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Authors don’t always tell you everything directly in the story.
Sometimes you have to make inferences and draw conclusions
about a selection or character by using clues from the text along
with your own experiences. Drawing conclusions will help you
understand the selection better.
Read the following lines from “The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere.”
Then answer the questions.
You know the rest in the books you have read
How the British Regulars fi red and fl ed,
How the farmers gave them ball for ball,
From behind each fence and the farmyard wall,
Chasing the red-coats down the lane,
Then crossing the fi elds to emerge again
Under the trees at the turn of the road,
And only pausing to fi re and load.
1. What conclusion can you make about the colonists fi ghting the British
Regulars? What evidence supports your conclusion?
Practice
Comprehension:
Draw Conclusions
2. Did the British retreat? What line(s) from the poem support your conclusion?
3. How do you know that the colonists were determined to gain their
independence? What was the result of their fi ght for freedom?
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Sleds on Boston Common
Grade 5/Unit 3
At Home: Write a summary that draws a conclusion from a
book or news article about the American Revolution.
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