Newsies

What is the most important thing that you learn in Scene 7

• Hearst has a car

• The war increased Hearst's costs.

• The newsies' strike is working": it's affecting the newspaper owners' business

• The newsies used to pay one cent for two newspapers

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CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.10

CCSS.RL.6.7

CCSS.RL.5.2

Fill in the blank with the vocabulary word that best fits the sentence.

The______________ of the newspapers decreased when the newsies went on strike.

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CCSS.RI.11-12.10

CCSS.RI.6.10

CCSS.RI.7.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RI.9-10.10

Fill in the blank with the vocabulary word that best fits the sentence. If the grocery store doesn't start paying their cashiers a fair wage, the workers might go on_____________ in protest.

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CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.3.3C

CCSS.RF.3.3D

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

Who are the “newsies” in the play?

• kids who sell newspapers

• men who own newspaper companies

• drivers who deliver newspapers

• managers who hand out newspapers

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CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.10

CCSS.RL.6.7

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.7.5

Which words best describe the newsies at the beginning of the play?

• thoughtless and unfair

• important and powerful

• educated and successful

• poor and often homeless

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CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.10

CCSS.RL.6.7

CCSS.RL.7.3

Why do the newsies go on strike?

• to sell more papers

• to fight unfair costs

• to find more workers

• to charge more for papers

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CCSS.RL.7.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

Which line from the play best supports the correct answer to Question 5?

• “People don’t care when the big news is a cat up a tree.”

• “Rose and Boots enter a room packed with newsies.”

• “We’ll force the newspaper owners to lower our price back to 50 cents.”

• “They throw papers over the side of the bridge.”

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CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.2.6

At the end of the play, what does William Randolph Hearst tell the newsies he’ll do?

• send them all back to school

• lower the cost of newspapers

• buy back papers they don’t sell

• give their jobs to someone else

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CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.10

CCSS.RL.6.7

CCSS.RL.7.5

What does the Epilogue tell about?

• why newsies needed jobs

• what happened after the strike

• life before TV and cell phones

• how people used to sell papers

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CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.9

What is the main theme of the musical 'Newsies'?

• A) The power of friendship

• B) The struggle for workers' rights

• C) The importance of education

• D) The impact of technology