Sowing Change Donna Freeman

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English
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10th Grade
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Hard

Caroline Salvadore
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 20 pts
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.
2.
MULTIPLE SELECT QUESTION
1 min • 20 pts
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).
3.
MATCH QUESTION
1 min • 16 pts
Match the following examples of figurative language from the text to their corresponding literary devices:
Personification
"That's music to my ears"
Idiom
A pair of doorway-like arbors invite passerby off the sidewalk and into a garden.
Alliteration/Hyperbole
"The 20 by 32 foot bed of marigolds is not just a sea of orange blooms, but a Rorschach Blot"
Metaphor
"The 130 by 100 foot garden seemed to spring up in a single day in late April"
4.
MULTIPLE SELECT QUESTION
45 sec • 17 pts
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
5.
DROPDOWN QUESTION
1 min • 15 pts
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.
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 15 pts
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
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 14 pts
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
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