PART A: Which statement identifies the central idea of the text?

behind the native american achievement gap.

A. While education of Native Americans has improved over the years, Native Americans continue to be isolated from their culture and history in the classroom.

B. While the boarding schools of the 1900s were traumatic for Native Americans, it is unlikely that this is the reason the current generation is struggling in school.

C. While a majority of the Native American boarding schools have been eradicated, the few that continue to use violence to force assimilation negatively impact the whole community.

D. Native Americans often don’t succeed in school because they have a drastically different perspective of historical events in America.

The statement which identifies the central idea of the text "Behind the Native American Achievement Gap" is:

A. While education of Native Americans has improved over the years, Native Americans continue to be isolated from their culture and history in the classroom.

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This was a conversation between a journalist and a professor of American Indian Studies, who spoke about aspects that explain and throw light on how Americans, today are coping with education, curriculum and knowledge based research.

Explanation:

This was a simple yet deep conversation that spoke about sensitive and crucial aspects of Native Americans and their education over the years. This text is for readers to understand how and why there were certain situations which created a sense of ambiguity, vulnerability and fear of the style that was followed by boarding schools for Native Americans.

Professor Truer talks about how negatively these boarding schools influenced children in the beginning of the 1900s. They created an effect on the entire generation which lasted for more than 70 years till a proper reformation of these ideas and ideology were eliminated, not completely but in majority.

But he makes it a firm point for us to understand that there is no specific agenda or situation that states or shows readers how this is still effecting high school graduates today, for their lower academic performances.

1. read the following excerpt from franklin d. roosevelt's "fireside chat 19":

on the other side of the picture, we must learn also to know that guerilla warfare against the germans in, let us say serbia or norway, us; that a successful russian offensive against the germans us; and that british successes on land or sea in any part of the world strengthen our hands.

remember always that germany and italy, regardless of any formal declaration of war, consider themselves at war with the united states at this moment just as much as they consider themselves at war with britain or russia. and germany puts all the other republics of the americas into the same category of enemies. the people of our sister republics of this hemisphere can be honored by that fact.  

the true goal we seek is far above and beyond the ugly field of battle. when we resort to force, as now we must, we are determined that this force shall be directed toward ultimate good as well as against immediate evil. we americans are not destroyers — we are builders.

analyze the effectiveness of this excerpt. how does it function within the speech as a whole? how does the structure of the excerpt to convey the speech's purpose and key points? support your argument with evidence from the speech. (10 points)