Grade 4 • Unit 2 • Week 1 Weekly Assessment /BNF

1 Grade 4 Unit 2 week 1 weekly assessment /BNF Standing Up to Segregation1 Rosa Parks was a black woman who helped start the CivilRights Movement in a very small way. She would not give upher seat on a bus!2 Rosa Parks s act took place in 1955. At that time, segrega-tion was a way of life in the American South. Segregation waswhen people were separated based on the color of their Black people were not allowed to be treated in the samehospitals as white people. They could not go to the samerestaurants. They could not use the same water fountains. Blackchildren could not go to the same schools as white could not use the same playgrounds as white Black people had to ride in the back of public buses.

2 InMontgomery, Alabama, if a white person wanted to sit downand all the front seats were taken, then a black person would beforced to give up his or her seat. Black people had no choicebut to follow these unfair rules every day. One day, RosaParks was told to give up her seat as well, but she decidedthat she would not give up her seat to the white man. She wasimmediately arrested by the police for her Black people had been treated this way for hundreds ofyears. Some people thought that segregation was did not. There were many challenges in court, butsouthern states did not end Parks s challenge was not meant to result in a court day on the bus, it is likely that the riders had little ideathat they were watching history being made.

3 The peopleRead the passage Standing Up to Segregation and then answer Numbers 1 through 3..BDNJMMBO .D(SBX )JMM CA Progress MonitoringWeekly Assessment Grade 46 OJU 8 FFL Grade 4 Unit 2, week 1on the bus probably were unsuspecting about the effect ofParks s actions. After she was arrested, black leaders inMontgomery organized a boycott of city buses. The boycottwas led by Dr. Martin Luther King, For 382 days, black people refused to ride the city found other ways to get to work and school. Theywalked. They rode bicycles. They rode with people who hadcars. The boycott went on and on. It grew larger and , the United States Supreme Court said that segregatedseating on city buses was against the Rosa Parks continued her civil rights work for the restof her life until her death in 2005.

4 She spoke out for therights of African Americans. In 1999, she was awarded aCongressional Medal of Honor. This is the highest awardgiven by the government of the United 1 BSLT IBT CFFO DBMMFE UIF PG UIF $JWJM 3 JHIUT .PWFNFOU u .BDNJMMBO .D(SBX )JMM CA Progress MonitoringWeekly Assessment Grade 46 OJU 8 FFL Grade 4 Unit 2, week 1 Read this sentence fromthe QFPQMF PO UIF CVT QSPCBCMZ XFSF VOTVTQFDUJOH BCPVU UIF FGGFDU PG 1 BSLT T BDUJPOT The prefixun-means not, sothe wordunsuspecting meansA not guilty not imagining. The passage is called StandingUp to Segregation to make thepoint that Rosa ParksA obeyed the fought respected deserved to be arrested.

5 The author s purpose forwriting Standing Up toSegregation wasmainlytoA teach readers how to ride apublic entertain readers with afictional inform readers about theMontgomery bus persuade readers to visitMontgomery, Alabama..BDNJMMBO .D(SBX )JMM CA Progress MonitoringWeekly Assessment Grade 46 OJU 8 FFL Grade 4 Unit 2, week 1 Read the passage Levi Strauss, Gold Rush Peddler and then answer Numbers 4 through Strauss, Gold Rush Peddler1 The California gold rush was going strong! Every day,prospectors trekked their way out of San Francisco andheaded towards the gold diggings. Beside the trail, therestood a peddler, who set out his bags on the streets in hopesof selling his canvas tenting material.

6 The peddler s namewas Levi Strauss. Levi felt certain that the prospectors wouldneed the tenting material he was selling for their travels. Butsadly, no one stopped to buy the material. Not one prospectorstopped to look at the peddler s supplies. Tired and discour-aged, Levi gathered up his wares and went off to find a placeto sleep for the The following days were no better than the first. Not asingle traveler purchased material from the peddler. Thenearly one morning, the peddler noticed a miner coming fromthe gold mines, headed for the city. The miner s clothes werevery badly tattered and destroyed. They were worn and frayedat all the edges, and his pants were covered with patches.

7 Theminer saw the peddler s wares and asked if he had a pair ofpants for sale. The peddler had none. The miner wondered ifthe peddler had some cloth. But the only kind of cloth that thepeddler had was canvas. That was the material that was usedto make the tents. Suddenly, wheels started turning in Levi shead. Canvas was a strong, thick material. Maybe a pair ofpants could be made from the canvas! .BDNJMMBO .D(SBX )JMM CA Progress MonitoringWeekly Assessment Grade 46 OJU 8 FFL Grade 4 Unit 2, week 13 Together, the peddler and the miner went into SanFrancisco to find a tailor. Hurriedly, the tailor made a pair ofpants from the canvas.

8 The miner tried on the new pants. Hewas impressed. It was the best pair he had ever owned. Thetailor and the peddler were also On his way back, the peddler started to think more aboutthese canvas pants. He gathered all of the tenting material andtalked to as many tailors as he could. Within weeks, the peddlerwas busy selling pants to the miners. He later switched thematerial from canvas to denim because it was more pants, which became known as Levi s, were sold as fastas tailors could make them. Later, Strauss discovered that thepants pockets often wore out because the miners carried goldnuggets in them. He knew what had to be done.

9 He securedthe pockets with copper rivets. Soon the pants that had beeninspired by a gold rush peddler became the favorite garmentof the West. Levi Strauss was on his way to fame. And Levi swere on their way to becoming an everyday part of life..BDNJMMBO .D(SBX )JMM CA Progress MonitoringWeekly Assessment Grade 46 OJU 8 FFL Grade 4 Unit 2, week 14 Read this sentence from the day, prospectors trekkedtrekked their way out of San Francisco and headed towards the gold word means about the same as trekkedtrekked?A fledB talkedC trickedD traveled5 Details in the passage indicate that Levi Strauss mostly wasA a kind a greedy a creative a thoughtful Which best describes the organization of the passage?

10 A cause and effectB sequential orderC comparison and contrastD proposition and support Macmillan/McGraw-Hill 197 197CA Progress MonitoringWeekly Assessment Grade 4 Unit 2/ week 1 Grade 4 Unit 2, week 1 Polo wrote this story. It contains errors. Read the story and then answer Numbers 7 through s Trip(1) Leslie s aunt and uncle took her to Europe last july.(2) Leslie wanted to find out about places to see. (3) She read the magazine great places to visit around the world. (4) She learned quite a bit about the three country s they visited. (5) In Great Britain, they saw Westminster Abbey. (6) In France, they saw many farms. (7) Farmers were picking grapes.