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The city archive was scheduled for demolition, and Nadia was the last employee left to decide what to save. Two hundred years of records filled the basement: birth certificates, property deeds, letters, ledgers. The new digital system had room for only a fraction.
Her supervisor’s instructions were simple: keep documents with legal value; discard the rest.
But in a box marked "Misc." she found a child’s school essay from 1911 titled "What I Will Be." The girl, Marta, wanted to be a doctor at a time when few women could. Clipped to it was a 1932 newspaper notice: Dr. Marta Kowalski, appointed to the county hospital.
The essay had no legal value. Nadia scanned it anyway, and then the box beside it, and the one beside that. She worked until morning, understanding that a city’s memory is made not only of deeds and ledgers, but of hopes written down by children.
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Free Grade 10 English worksheet (Common Core RL.9-10.1): read "The Archivist" and answer questions about key details, characters and theme. Skill: Key ideas and details in literature. Level: Grade 10 — also suits Year 11 (UK).
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Key ideas and details in literature.
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