Dirk the Protector and An American Childhood Review

The author of this story is

• Charles Dickens

• Gary Paulsen

• Olaf Jenson

• Michael Hudgeons

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CCSS.RI.11-12.9

CCSS.RI.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.K.6

Dirk the Protector is

• realistic fiction

• science fiction

• memoir

• biography

If the EFFECT is young Paulsen stops being bullied, the CAUSE is.....

• He takes all back roads to get home

• He works at the bowling alley

• He goes to the Library to warm up

• Dirk has become his body guard

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CCSS.RI.4.3

CCSS.RI.5.3

CCSS.RI.6.3

CCSS.RI.7.3

CCSS.RI.8.3

The ________kitten was so weak and small that it was not expected to survive.

• conventional

• puny

• decoy

• cohort

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CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

forerunner

• came after

• came later

• came before

• speedy person

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CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

The child and her mother were at a(n) ____________________ because neither would give up.

• impasse

• hustle

• decoy

• cohort

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CCSS.L.3.4D

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

Why was Annie able to recall this memory so clearly?

• It was the most exciting and physically demanding thing she has ever done.

• She was forever traumatized by this experience.

• She had to repeat it for her parents and the cops many times.

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CCSS.RI.7.1

CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RI.6.1

CCSS.RI.7.8

Use context clues in the following passage from An American Childhood to choose the correct meaning of the underlined word:

He chased us silently over picket fences, through thorny hedges, between houses, around garbage cans, and across streets. Every time I glanced back, choking for breath, I expected he would have quit.

• fell

• looked quickly

• gasped loudly

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CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

In "An American Childhood" the man stops his car in order to

• A. catch the children who threw the snowballs

• B. teach children how to throw more accurately

• C. join the children having a snowball fight

• D. stop a snowball fight between the children

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CCSS.RI.2.1

CCSS.RI.3.1

CCSS.RL.2.1

CCSS.RL.3.1

CCSS.RI.1.4

In "An American Childhood" the narrator is impressed that the man

• A. forgives her and her friend almost immediately

• B. is playful and understanding of children

• C. uses reasoning to persuade her to stop running

• D. is determined never to give up the chase

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CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.2.6