Question

I Am American
by Jennifer Tibbets

(TY SMITH enters. SILHOUETTES pantomime work and hum “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot.”)

TY SMITH: I am American. My ancestors were taken from Africa in the 1750s and sold into slavery in Virginia. They worked from sunup to sundown, growing cotton while others grew rich. Life was so hard they created music—spirituals and later the Blues—to ease their pain. (SILHOUETTES join hands, singing softly.) It took over a hundred years for them to be free, and another hundred to live without segregation. Still, I am American. My family’s blood is in this soil.

Use the passage above to answer the question.

How does the Silhouettes’ singing of “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot” enhance Ty Smith’s story?

(1 point)
Responses

It provides an example of the blues music Ty’s people invented.
It provides an example of the blues music Ty’s people invented.

It accompanies a story of slavery with a spiritual song that was sung by enslaved people.
It accompanies a story of slavery with a spiritual song that was sung by enslaved people.

It offers the precise factual details that are glossed over in the speech.
It offers the precise factual details that are glossed over in the speech.
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Answer 1

It accompanies a story of slavery with a spiritual song that was sung by enslaved people.