Directions: Discuss each quote with your partner and record what you believe each means. 1. must work harder. She must earn all the money to pay what they owed, so she could gather her family “She together back on the farm while she still had a family let to (p. 88) gather.” _________________________________________________________________________________________ 2. was too tired now at night to copy out a page of Oliver to paste to her loom. It hardly mattered. When “She would she have time to study (p. 98) it?” 3. be strong enough again to work in a mill thirteen, fourteen hours a day. When I am ready to go “She’ll never myself, she thought, maybe I could sign that cussed petition. Not for me. I need it, but for Betsy and the don’t others. It right for this place to suck the strength of their youth, then cast them off like dry husks to the ain’t (p. 113) wind.” __________________________________________________________________________________________ Name:____________________________________________ Date:_________________________
Directions: Discuss each quote with your partner and record what you believe each means. 1. “She must work harder. She must earn all the money to pay what they owed, so she could gather her family together back on the farm while she still had a family let to gather.” (p. 88) 2. “She was too tired now at night to copy out a page of Oliver to paste to her loom. It hardly mattered. When would she have time to study it?” (p. 98) 3. “She’ll never be strong enough again to work in a mill thirteen, fourteen hours a day. When I am ready to go myself, she thought, maybe I could sign that cussed petition. Not for me. I don’t need it, but for Betsy and the others. It ain’t right for this place to suck the strength of their youth, then cast them off like dry husks to the wind.” (p. 113) Name:____________________________________________ Date:_________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________
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