Name: ___________________________
Date: __________
Period: _________
Quilt of a Country Warm Up Day 2
Directions: Use the word bank to fill in the missing words from the summary below. Once
you have used a word, cross it off the list.
Background
A Quilt of a Country is an _________________ written by Pulitzer-prize winning
author_______________
__________________ for _______________________ magazine following
the devastation of the September 11, 2001, attacks on_______________. The idea she
__________________ about is that despite the diversity that can create __________________
among people across America, diversity also serves as a tribute to what makes
America___________________.
Summary
Quindlen explains how America is made up of people of ___________________
backgrounds and how people from different nationalities mix together to create a
____________________ population. Quindlen writes metaphorically when she
_________________ our country to a ____________. A __________________ is made up of many
pieces of fabric, but then ties together to create the main objective; the quilt. Quindlen also
points out that _________________ know about terrible _______________ that occur in America
on a regular basis. How can ______________ believe anything ________________ about their
country if all they read in _____________ books and see on T.V. is hatred among each
other? But she concludes that when America does come together as ______, the result is
something more powerful than any other country in the ____________.
How is it relevant?
It's important because the essay ______________ how America was built
and how the same ____________ that occurred in the past still occur today. During a
_____________, Americans come together as one, but when Americans don’t have a common
___________, their differences do not affect them in a positive way.
Word Bank
quilt
describes
one
writes
tragedy
different
history
essay
events
Newsweek
America
children
world
issues
bond
children
compares
Anna Quindlen
special
diverse
positive
trouble
quilt