Wednesday Wars - March

Which reporter did the Hoodhoods watch on the evening news?

• Dan Rather
• Walter Cronkite
• Lee Kowalski
• Charles Vendleri

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

What came down when the bulging ceiling tiles were being replaced?

• shredded paper
• chewed pencils
• part of a black sneaker
• all of these

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CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

A soothsayer tell Julius Caesar to "Beware the ides of March."  What literary device could this be considered?

• alliteration
• compare contrast
• foreshadowing
• onomatopoeia

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

What did the cross country coach call running at the speed of the actual race?

• at tempo
• race pace
• slug speed
• none of these

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

What is the ides of March?

• the March wind
• March 15
• refers to Julius Caesar and soldiers marching home from war
• another name for St Patrick's Day

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CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.7.7

Who did Holling's sister admire?

• her parents
• Mickey Mantle
• Robert Kennedy
• Coach Quantrini

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Mrs. Baker told Holling, "Look what happened to Julius Caesar when he underestimated those around him."  How did Holling underestimate Mrs. Baker?

• She ran in the Olympics
• Her husband was a war hero
• She fearlessly captured the rats 
• She performed in Shakespeare plays

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CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

Holling thought Shakespeare's plays were all about

• people stabbing each other
• the power of goodness and honesty
• the abundance of love and faithfulness
• the weakness of armies and battles and guns

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

Coach Quantrini told the cross country team they needed "The Big M."  He meant

• motivation
• murder
• muddy conditions
• macaroni.  It provides necessary carbohydrates.

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

"The yellow forsythia branches were weaving themselves together, and the daffodils were playing their trumpets, and the lilacs were...getting all giddy" is an example of which literary device?

• personification
• alliteration
• onomatopoeia
• Shakespeare

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3