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Summarizing Practice

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Question 1

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You tell all white men “America First.” We believe in that. We are the only ones, truly, that are 100 percent. We therefore ask you while you are teaching school children about America First, teach them truth about the First Americans.

We do not know if school histories are pro-British, but we do know that they are unjust to the life of our people—the American Indian. They call all white victories, battles, and all Indian victories, massacres. The battle with Custer has been taught to school children as a fearful massacre on our part. We ask that this, as well as other incidents, be told fairly. If the Custer battle was a massacre, what was Wounded Knee?

History books teach that Indians were murderers—is it murder to fight in self-defense? Indians killed white men because white men took their lands, ruined their hunting grounds, burned their forests, destroyed their buffalo. White men penned our people on reservations, then took away the reservations. White men who rise to protect their property are called patriots —Indians who do the same are called murderers.

What is the best best summary of this passage?

History fairly and objectively depicts the interactions between white settlers and Native Americans 

White men who protected their property were called patriots, but Native Americans who protected their property were called murderers.

Compared to their white counterparts, Native Americans are viewed negatively in history books for the same actions done by white settlers.

A victory by a white settlers is a battle, but a victory by Native Americans is a Massacure.

Question 2

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White men called Indians thieves—and yet we lived in frail skin lodges and needed no locks or iron bars. White men call Indians savages. What is civilization? Its marks are a noble religion and philosophy, original arts, stirring music, rich history and legend. We had these. Then we were not savages, but a civilized race.

What is the best summary of paragraph 5 of "The First Americans"?

Unlike the white settlers, Native American tribes did not need jails or locks on their doors.

White men called Indians thieves and savages, but it was untrue.

Native American tribes did not have a noble religion, philosophy, original arts, stirring music, rich history, and legend.

In 1927, the Grand Council wrote a letter, arguing that Native Americans are a civilized race with religion, philosophy, and the arts, because white men called them thieves and savages. 

Question 3

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We made blankets that were beautiful that the white man with all his machinery has never been able to duplicate. We made baskets that were beautiful. We wove in beads and colored quills, designs that were not just decorative motifs, but were the outward expression of our very thoughts. We made pottery—pottery that was useful and beautiful as well. Why not make school children acquainted with the beautiful handicrafts in which we were skilled? Put in every school Indian blankets, baskets, pottery.

What is the best summary of this paragraph?

Native Americans are better than white men at making blankets.

American school children should be given the chance to study the art of Native American handicrafts.

Blankets, pottery, and other arts made by Native Americans are just as good or better than those made by white artists.

School children in America are taught that white artists make better art than Native American artists.

Question 4

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We sang songs that carried in their melodies all the sounds of nature— the running of waters, the sighing of winds, and the calls of the animals. Teach these to your children that they may come to love nature as we love it.

What is the best Objective summary of this paragraph?

The songs sung by Native Americans were absolutely amazing and should be taught in school.

Native American songs reflect the sounds of nature, including the calls of wild animals.

Students can learn to love nature by studying Native American songs, which celebrate nature.

Singing songs about nature is a good way to learn about the natural world.

Question 5

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Which two sentences express ideas that should be included in a summary of the editorial “Machines, Not People, Should be Exploring the Stars for Now”?

Machines, not people, should explore space for now because human space travel is so expensive due to humans needs to survive in space.

Humans are a versitile and independent.

Possible manned missions to Mars are imagined to cost about $1 trillion.

In the last several weeks, two events demanded the attention of space enthusiasts. On March 30, entrepreneur Elon Musk's Space X company successfully reused a previously flown rocket to launch a communication satellite into space. 

This editorial was written in 2017 to help persuade scientists on the best method of space exploration given our current resources.