Problem: Dolores Huerta has worked hard most of her life to help other people. She has helped change things so that farm workers can have a better life. Dolores grew up in California. She was a good student and liked school. After she finished high school, she went to college and studied to be a teacher. After she became a teacher, Dolores noticed that many of her students were not getting enough food to eat. Some of them wore very old clothes. Dolores wondered how she could help them. Dolores decided to stop teaching so that she could spend more time helping the farm workers and their families. One thing she wanted to do was to get more pay for farm workers so they could buy their children the things they needed. Dolores knew that many farm workers moved often from one place to another to help pick different kinds of fruits and vegetables. She began talking and writing about these workers. Even people who lived far from California read what Dolores wrote. Getting higher pay for the farm workers was not easy. Dolores worked hard to make sure that farm workers got good pay for their work. She knew that nothing would change unless people made new laws to help the workers. Through all her hard work, new laws were made that gave farm workers good pay. Dolores Huerta has worked for more than 30 years in many different ways to make life better for working people. She has shown how much one person can change things.
1. Was getting higher wages for the workers easy?
2. But did someone make it happen?
3. Who?
4. She thought nothing would change unless what new things were made?
5. Were new laws made?
6. How many years did Dolores invest in helping the workers?
7. Where was she raised?
8. Did she do good in school?
9. Did she enjoy going?
10. Did she finish high school?
11. Where did she go after that?
12. What did she study to be?
13. What were many of her students not getting enough of?
14. What were their clothes like?
15. Did Dolores quit her job?
16. Why?
17. Why did she want the workers to make more money?
18. Do farm workers travel from place to place?
19. So they can do what?
20. Did she write about the farm workers?
Answer: 1. No
2. Yes
3. Dolores Huerta
4. New laws to help the workers.
5. Yes
6. More than 30 years
7. California
8. Yes
9. Yes
10. Yes
11. College
12. A teacher
13. Food
14. Very old
15. Yes
16. So she could spend more time helping the farm workers
17. So they could buy their children the things they needed
18. Yes
19. To pick fruits and vegetables
20. Yes

Problem: CHAPTER XXVIII

A PAINFUL DUTY

Three months had slipped away since the evening on which Wheeler had discussed the subject of shingle-splitting with his companions. Nasmyth stood outside the shanty in the drenching rain. He was very wet and miry, and his face was lined and worn, for the three months of unremitting effort had left their mark on him. Wheeler had secured the timber rights in question, and that was one difficulty overcome, but Nasmyth had excellent reasons for believing that the men who had cast covetous eyes upon the valley had by no means abandoned the attempt to get possession of at least part of it.

He had had flood and frost against him, and his money was rapidly running out. A wild flood swept through the canon. The heading was filled up, so that no one could even see the mouth of it, and half the rock he had piled upon the shingle had been swept into the rapid, where it had formed a dam among the boulders that could be removed only at a heavy expenditure of time and powder when the water fell. He was worn out in body, and savage from being foiled by the swollen river at each attempt he made, but while the odds against him were rapidly growing heavier he meant to fight.

A Siwash Indian whom he had hired as messenger between the canon and the settlement had just arrived, and Gordon, who stood in the doorway of the shanty, took a newspaper out of the wet packet he had brought. Gordon turned to Nasmyth when he opened it.
1. what was running out quickly for him?
2. what else had gone badly?
3. what had happened to the stone he'd put on shingle?
4. what was it doing now?
5. was it easy to remove?
6. what type of chemical was going to be needed?
7. could it be done during the high water?
8. not until?
9. was he energized?
10. in good mood?
11. why not?
12. was he ready to give in?
13. how long since the discussion about shingles?
14. who was outdoors?
15. was he looking youthful
16. who got tree rights?
17. was that helpful?
18. what tribe was his messenger from?
19. who came with him?
20. where did he stand?
Answer: 1. money
2. He had had flood and frost against him
3. it had been swept into the rapid,
4. it had formed a dam
5. No
6. powder
7. No
8. the water fell.
9. No
10. No
11. from being foiled by the swollen river
12. No
13. Three months
14. Nasmyth
15. No
16. Wheeler
17. No
18. Siwash Indian
19. Gordon
20. in the doorway of the shanty,

Problem: It was Saturday and it was nice outside. I did not have school and my mom did not have work. When I woke up we ate breakfast and got ready for the day. My mom started to clean up the house so I went up to my room to play with my toys. My mom came upstairs and told me, "If you clean up your room there is a great surprise in it for you." I was very excited about what the surprise was but not very excited to clean my room. My mom left and closed the door. I looked around and saw how messy my room was. And I really did not want to clean it. So what I did was pick up all my stuff in my room and put it all in my closet. It did not take me very long so I hung out in my room for a little bit longer before heading downstairs to the basement to tell my mom I was ready for my surprise. She came upstairs to see how I did and immediately saw what I did. She was not happy about it. She said, "You either do it right, or Ill do it right and you won't get a surprise." That was enough to make me clean my room right. Finally, my mom told me the surprise when I was all finished. She told me we were going out to the park! But by the time we got there, I could only play for a little bit before it started getting dark. I wished I would have cleaned my room right the first time so I had more time at the park.
1. What day was it?
2. How was it outside?
3. Didhe have school?
4. How about his mom?
5. What did they do in the morning?
6. what else?
7. What did mom do?
8. What did you do?
9. why?
10. Where did mom go?
11. Why?
12. What?
13. How did you feel?
14. about what?
15. Where did mom go?
16. Where did you put your stuff?
17. Did it take long?
18. Did mom see the room?
19. Was she happy?
20. What did she say?
Answer:
1. Saturday
2. nice
3. no
4. no
5. ate breakfast
6. got ready for the day
7. clean
8. went to my room
9. to play with my toys
10. upstairs
11. to tell me something
12. "If you clean up your room there is a great surprise in it for you
13. excited
14. the surprise
15. she left
16. In the closet
17. no
18. yes
19. no
20. You either do it right, or Ill do it right and you won't get a surprise