Question:
Read the text and answer the questions.
Seven years ago, Dawn Larkin-Wallace, a mom of three, took up running to lose that 10 to 20 pounds of baby weight that just wouldn't go away.

She figured once she dropped the weight, she'd be off the treadmill.

What she could have never imagined is that she'd become a marathon runner who inspired her three children to start running, too.

"We're just a running family," said Larkin-Wallace of Baldwin, New York, who is part of the running club Black Girls RUN!, a national group encouraging African-American women to make health and fitness a priority.

First, Larkin-Wallace signed up 15-year-old daughter Kayla, a high school sophomore, for a race after realizing that the amount of running she did during her soccer games was the equivalent of a 5K.

With the "positive peer pressure ... and the competitive spirit" that exists in the Wallace household, she said with a laugh, "of course, her brother and sister decided that that's something they wanted to do, too."

Kimberly, 11, and Kevin Jr., 9, ran their first 5K's this year.

Larkin-Wallace said her goal is for "healthy living to become a lifestyle and not just a fad" among her kids, who also play a range of sports from basketball to soccer to lacrosse.

What she's also very mindful of is encouraging her children, especially her girls, to feel good about their bodies. A recent study found that two in three 13-year-olds worry about gaining weight.

Helping her girls feel good about their bodies

"It's always on my mind, and I have African-American daughters. ... I have to help them understand that because their body type is different than others doesn't make one better or more right than the other," she said during a conversation with her family in their home.
1. What do 66% of teenagers worry about?
2. What does Dawn Larkin-Wallace say about that?
3. What group did she start?
4. What group is she a part of?
5. What does the group do?
6. What does her daughter Kayla play?
7. How many members of her family have run a 5k?
8. Does the group only encourage walking and running?
9. Did Dawn start running as a hobby?
10. How long ago did she start?
11. Did she see it being a long term thing?
12. Has she competed in any events?
13. Do all of her children run too?
14. What sort of atmosphere pervade their family's home?
15. How many members of her family is a teen?

Numbered answers:
1. Gaining weight
2. "...because their body type is different than others doesn't make one better or more right than the other,"
3. unknown
4. Black Girls RUN!
5. Encourages African-American women to make health and fitness a priority
6. Soccer
7. Three
8. No
9. No
10. Seven years ago
11. No
12. unknown
13. Yes
14. Competitive spirit
15. One

Question:
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I am very hungry. I look for my mother.

When is dinner? I ask.

Dinner is at six, my mother says.

What can we eat? I ask.

We can pick food from our garden, she says. I help her pick corn, beans, and peas.

The corn is yellow and white. The beans are small and brown. The peas are green and round.

I put the beans in a basket. I put the peas in a bowl. Mother brings the corn. We go inside.

I have dirty hands. I wash my hands with soap and water. The water is warm. My hands are now clean.

Mother lets me stir the beans. I fill a pot with water. Mother puts the corn into the pot. She puts the pot on the stove. The water boils.

Mary is my sister. Mary puts four plates on the table. Each plate is blue.

We each eat two pieces of meat. I eat more corn than Mary. Mary eats more beans than our mother.

What did you learn today? Mary asks.

I can spell ten new words, I say.

Mary can only spell two words.
1. Do you have siblings?
2. Who?
3. What chore did she complete?
4. What did she put down?
5. What colour were they?
6. Where did she put them?
7. Where did they get the ingredients for dinner?
8. What vegetables did they get?
9. What do they look like?
10. Where did they put them?
11. Then where did they go?
12. Who ate the most corn?
13. And beans?
14. How much did your mother eat?
15. Who learned more today?
16. What went onto the stove?
17. What else was inside?
18. What did it do next?
19. How much meat was eaten?
20. How many people eat?

Numbered answers:
1. yes
2. Mary
3. setting the table
4. four plates
5. blue
6. on the table
7. from the garden
8. corn and peas
9. The corn is yellow and white. The peas are green and round
10. in a bowl and inside
11. inside
12. I do
13. Mary
14. fewer beans than Mary
15. I
16. the corn in the pot
17. water
18. boil
19. Six
20. Three

Question:
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Kansas is a U.S. state in the Midwestern United States. Its capital is Topeka and its largest city is Wichita. Kansas is named after the Kansa Native American tribe, which inhabited the area. The tribe's name (natively "") is often said to mean "people of the (south) wind" although this was probably not the term's original meaning. For thousands of years, what is now Kansas was home to numerous and diverse Native American tribes. Tribes in the eastern part of the state generally lived in villages along the river valleys. Tribes in the western part of the state were semi-nomadic and hunted large herds of bison.

Kansas was first settled by European Americans in 1812, in what is now Bonner Springs, but the pace of settlement accelerated in the 1850s, in the midst of political wars over the slavery issue. When it was officially opened to settlement by the U.S. government in 1854 with the KansasNebraska Act, abolitionist Free-Staters from New England and pro-slavery settlers from neighboring Missouri rushed to the territory to determine whether Kansas would become a free state or a slave state. Thus, the area was a hotbed of violence and chaos in its early days as these forces collided, and was known as Bleeding Kansas. The abolitionists prevailed, and on January 29, 1861, Kansas entered the Union as a free state. After the Civil War, the population of Kansas grew rapidly when waves of immigrants turned the prairie into farmland.
1. What is Kansas?
2. Where?
3. Is it in the South?
4. Where then?
5. Where did the name come from?
6. When was it first settled by anyone other than Native Americans?
7. What happened in 1812?
8. In what city?
9. What was it known as during the settlement time?
10. Why?
11. Who was fighting?
12. Who won?
13. When did they become a state?
14. Did all of the tribes live the same way?
15. How were they divided?
16. How did the Eastern part live?
17. And the west?
18. Did they hunt anything?
19. What?
20. What was the KansaNebraska Act?
Numbered answers:
1. a state
2. in the United States
3. no
4. in the Midwest
5. the Kansa
6. no
7. it was settled by European Americans
8. Bonner Springs
9. Bleeding Kansas
10. the area was a hotbed of violence and chaos
11. abolitionist Free-Staters and pro-slavery settlers
12. The abolitionists
13. January 29, 1861
14. no
15. into eastern and western parts of the state
16. in villages along the river valleys.
17. they were semi-nomadic
18. yes
19. bison.
20. it opened to Kansas to settlement