Boot Camp week 3 day 4

Read this Scene 2 line 14 from the play.

[EMPEROR: "How can such a plain-looking bird sing so beautifully?"]

What is the most likely purpose of this line?

• To create suspense about what the emperor will do next

• To set a tone of bewilderment

• To resolve the emperor’s problem

• To foreshadow an event that will change the emperor’s perspective

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

What causes the emperor to realize he made a mistake?

• The mechanical nightingale puts him to sleep.

• The mechanical nightingale can no longer make music.

• The real nightingale leaves the palace.

• The real nightingale grants the emperor forgiveness.

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.2

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.5.9

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

Read this line from the play. What is the most likely purpose of this line?

[My friend! Have you really come back? [Smiles.] I feel stronger already. Listening to you sing gives me the vigor of a thousand healthy men!]

• To let the audience know the king will die soon.

• To let the audience know that the last request of the king is granted.

• To let the audience know the king will recover and continue to rule the kingdom.

• To let the audience know the king will never die.

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.10

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.6.10

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.7