"Everyday Use"

PART A: Which of the following best identifies the main theme of the text?

• Sometimes adopting a new heritage can result in the rejection of a person’s true heritage and family history

• A person must understand their family history before they can truly understand themselves.

• The modern world often demands that people change, whether they want to or not.

• Physical objects can often offer people a connection to their family history and family members who have passed

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.9

CCSS.RI.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

PART B: Which detail from the text best supports the answer to Part A?

• “Pressed us to her with the serious ways she read, to shove us away at just the moment, like dimwits, we seemed about to understand.” (Paragraph 10)

• “You didn’t even have to look close to see where hands pushing the dasher up and down to make butter had left a kind of sink in the wood.” (Paragraph 54

• “‘These are all pieces of dresses Grandma used to wear. She did all this stitching by hand. Imagine!’” (Paragraph 62

• “I didn’t want to bring up how I had offered Dee... a quilt when she went away to college. Then she had told me they were old-fashioned, out of style.” (Paragraph69)

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.1

CCSS.RI.11-12.1

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

She realizes that Maggie never gets what she deserves.

PART B: Which section from the text best supports the answer from above?

• “She had filled her bottom lip with checkerberry snuff, and it gave her face a kind of dopey, hangdog look.” (Paragraph 76)

• She looked at her sister with something like fear, but she wasn’t mad at her.This was Maggie’s portion. This was the way she knew God to work.” (Paragraph76)

• “When I looked at her like that, something hit me in the top of my head and ran down to the soles of my feet.” (Paragraph 77)

• I did something I never had done before: hugged Maggie to me, then dragged her on into the room” (Paragraph 77)

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

CCSS.RL.9-10.3