Reading closely means following what happens, identifying the main point, and using the passage to explain your answer. This week continues that practice, then begins the story of Black Americans moving from the South to Northern cities. After slavery ended, farm debt and racial violence still limited many Black families’ freedom, helping explain why they would seek new lives elsewhere.
Leave with: Words in the passage that support each answer.
Mark the words in the passage that support your choice.
03 / WRITE
Write
Leave with: A brief explanation of one missed answer.
Build your response in your notebook
Read the assigned passage and write a brief gist for each paragraph.
For each answer, mark the words in the passage that support your choice.
When you review a mistake, explain why the correct answer fits and why your first answer did not.
04 / CHECK
Check
Leave with: A corrected answer supported by the passage.
Check Yourself
Every one of these questions will be on the reading quiz.
ACT reading practice and the start of Chapter 13. This check uses YPT; keep working with your separately assigned ACT passages in class.
Complete the explanation.
Practice reading causal explanations as Chapter 13 begins. Southern debt and violence were , while northern hiring created a . Rail connections helped people move. Distinguish what migrants expected from what they encountered: jobs could coexist with housing . An inference should connect details supported by the passage. The central relationship is between opportunity and the institutions that continued to restrict and collective .
