4th Grade: Unit 3 Summative - Lisa Palmisano | Library

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Part A: Shirley is hopeful about the bus boycott and willing to do her part to create change. Choose the quote that best supports this statement.

“My friends and I wore out our shoes walking to school.” (paragraph 13)

“... the black people have to give up their seats to the whites.” (paragraph 4)

“... if we protest peacefully with “courage and dignity”, we can make great changes for black people.Until then, I’ll keep walking.” (paragraph 6)

It wasn’t easy to walk so far in all kinds of weather.” (paragraph 13)

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Part B: Use evidence from the text to explain how the quote you chose in Part A supports the claim that Shirley is hopeful about the bus boycott and willing to do her part to create change.

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Part A: Which trait does not describe the main character, Shirley.

Courageous

Brave

Hopeless

Fearless

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Part B: Describe a character trait that Shirley does have. Use evidence from the text to explain why that trait describes the main character.

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Which sentence best summarizes the entire text?

A nine-year old black girl in Montgomery, Alabama writes letters to her cousin about the Montgomery bus boycott. It wasn’t easy for them, but after 381 days, the boycott ended and black people can sit where they want on the bus.

Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. leads a bus boycott to help make changes for black people. Many people are angry and his house is bombed.

Shirley writes a letter to her cousin describing how Rosa Parks refused to get off the bus. Ms. Parks  gets arrested by the police and goes to jail.

On December 15, 1955, Elizabeth writes a letter to Shirley  describing how in Detroit, anyone can sit anywhere they want on a bus.

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Identify a main theme from this passage. Use what you know about story elements in American Historical Fiction and evidence from the text to support your claim/opinion.