I Never Had It Made

Jackie Robinson made baseball history by "breaking the color line."  What is your interpretation of the phrase "break the color line"? 

• He was the first African American to play baseball in an "all white" league.
• He was the first player to wear colored uniforms.
• He crossed a line on the baseball field that was colored.
• He no longer wanted to play baseball with other colored players.

Jackie Robinson said he was "proud to be in the hurricane eye of a significant breakthrough." What is the best interpretation of "hurricane eye".

• "Hurricane eye" means he played baseball in a storm.

• "Hurricane eye" means Jackie played baseball like a storm.

• "Hurricane eye" means that Jackie tried to stay calm in the middle of chaos around him.

• "Hurricane eye" means that white baseball players looked at him with an "evil eye."

Bigoted baseball fans screamed at Jackie.  What does the word bigoted mean?

• The baseball fans were loud.
• The baseball fans were excited for Jackie.
• The baseball fans hated Jackie because he was black.
• The baseball fans were mad because they lost the game.

Whom did Jackie say was the more important person to his success?

• His wife Rachel.
• His teammates on the Dodgers. 
• The little kids that went to his games.
• Other African Americans that went to see him play.

The very young were an inspiration to Jackie. What does the word inspiration mean?

• To like one thing more than something else.

• To get excited about a game.

• To let others show you how to do something.

• To inspire or give hope to someone.

Which of the following is not an example of text structure? 

• Cause and Effect.
• Compare and Contrast.
• A Venn Diagram
• Problem and Solution

What is Cause and Effect? 

• Presenting information about events or steps in a process, in the order in which they take or  have taken place.
• Presenting a problem or a series of problems, and offering solutions on how to solve them.
• Presenting information about things that are different but have something in common, such as two points of view on a subject.
• Explaining how or why something happens.

In a Cause and Effect text structure, the text is arranged to show the relationship between outcomes and their ...

• results.
• reasons.
• actions.
• causes.

According to Jackie, it was difficult for black people who started going to baseball games to support him because...

• Some were not baseball fans and those that did go to the games faced racial remarks and hate from the white people at the ballpark.

• Black people did not care about baseball.

• Black people did not like the seats they sat on.

• Black people thought Jackie was a bad baseball player.

What is media?

• The middle of something.
• The way people talk.
• News you see only on television.
• A method of communication.