INTEGRATED ENGLISH EXAM (I QUARTER)

INTEGRATED ENGLISH EXAM

(I QUARTER)

9º grade

Grandmother Spider Brings the Sun

• A long time ago it is said that half the world had the sun, but the other

  side of the world was very dark. It was so dark that all the animals

  were always bumping into each other and getting lost.

  
  

Multiple Choice

There was a side of the world that has light, but there was other part that was:

• shinning

• wet

• dark

• empty

The Characters

Wolf lived on this side of the world.

“I have an idea,” he said. “I think we should go to the other side of

the world and ask them for a piece of their sun.

Coyote, was another character, he was a trickster because he lies and cheats and steals.

Coyote said: “I think we should sneak over there and just steal a piece.”

Fill in the Blank

Who was the character that had the idea to steal a piece of the sun?

• Then all the animals began asking, “Who is going to go to the other side of the world?

  
  

• “Hi. M-m-m-my name is Possum. I think I can go to the other side of the world. You see, I’ve got these long, sharp claws, and I think I can dig a tunnel. And when I go

  allthe way to the other side of the

  world, I’ll take a piece of the sun and I’ll hide it in my big, bushy tail.”

  
  

• Possum had never seen the sun, so when he popped out on the other side, the light hit his eyes, and he was blinded.

  
  

• Possum struggled over to the sun, took a little piece, and put it inside his big ol’ bushy tail. Possum ran faster and faster and faster and faster. Something started to get hot inside his tail, but Possum kept running, faster and faster.

  
  

  
  

Multiple Choice

What happened to Possum's tail?

• it became shorter

• it became skinny

• he lost his tail

Buzzard

“It’s me, Big Bad Buzzard. I’ll go to the other side of the world and it won’t take me long at all, but I wouldn’t be so dumb as to hide the light in my tail. I’m gonna hide it in my beautiful crown of feathers.”

Buzzard took a little piece of sun. As he came down the tunnel, something started to get

hot on top of his head. Smoke WAS coming from Buzzard’s head.

Wolf looked up and said, “Buzzard! You’re bald!”

Multiple Select

Check descriptions of Buzzard

• has beautiful feathers on his head.

• has long feathers on his tail.

• became bald

• became blinded

Grandmother Spider

Wolf said, “Possum’s burned his tail off and now Buzzard’s bald, and we still don’t have any sun. What are we going to do now?”

Well, this was Grandmother Spider., “I know

I’m old. You don’t have to tell me I’m old. But I want to help my people one more time. I need a piece of clay about so big. Soon she had worked the clay into a little bowl.

She picked up that beautiful clay bowl and disappeared inside the tunnel.

They say it took Grandma Spider a long, long, long, long time to get to the other side of the world.

The Sun Guards were mean-looking monsters. They had fire coming out of their heads, but Grandmother Spider was so tiny that they didn’t even see her. She came back down the tunnel veryslowly. It took her a long, long, long, long time to get to her side of the world.

Multiple Select

How you describe Grandmother Spider

• tinny

• big

• fast

• slow

• intelligent