OLS ELA 6.4 Run, Kate Shelley, Run Wrap-up

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Read the excerpt from “Run, Kate Shelley, Run.”

Kate gripped the lantern tighter and stumbled along the rails, following them like a road into the blackness and storm. She ran and fell, slipped and stumbled, toward the Moingona railroad station over a mile away. 

Kate’s chest burned. She was wet clear through and shaking with cold, but she could not stop. If it were Pa hanging on in Honey Creek or driving the midnight express, she would keep going. I must reach the station in time, she thought. 

What inference can be made about Kate based on the details in the excerpt and what the reader has learned about Kate so far?

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    Because she has been running so hard, it hurts to breathe.

• Kate is having trouble running because she is so panicked.

• Without her Pa by her side, she is unsure how to help.

• Kate knows she has plenty of time to reach the railroad station. 

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Which statement is a main idea of "Run, Kate Shelley, Run"?

• By alerting the railroad men at the station in time to stop the midnight express, Kate prevents a train wreck.

• When Kate is a young girl, her father teaches her to identify the names of trains by the sound of their whistles.

• The rain and wind put out Kate’s only lantern, so she must feel her way in the dark to reach the station.

• Kate is so exhausted from leading the rescue party to the stranded men that she loses her way.

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Which detail from “Run, Kate Shelley, Run” best supports the idea that people feel Kate should be remembered for her bravery?

• “However, the honor most dear to her came from the railroad men themselves.” 

• “’Not on your life!’ said the station agent. ‘That’s Shelley’s girl Kate.’”

• “Whenever she wanted to ride the Chicago and Northwestern, they stopped the train just for her.”

• “And after her death, the Order of Railway Conductors and Brakemen placed a memorial to their Iowa heroine.”

Which statement is a main idea of the text?

• Carver helps people figure out what is wrong with their plants.

• Before Carver, peanuts were not recognized as a crop in the United States.

• Sweet potato and pea plants do not pull nutrients from the soil.

• Many African American farmers grow cotton and raise animals for a living.

Choose he sentence that best supports the idea that to grow the best crops each year, farmers should rotate cotton with other crops.

Later, when he was teaching at Tuskegee Institute, he put his plant skills to good use. Many people in the South had been growing only cotton on their land. Cotton plants use most of the nutrients in the soil. (Nutrients provide nourishment to plants.) So, the soil becomes "worn out" after a few years. Eventually, cotton will no longer grow on this land.

• Many people in the South had been growing only cotton on their land.

• Cotton plants use most of the nutrients in the soil.

• Eventually, cotton will no longer grow on this land.

• Later, when he was teaching at Tuskegee Institute, he put his plant skills to good use.