The Banana Tree

What type of figurative language is in these lines:

His shirt was fluttering from his back like a boat sail.

• Simile

• Personification

• Metaphor

• foreshadowing

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CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

The setting of The Banana Tree is

• The Titanic

• Jamaica

• Greece

• Coconuts

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CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

Who are the main characters in the story?

• A boy and his mom

• A boy and his father

• A tree and a boy

• A tree and a boy

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CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

What is the internal struggle or problem in the story?

• The boy is mad at his father because he doesn't have any shoes.

• The father is scared of the hurricane and can't protect his family.

• The mother is afraid of the storm because she is pregnant.

• The father is disappointed in his son because he wants to play cricket.

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CCSS.RL.4.9

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.5.9

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

What is the external struggle or conflict of the story?

• The mother is afraid that the hurricane will destroy their kitchen.

• The boy is afraid that the hurricane will destroy his banana tree.

• The townspeople are afraid the hurricane will destroy the schoolroom.

• The father is afraid that the hurricane will destroy their house.

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CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

What is the resolution of the story?

• The boy saves the banana tree from falling down.

• The father realizes that it is his fault that his boy ran out into the hurricane.

• The townspeople learn how to take care of themselves during a tragedy.

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CCSS.RL.2.10

CCSS.RL.2.2

CCSS.RL.2.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.4.4

Why is the banana tree so important to the boy?

• He was going to sell the bananas to buy shoes.

• He loves bananas.

• He liked to sit under it and read.

• Trees are his favorite.

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CCSS.RI.6.1

CCSS.RI.7.1

CCSS.RL.6.1

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

Why hasn't Gustus been able to sell any bananas to buy shoes?

• His dad doesn't let him sell them.

• Nobody likes the bananas from his tree.

• The bananas have been too heavy for the tree, and they fall.

• The bananas are all too brown.

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CCSS.RF.5.4C

CCSS.RI.6.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.6.1

CCSS.RL.6.2

Which lines form the story show the intensity of the hurricane?

• He could hardly recognize his yard.

• But the wind outside mocked viciously. It screamed. It whistled. It smashed everywhere up.

• Muffled cries, and the sound of blowing noses, now mixed with the singing.

• With trembling fingers he tied up the remnants of his shirt.

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CCSS.RF.5.4C

CCSS.RI.6.1

CCSS.RL.6.1

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

What is the definition of simile?

• An expression that compares two unlike things using the words like and as.
• A comparison of two things  that are basically not alike but have some qualities in common.
• Words and phrases that appeal to a reader's five senses.
• Words that have the same sound at the beginning.

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3