A Confederate Girl's Diary

The writer of this account is

• a boy soldier

• an elderly woman

• a gunboat captain

• a young girl

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CCSS.RL.1.6

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

The is in a place that is under threat from the

• Union Army

• Confederate Army

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CCSS.RL.7.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

The writer describes cotton being burned. This is being done to stop

• the union army from benefiting from it

• slaves from taking it as they escape

• the confederate army from using it

• local people from taking it while looting

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.1

CCSS.RI.7.1

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

The writer starts this diary excerpt with, "There is no word in the English language that can express the state in which we are, and have been, these last three days." This most likely means she feels the situation she is writing about is

• already known to anyone reading her account

• too uninteresting to be described

• something she cannot do justice to with words

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CCSS.RI.6.10

CCSS.RI.7.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RI.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.5.10

When the writer says near the end of paragraph 2, "It shows what a nation in earnest is capable of doing," she is referring to

• the Union army's efforts to stop the rebels from dividing the nation.T

• Confederate citizens' individual sacrifices to support their side's cause.

The McRae mentioned near the start of paragraph 3, is

• an army squadron

• a fort

• an artillery piece

• a boat

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CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

The writer's final message in this diary entry is to

• her brother George

• a specific Confederate soldier

• Miss Cammack

• an imaginary Union Soldier

• Captain Huger

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CCSS.RI.6.10

CCSS.RI.7.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RI.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.5.10

The writer seems to want to let "Mr. Yankee" know that

• she is ready and willing to fight

• her side's cause is the right one

• she ready to give up hope

• her brother will protect her

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3