Where the Versions Meet
RL.4.7
Read the text, then answer the questions.
The Quarry, Filled
Stanza one: They took the hill away in carts for ninety years, and then they stopped. The hole they left filled up with rain until the rain had reached the top. Stanza two: Now people swim where men once cut. The water hides the ledge, the crane, the drill-marks in the standing rock, the tracks, the shed, the loading lane. Stanza three: The children diving off the edge have never heard the word for it. They call it "the lake". They are not wrong. A thing becomes what people make of it.
- 1. Which line states the poem's conclusion?
- 2. Quote the list of what is under the water.
- 3. What would a picture of the second stanza show?
The Lost Ledger
Mr Kaur ran the shop on the corner for forty-one years and never used a till roll. He kept a ledger. Every debt in the village was in it, in pencil, and every settlement crossed out. Nobody ever asked to see it. Nobody ever queried it. When he retired he handed the ledger to his daughter, who was taking over. She found eleven debts outstanding, some six years old, totalling more than she took in a fortnight. She thought about it for a week. Then she went through the book, tore out those pages, and started a new one with a card machine on the counter. She never told him. He never asked.
- 1. Quote the words that show the village trusted the ledger.
- 2. Which moment would an illustration of this story show?
- 3. Which sentence shows the daughter did not decide quickly?
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