FRIDAY READING CHECK Expository/Poetry

What is the meaning of the word lively in paragraph 1?

• Haunting and fearsome

• Complicated and long

• Full of energy and movement

• Dull and slow

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CCSS.RI.2.4

CCSS.RI.3.4

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According to the selection, in paragraph 5, who might wear a macaroni?

• A fancy gentleman

• A soldier in the British army

• A wife of a soldier

• A soldier in the American army

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CCSS.RI.3.2

CCSS.RI.4.2

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Which sentence from the selection best explains why a person would not want to be called a Yankee Doodle?

• The words are fun and easy to remember.

• A doodle was a foolish or uneducated man.

• A macaroni was a silly kind of hat two hundred years ago.

• This little song has an interesting history.

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CCSS.RI.3.2

CCSS.RI.4.2

CCSS.RL.2.2

CCSS.RL.3.2

CCSS.RL.4.2

The image of the marching band in paragraph 1 best supports which idea from the selection?

• Yankee Doodle is often sung by children.

• Yankee Doodle is a sad, slow tun best known by soldiers.

• The American colonists did not like King George.

• American soldiers played Yankee Doodle in battle as a challenge to the British soldiers.

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CCSS.RI.3.7

CCSS.RI.4.7

CCSS.RL.2.7

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3.12Fig19D

From the text, the reader can tell that the author intends to --

• teach children all of the words to Yankee Doodle

• make fun of British songs

• tell the history of a popular song

• remind children of a difficult time in American history

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CCSS.RI.2.6

CCSS.RI.3.6

CCSS.RL.3.6

CCSS.RL.4.6

CCSS.RL.5.6

The American soldiers played Yankee Doodle at the British surrender in order to --

• show respect to the British army

• teach the British soldiers the words to the song

• tease the British army

• entertain the British army with a fun song

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CCSS.RI.2.2

CCSS.RI.3.2

CCSS.RL.2.2

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3.6A

Read these lyrics to Yankee Doodle.

Yankee Doodle went to town

A-riding on a pony,

Stuck a feather in his cap

And called it macaroni.

The reader can tell that Yankee Doodle --

• probably looks foolish and silly

• is about to ride into battle

• probably looks like a British soldier

• is frightened of the British soldiers

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CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.3.4

CCSS.RL.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.4.5

Look at the diagram of Cause and Effect...

Cause: The American colonists beat the British army.

Effect:____________________________________________________

Which sentence best completes the diagram?

• King George sent an army of British soldiers on ships across the Atlantic Ocean.

• The American colonists did not want King George to be their ruler.

• The British soldiers celebrated.

• The British soldiers surrendered.

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CCSS.RI.3.3

CCSS.RI.4.3

CCSS.RI.5.3

CCSS.RI.6.3

CCSS.RI.7.3

QUESTIONS for the poem "SICK" start now....

1.Which word is a synonym for wrenched?

• fixed

• injured

• not painful

• straight

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CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.3.4

CCSS.RL.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.4.5

3.6Fig19D

Read line 26.

My temperature is one-o-eight.

What is the speaker trying to say?

• The speaker is sick with a high fever.

• The speaker needs medicine to get better soon.

• The speaker wants to go to school.

• The speaker's house is very cold.

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3