Jan. 7_Dietz ELA Lesson_1.02, 1.05 Quiz Reviews

Multiple Choice

TRUE or FALSE:

The author sees his time at Lincoln School positively and thinks other students there did, too.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

Select the excerpt that BEST supports the inference about “Barrio Boy”:

The author sees his time at Lincoln School positively and thinks other students there did, too.

• "During the next few weeks Miss Ryan overcame my fears of tall, energetic teachers as she bent over my desk to help me with a word in the pre-primer."

• "Step by step, she loosened me and my classmates from the safe anchorage of the desks for recitations at the blackboard and consultations at her desk. Frequently she burst into happy announcements to the whole class."

Multiple Choice

Which inference can be made about the author's experience at the Lincoln School in Barrio Boy?

• The teachers and classmates are barriers to learning English and blending into American life.

• The Lincoln School educators are respectful of his heritage while helping him learn how to fit in to his new life in the United States.

• The Lincoln School is an unfriendly place where educators want to force the students to renounce their heritage and adopt the American way of life.

Multiple Choice

Select the excerpt that best supports the inference about “Barrio Boy”:

The Lincoln School educators are respectful of the author’s heritage while helping him learn how to fit in to his new life in the United States.

• "At Lincoln, making us into Americans did not mean scrubbing away what made us originally foreign. The teachers called us as our parents did, or as close as they could pronounce our names in Spanish or Japanese. No one was ever scolded or punished for speaking in his native tongue on the playground."

• "Like Ito and several other first graders who did not know English, I received private lessons from Miss Ryan in the closet, a narrow hall off the classroom with a door at each end. Next to one of these doors Miss Ryan placed a large chair for herself and a small one for me."

Multiple Choice

What is one central idea of Barrio Boy?

• There is nothing wrong with being part of two cultures.

• Kind teachers are few and far between.

• Blending in with others is the most important thing.

• Those in power must be respected and obeyed.

Multiple Choice

Which statement best expresses a viewpoint Ernesto Galarza [the author of the story] conveys in Barrio Boy?

• Young people feel emotions more distinctly and powerfully than adults.

• Becoming truly American means forgetting one's cultural background and traditions.

• Teachers are not as important as family members when it comes to learning new things.

• A helpful, encouraging teacher can make a big difference in a young person's life.

Multiple Choice

What is Ernesto Galarza's purpose for writing "Barrio Boy?"

• He tries to show how important classmates of different ethnic origin can be to an educational experience.

• He wants to reveal a segment of his educational experience and its emotional effects on him as a new U.S. citizen.

• He hopes to show how important female educators are to the emotional experience of a new U.S. citizen.

• He wants the reader to see how his educational experience supported his heritage while introducing him to a new life in the United States.