Vocabulary: Central or Main Idea - Freedom’s Daughters: The Unsu

A focused explanation or argument that helps develop the Central Idea (C.I) is a

• Analyze

• Central Idea

• Detail

• Supporting Detail

To examine the parts of something in detail is to_______ something.

• analyze

• support

• detail

• topic

The most important point that an author makes about a topic in a text is the

• topic

• Central Idea

• analyze

• detail

This is the subject of a text, usually expressed as a single word or phrase in the form of a noun.

• topic

• analyze

• idea

• text

A fact, a description, an example, or a reason, that further explains a key idea is a

• ending

• topic

• detail

• theme

Claudette Colvin was an A student at all-black Booker T. Washington High. She must have been paying attention in her_____ classes, for she insisted on applying the lessons she had learned after boarding a city bus on March 2, 1955.

• Civics

• Games

• Art

• Swimming

Answer explanation

Civics is defined as: the study or science of the privileges and obligations of citizens. Civic education is the study of the theoretical, political and practical aspects of citizenship, as well as its rights and duties.

Claudette didn’t move. She knew she wasn’t sitting in the restricted white section. She felt that she was far enough back to be entitled to her seat. A pregnant black woman was sitting next to her. When the driver insisted that the woman get up and stand in the aisle, a black man in the rear offered her his seat, then quickly left the bus to avoid trouble.

Which definition best defines entitled?

• believing oneself to be inherently deserving of privileges or special treatment

• Believing oneself to be not deserving of the privileges or special treatment

Answer explanation

The Context Clue: " wasn't sitting in the restricted" explains that Claudette had a right to her seat.

Under Montgomery’s segregation laws, Claudette was in fact entitled to her seat behind the whites-only section. If no seats were available for blacks to move back to as additional white passengers boarded the bus, then they were not required to give up their seats. That was the official policy. But in actual practice, whenever a white person needed a seat, the driver would order blacks to get up and move to the back of the bus, even when they had to stand in the aisle.

What does policy mean in this passage?

• disorganization, folly, chaos

• a course or principle of action adopted or proposed by a government, party, business, or individual

Answer explanation

The sentence "If no seats were available for blacks to move back to as additional white passengers boarded the bus, then they were not required to give up their seats." explains the there is a rule or policy for this.

The setting is in 1949. The story states that the city of Montgomery has segregation laws for buses. Then it says "Up North, they were accustomed to riding integrated buses and trains.

Are segregation and integration opposites?

• yes

• no

• they are the same

Answer explanation

Segregation means races separated. Integration means everyone does everything together.