Read the passage below and in the text box answer the question that follows. Part 2 America Doesn’t Need an Official LanguageBy Carlos LozadaOpinion Columnist (New York Times, March 6, 2025) In his March 1 executive order designating English as the official language of the United States, President Trump asserts that a single shared language is “at the core of a unified, cohesive society,” that it serves to “streamline communication,” promote efficiency and “empower new citizens to achieve the American Dream.” On these points, I have little disagreement. Just about every immigrant I’ve ever known in the United States — starting with my father — has sought to learn English for just those reasons. It was relatively easy for my sisters and me to pick it up as kids, and my mother had learned it well from the beloved American nuns who taught her in Peru. But my dad, coming to it later in life, always had to work at it. And work he did. His errors of pronunciation never kept him from speaking English, even singing it, loudly and proudly. I cringed a bit at the time. Now I cringe at the memory of my cringing. Had English suddenly become the official language of the United States via an executive order from President Gerald Ford, I can’t imagine that my father would have learned it any faster or that he would have felt more encouragement to do so. The need to work, to provide, was all the incentive he required. In the textbox, use your own words (not not copy from the text) write 1-2 complete sentences to answer the question. Question: What is President Trump’s main reason to make English the official language of the United States, and what does the author think about it?

Read the passage below and in the text box answer the question that follows. Part 2 America Doesn’t Need an Official LanguageBy Carlos LozadaOpinion Columnist (New York Times, March 6, 2025) In his March 1 executive order designating English as the official language of the United States, President Trump asserts that a single shared language is “at the core of a unified, cohesive society,” that it serves to “streamline communication,” promote efficiency and “empower new citizens to achieve the American Dream.” On these points, I have little disagreement. Just about every immigrant I’ve ever known in the United States — starting with my father — has sought to learn English for just those reasons. It was relatively easy for my sisters and me to pick it up as kids, and my mother had learned it well from the beloved American nuns who taught her in Peru. But my dad, coming to it later in life, always had to work at it. And work he did. His errors of pronunciation never kept him from speaking English, even singing it, loudly and proudly. I cringed a bit at the time. Now I cringe at the memory of my cringing. Had English suddenly become the official language of the United States via an executive order from President Gerald Ford, I can’t imagine that my father would have learned it any faster or that he would have felt more encouragement to do so. The need to work, to provide, was all the incentive he required. In the textbox, use your own words (not not copy from the text) write 1-2 complete sentences to answer the question. Question: Compare the author’s family experience learning English to your own family experience? How was the author’s experience similar or different from your own experience?

Read the passage below and in the text box answer the question that follows. Part 4 America Doesn’t Need an Official LanguageBy Carlos LozadaOpinion Columnist (New York Times, March 6, 2025) And what are our “shared national values,” if not those self-evident truths of the Declaration of Independence? Political equality, natural rights and popular sovereignty can be expressed, upheld and lived out in any language. Trust me that fluency in Spanish does not stall the pursuit of happiness. And it does not discourage any of us from learning English. Worries over the corrosive influence of languages other than English have a long history in the United States. Reflecting on America’s openness to immigrants and the need for newcomers to assimilate, Theodore Roosevelt wrote that “we have room for but one language here and that is the English language, for we intend to see that the crucible turns our people out as Americans of American nationality and not as dwellers in a polyglot boardinghouse.” Today, nearly 80 percent of people in the United States age 5 or older speak exclusively English at home, according to the latest American Community Survey. For the others who speak another language at home, Spanish is the most common alternative, and more than 60 percent of those Spanish speakers also know English “very well,” the survey finds. Safe to say, we have yet to take up residence in Roosevelt’s boardinghouse. In 2023, when JD Vance was serving in the Senate, he sponsored the English Language Unity Act. Yet even as he made his case for an official language, Vance unintentionally emphasized the bill’s superfluousness. In the textbox, use your own words (not not copy from the text) write 1-2 complete sentences to answer the question. Question: According to the author, how does speaking other languages like Spanish affect English learning? Do you agree with the author’s opinion?

Read the passage below and in the text box answer the question that follows. Part 3 America Doesn’t Need an Official LanguageBy Carlos LozadaOpinion Columnist (New York Times, March 6, 2025) So, it’s not that I reject the arguments about efficiency and empowerment; I just question the need for a presidential order to enshrine them. I was tested on my English skills when I became a U.S. citizen a decade ago, but the market tells immigrants we must learn the language, more clearly than the government ever could. Where Trump’s order moves from redundancy to confusion to cynicism is in its statement that a single official language will “cultivate a shared American culture” and “reinforce shared national values.” After all, what is our shared culture if not the mix of cultures — including languages — that make and remake America every day? You may as well argue that a single cuisine or a single style of music or a single literary genre is more truly American than any other. Thank God that my immigrant childhood means I can read Cervantes and Mario Vargas Llosa in Spanish and Shakespeare and Toni Morrison in English. If I can, why wouldn’t I? I grew up with two languages, and I regret not learning a third the way other people learn a second. Think how much richer the nation would be if we all knew more languages, not fewer, if we embraced a multiplicity of influences rather than shielding ourselves from them. In the textbox, use your own words (not not copy from the text) write 1-2 complete sentences to answer the question. Question: What is the author’s main argument against the need to make English the official language of the United States?

Read the passage below and in the text box answer the question that follows. Part 1 America Doesn’t Need an Official LanguageBy Carlos LozadaOpinion Columnist (New York Times, March 6, 2025) I was 3 years old the first time I mixed up Spanish and English. It would not be the last. It was 1975, and my family had recently migrated from Peru to Northern California. Shortly after our arrival, according to Lozada lore, I asked my parents and older sisters, “¿Vamos a tener todo lo sinisario?,” meaning, “Will we have everything we need?” Except I garbled the word “necesario,” coming up with the nonsense word “sinisario.” Everyone chuckled, so I tried to defend myself. “Es que yo no sé inglés,” I said. (“It’s that I don’t know English.”) That made everyone laugh harder, because, of course, my mistake had been in Spanish. It was a preview of what the next five decades would bring, as the two languages jostled for primacy in my mind. Our moves back and forth between the United States and Peru during my childhood compelled me to latch on to whichever language I needed most at different times, even while striving to retain the other. Sometimes my English was stronger, sometimes my Spanish. No one had to tell me which language mattered when, or whether one or the other was “official.” Wherever I was, I knew. In the textbox, use your own words (not not copy from the text) write 1-2 complete sentences to answer the question. Question: From the information you read, what can you infer about the author’s age today?

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