Raymond's Run

Squeaky threatens Rosie and Mary Louise when they

•  become friends with Gretchen
•  make fun of her breathing exercises
•  insist she can't win the race
• ask Raymond about school 

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CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

Which literary device is in this sentence:

Then here comes Mr. Pearson with his clipboard and his cards and pencils and whistles and safety pins and fifty million other things he’s always dropping all over the place with his clumsy self.

• allusion

• simile

• hyperbole

• personification

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CCSS.L.8.5A

CCSS.RL.8.4

Which literary device is in this sentence:

He looks around the park for Gretchen like a periscope in a submarine movie.

• allusion

• simile

• hyperbole

• personification

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CCSS.L.8.5A

CCSS.RL.8.4

Which is the point of view in "Raymond's Run"?

• 1st person

• 3rd person omniscient

• 3rd person limited

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CCSS.RL.8.6

What is the setting of the story?

• Chaska

• Lower East Side of Manhattan

• Harlem, New York City

• Baltimore

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CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Which of the following is the BEST example of external conflict?

• Gretchen is going to try to beat Squeaky in the May Day race.

• Squeaky has to apologize for Raymond when he scares the pigeons.

• Squeaky sees Gretchen is running right along beside her.

• Squeaky and Gretchen have a confrontation when they meet on the sidewalk.

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CCSS.RL.8.3

After Squeaky and Gretchen compete to win the May Day race, the announcers hesitate in calling out the winners. What part of the plot does this describe? 

•  the resolution
•  the conflict
• the rising action
• the climax

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CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.8.3

Is Squeaky a dynamic character or a static character?

• dynamic

• static

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CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.W.8.9A

Which piece of dialogue best demonstrates how protective Squeaky is of Raymond?

• Squeaky says, “That’s right, Fatso. And the next word out of anybody and I’ll be their mother too.”

• Squeaky says, “I always win cause I’m the best.”

• Squeaky says, “You got anything to say to my brother, you say it to me…..”

• Rosie says, “What are you, his mother?”

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CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.8.3

Select the best evidence from the text to support how Squeaky’s perspective of the May Pole dancing differs from her mother’s

• “And I’m smiling to beat the band cause if I’ve lost this race, or if me and Gretchen tied, or even if I’ve won…..”

• “I was once a strawberry in a Hansel and Gretel pageant when I was in nursery school and didn’t have no better sense than to dance on tiptoe with my arms in a circle over my head doing umbrella steps and being a perfect fool just so my mother and father could come dressed up and clap.”

• “... as far as I am concerned, a poor black girl who really can’t afford to buy shoes and a new dress you only wear once a lifetime cause it won’t fit next year.”

• “The biggest thing on the program is the May Pole dancing, which I can do without, thank you, even if my mother thinks it’s a shame I don’t take part and act like a girl for a change.”

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CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.8.6

CCSS.W.8.9A