Sowing Change Donna Freeman

Part A: Which of the following best represents the central idea of the text entitled "Sowing Change" by Donna Freeman

• The African Heritage Garden is controversial but helpful for many

• The African Heritage Garden is an important monument of community and change.

• Gardens can help bring people together.

• Working together helped construct the African Heritage Garden and stop crime.

Part B: Select THREE (3) details that best support the central idea that the African Heritage Garden is an important monument of community and change.

• "This is what we need: open space, a place to sit and talk, to think a while" (Freeman 1).

• "The corporation's attempts to garden on the site in 2001 and 2002 withered and died due to a lack of water" (Freeman 1).

• "It took more than two years, about 400 volunteers, and $200,000 in donated materials and expertise" (Freeman 1).

• "When you see how it was being used before and how it's being used now, that's an awesome feeling. It belongs to the community now" (Freeman 3).

• "But the progress has been huge, says Leonard, even though some of the volunteers had no gardening experience" (Freeman 3).

Match the following examples of figurative language from the text to their corresponding literary devices:

• Alliteration/Hyperbole

• A pair of doorway-like arbors invite passerby off the sidewalk and into a garden.

• Metaphor

• "The 20 by 32 foot bed of marigolds is not just a sea of orange blooms, but a Rorschach Blot"

• Idiom

• "The 130 by 100 foot garden seemed to spring up in a single day in late April"

• Personification

• "That's music to my ears"

Select three details that identify the setting of "Sowing Change"

• "Back up a few feet, look again and the shape of the African continent emerges on a North Lawndale street corner"

• "This is what we need," says North Lawndale resident Gerald Earles, sitting in the garden at 12th Place and Central Park Avenue"

• "The 130 by 100 foot garden seemed to spring up in a single day in late April"

• Chicago Tribune

The word ​ (a)   helps provide context to determine the meaning of the word "VERTICAL" as used in the following passage: "Shrubs, ornamental grasses and young hackberry, black locust, crab apple and magnolia trees also provide vertical uplift on this city lot.

• uplift
• provide
• vertical
• lot

Read the following passage. Then, determine the DENOTATIVE meaning of the term "arbors" using context.

"A pair of doorway-like arbors invite passersby off the sidewalk and into a garden where raised beds are a glory of lilies, daisies, hibiscus, nicotiana, shrub roses and other plants" (Freeman 1).

• invite

• garden tools

• floral arrangement

• shaded covering

True or False: The below paragraph contains evidence in the form of a QUOTATION

"This is what we need: open space, a place to sit and talk, to think a while," says North Lawndale resident Gerald Earles, sitting in the garden at 12th Place and Central Park Avenue.

• True

• False, dialogue

"The corporation's attempts to garden on the site in 2001 and 2002 withered and died due to a lack of water" (Freeman 1).

Which kind of context clue helps readers determine the meaning of the term "withered?"

• Inference context clue

• Antonym Context Clue

• Example Context Clue

• Synonym Context Clue

Identify the text structure of the following paragraph:

"The corporation's attempts to garden on the site in 2001 and 2002 withered and died due to a lack of water. But things finally came together this year after the Chicago Botanic Garden, Neighborspace, a non-profit land trust, and the Enterprise Companies, a residential real estate development firm, provided financial and design support" (Freeman 1).

• Compare/Contrast

• Descriptive

• Cause/Effect

• Problem/Solution

• Chronological

Select one detail that best supports the reasoning for why the African Heritage Garden was built:

• "About 200 people, including about 25 people from the community, attended a design session in March to determine what the garden would become" (Freeman 1).

• "All agreed that the site should have a bed shaped like the African continent and incorporate a number of plants that grow in Africa" (Freeman 2).

• "The park was created five years ago by residents fed up with crime near 19th street and Kostner avenue" (Freeman 2).

• "Once the site became a well-used and neatly maintained park, the criminal element left" (Freeman 2).