1. refer to your expeditions in reading book for a complete version of this text.

which two responses are main ideas from “young frederick douglass”?

which statements are main ideas of "harriet tubman and the underground railroad"?

select the two correct answers.

a. the underground railroad is an organization that people escape slavery.

b. tubman risks her life to escape alone to find freedom in pennsylvania.

c. the underground railroad has nothing to do with trains or traveling.

d. tubman and her brothers are worried about being separated.

a. douglass figures out clever ways to get the people around him to teach him to write.

b. thomas auld believes he can stop douglass from reading and writing by punishing him.

c. douglass spends time studying in his small room above the kitchen.

d. thomas auld sends douglass to work for his brother in st. michael’s, maryland.

2. refer to your expeditions in reading book for a complete version of this text.

read the main ideas and key details from “young frederick douglass.”

select main idea 1 or main idea 2 to classify each key detail.

key detail

main idea 1

douglass is determined to learn to read.

main idea 2

reading douglass understand that slavery is wrong.

1. douglass works to earn money to buy the books he wants to read.

2. douglass uses every opportunity he can find to practice reading.

3. mr. auld forbids douglass from reading, because he is afraid it will give him ideas.

4. douglass learns about a person held in slavery who debates his master and wins his freedom.