Open Up - Grade 6 - ELA - Module 3 - Homework 1

Excerpt from "Iron Routine":“. . . it was inbred in me to suffer in silence rather than to appeal to the ears of one whose open eyes could not see my pain . . . ”What is Zitkala-Sa saying in the excerpt? How do the connotations of the words and phrases she uses help her to convey her ideas?

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RL.6.4

L.6.4.c

RL.6.6

L.6.5.a

RL.6.2

RL.6.1

L.6.5.c

Excerpt from "Iron Routine":“I have many times trudged in the day's harness heavyfooted, like a dumb sick brute.”What is Zitkala-Sa saying in the excerpt? How do the connotations of the words and phrases she uses help her to convey her ideas?

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RL.6.4

L.6.4.c

RL.6.6

L.6.5.a

RL.6.2

RL.6.1

L.6.5.c

Excerpt from "Iron Routine":“I was again actively testing the chains which tightly bound my individuality like a mummy for burial.”What is Zitkala-Sa saying in the excerpt? How do the connotations of the words and phrases she uses help her to convey her ideas?

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RL.6.4

L.6.4.c

RL.6.6

L.6.5.a

RL.6.2

RL.6.1

L.6.5.c

Excerpt from "Iron Routine":“The melancholy of those black days has left so long a shadow that it darkens the path of years that have since gone by.”What is Zitkala-Sa saying in the excerpt? How do the connotations of the words and phrases she uses help her to convey her ideas?

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L.6.4.a

RL.6.4

L.6.4.c

RL.6.6

L.6.5.a

RL.6.2

RL.6.1

L.6.5.c

Excerpt from "Iron Routine":“But, however tempestuous this is within me, it comes out as the low voice of a curiously colored seashell, which is only for those ears that are bent with compassion to hear it.”What is Zitkala-Sa saying in the excerpt? How do the connotations of the words and phrases she uses help her to convey her ideas?

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L.6.4.a

RL.6.4

L.6.4.c

RL.6.6

L.6.5.a

RL.6.2

RL.6.1

L.6.5.c