Mixed Review Stack M

Multiple Choice

1. This question has two parts. First, answer Part A. Then, answer Part B.

Part A

The students’ perspective on science class changed throughout the passage. Select the statement that best describes how their perspective changed.

• At the beginning, the students were nervous to answer the questions in science class, but in the end they participated quietly because they were still afraid. This led to them realizing that you need to have the right answer.

• At the beginning, the students were excited to share their answers during science class, but in the end they realized that the lesson was much more boring than they thought. This led to them asking for a new teacher.

  
  

• At the beginning, the students were bored and uninterested in their science class, but in the end they had fun and used their knowledge to answer their teacher’s questions. This led to them realizing that learning can be fun.

• At the beginning, the students were worried that the substitute teacher in science class would be mean, but in the end they realized that he made science boring. This led to them realizing that the grass was not greener on the other side.

Multiple Choice

Select the statement that describes what caused this change in perspective.

• When Mr. Allen asks the kids to share their best wrong answer, it gets all the students to participate in the lesson and apply their knowledge in a new way.

• When the students avoid Mr. Allen’s gaze, it makes him change the lesson to teach something that the students think is more interesting.

• When Martika says that ice has wings, Mr. Allen realizes that the students need to focus more on science topics and changes his lesson.

• When the whole class laughs at Mr. Allen, they decide to play a different game that will help the students focus on getting the right answer.

Draw

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Multiple Select

The conflict of the passage contributes to the characters valuing the ideas of other people. Select two details from the passage that support this analysis.

• “A few of them looked at each other and shrugged.” (paragraph 4)

• “Ice is made of water particles, too,” declared Miguel.” (paragraph 24)

• “They are less dense,” added Tyler. “Which makes them float!” interrupted Cassie.” (paragraph 29-30)

• “The students avoided Mr. Allen’s gaze.” (paragraph 6)

• “It’s supposed to be a bad answer. What’s your bad answer?”(paragraph 12)

Multiple Select

Select two details that should be included in the summary of the text.

• The students stay quiet when Mr. Allen first asks why some things float.

• Mr. Allen and the students like to look at the clouds and imagine different animals.

• The students laughed when Mr. Allen asked to give the correct answer at the beginning of the lesson.

• Tyler wiggled his fingers in a spooky way when he suggested that ice floats because of ghosts

• After giving so many bad answers, the students used what they had learned to give a good answer.

Multiple Choice

Select the best summary of A Good Bad Answer.

• When asked to answer a question asked by Mr. Allen, the class of students was immediately eager to answer. This led some students to be upset because everyone wanted to share. One student had an idea to share silly answers to make everyone laugh. This helps the reader to learn that it is not always important to be right.

• Mr. Allen asked students to share their guesses for why things float but instead of sharing out, they all sat quietly in his class. He decided to take a different approach by asking them to share bad answers. With this, the students all shared silly ideas which caused them to laugh and have fun. Finally, the class made connections and got a good answer. Like the students, we learn that  we can learn from one another.

• When the class was asked a question by Mr. Allen, they were really quiet and avoided looking at him. They were probably nervous about giving the wrong answer. Sometimes I do this when my teacher asks me questions in class. Then, he asked them to give the wrong answers and that made the lesson more fun for the class. They still got to the good answer at the end. This helps the reader learn that some teachers can be fun.

• Mr. Allen was frustrated with his students because they were not prepared for class. His students felt this frustration and decided to do their best in class that day. All of the students participated, which led them to better understand the lesson that day. Like the students, we learn that it’s important to always try your best.