad's, if not more. women are the main breadwinners, or joint breadwinners, in two-thirds of the families across the country, and pay discrimination makes it that much harder for these families to stay afloat. women are ready to fight back against pay discrimination, but it's not easy. today, a woman can get fired for asking the guy across the hall how much money he makes. here in the senate, sen. barbara mikulski (d-md.) introduced the paycheck fairness act to give women the tools to combat wage discrimination. it would ensure that salary differences have something to do with the actual job that they are doing, and not just because they are women. senator warren states that the effects of pay discrimination are long-lasting. is this a valid argument supported by accurate evidence? no; warren weakens her point by claiming that the paycheck fairness act would "give women the tools to combat wage discrimination." yes; warren supports her point by noting, "for middle-class families today, it usually takes two incomes to get by." yes; warren supports her point by noting, "pay inequality also means a tougher retirement for women." no; warren weakens her point by noting, "today, a woman can get fired for asking the guy across the hall how much money he makes."