"A Worn Path"

What is the name of the old woman in the story?

• Alabama
• Phoenix
• Mary Ellen

Which of the following could represent a trial or difficulty on her journey?

• thorn bushes
• crossing the river on a log
• the white man with a gun
• All of the above

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CCSS.RL.1.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

Where is she going? 

• Jackson
• Hattiesburg
• Natchez

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

What does she mistake the scarecrow for?

• A dancing man
• A dead man
• A dancing woman

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CCSS.RI.1.1

CCSS.RI.1.4

CCSS.RI.2.1

CCSS.RI.3.1

CCSS.RI.K.4

Why did she fall over into the ditch? 

• A pig startled her
• A dog startled her
• the white man startled her

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CCSS.RF.5.4C

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.K.2

How much money does Phoenix have by the end of the story? 

• 10 cents
• 20 cents
• a dollar

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CCSS.RL.2.3

CCSS.RL.3.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

What is she going into town for? 

• medicine for her husband
• medicine for herself
• medicine for her grandson

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CCSS.RI.1.1

CCSS.RI.1.4

CCSS.RI.K.4

CCSS.RL.3.1

CCSS.RL.K.1

how do we know that she has made this trip before? Choose the quote that best supports that idea.

• "Please, missy, will you lace up my shoe?"
• She passed through the old cotton and went into a field of dead corn.
• It took awhile to get by him, back in the summer.

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CCSS.RI.2.4

CCSS.RI.4.1

CCSS.RI.5.1

CCSS.RI.7.1

CCSS.RL.5.2

how does she intend to spend the money she has? 

• on a windmill for the child
• on a new pair of shoes
• on her medicine

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CCSS.RL.1.9

CCSS.RL.3.6

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.K.9

Phoenix is described as moving  "with the balanced heaviness and lightness of the pendulum in a grandfather clock." What could this symbolize?

• death
• age (she is very old)
• time (her time is running low)

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CCSS.RI.5.1

CCSS.RI.7.1

CCSS.RI.9-10.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.1