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CHANGE THE WORD, YOU RADICAL
6.08 Impact
Total Points: 30
Part 1: Field Women
Read the poem “The Women Who Went to the Field” by Clara Barton that’s linked on the
Task page. Answer the questions below in complete sentences. Use quotations from the
poem in some of your answers. Be sure to put quote marks around these passages to
indicate that they are from the poem and not your original words.
1. What would have made Clara Barton uniquely qualified to compose this poem?
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2. What would you judge motivated Ms. Barton’s opening that culminates with the line
“That the place for the women was in their homes”?
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