Quiz Gecko Test - PDF

Standard: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.4.1 - Refer to details and examples in a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text. Students should be able to: use the text to draw a logical conclusion\ can state the evidence that supports an inference 0: The Rev...

Standard: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.4.1 - Refer to details and examples in a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text. Students should be able to: use the text to draw a logical conclusion\ can state the evidence that supports an inference 0: The Revolutionary War years were a terrible and dangerous time. Many patriots had to flee their homes, and many lost everything they owned. 1: Others suffered one of life\'s hardest challenges, they were torn from their loved ones. 2: Abigail Adams and John Adams spent many years apart during the period of our nation\'s founding, but their love for America and each other pulled them through. 3: The year was seventeen seventy five, and sparks of rebellion whirled through the air. 4: The American colonists were talking about freedom from England. British redcoats swarmed through the streets of Boston. 5: Patriots held secret meetings while men such as Paul Revere jumped on their horses and galloped from town to town, carrying news and warnings. 6: Minutemen, farmers and tradesmen ready to fight on a moment\'s notice, shouldered their muskets and marched toward Boston. 7: Everyone wondered if America and Britain were on the road to war. 8: In the village of Braintree, near Boston, Abigail Adams struggled amid the confusion and alarm. 9: Her husband, John, was far away in Philadelphia at a meeting of the Continental Congress. 10: There, leaders such as George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Benjamin Franklin were gathering to plot America\'s future. 11: With John in Philadelphia, it was up to Abigail to care for the children and manage the farm alone. \"