Seedfolks Review

What words best describes the tone of Seedfolks?

• humorous and lighthearted

• serious and hopeful

• serious and hopeless

• critical and doubtful

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CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.L.6.5C

In the beginning of the story (chapter one), the garden is created as

• a method to connect people

• a way to deal with grief

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CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.6.1

What does Ana's assumption that Kim is doing something illegal tell the reader about the type of neighborhood she lives in?

• The neighborhood is poor, neglected, and crime ridden.

• People in this neighborhood do not wish to know each other

• The neighborhood is full of community leaders

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CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.6.1

Gonzalo says, "The older you are, the younger you get when you move to the United States." Based on his story, what does he mean by this?

• People in the U.S. treat old people from other countries as babies by trying to do everything for them.

• It's harder to learn new things when you are older, which makes you more helpless in a new country than younger people.

• When people from other cultures come the U.S. they often forget how to do things.

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CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.6.1

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RI.6.2

CCSS.RI.6.1

Which of the following are themes from Seedfolks? Choose 3.

• We should all respect each other, regardless of race or ethnicity.

• One small act can make a big, positive change.

• A neighborhood will not change, no matter what you do.

• Change is impossible

• Be kind to others because you never know what struggles they face.

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CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.6.5

Which are examples of similes? Choose 2.

• The smell's enough to turn up a crocodile's nose, especially in the summer.

• God, who made Eden, also wrecked the Tower of Babel, by destroying people.

• As still as a cat, behind that lace curtain, there was her face, staring down a the sign.

• It seemed to me that we were in truth in Paradise, a small Garden of Eden.

• He'd drive up in a cab, slam on the brakes like the Pope just stepped in front of him, run through our squash, cut a bunch of lettuce, and run back with it in a bucket of water.

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CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.L.6.5A

How does Leona finally solve the problem of trash dumped in the garden?

• She takes garbage with her when she goes to meet with authorities at the Public Health Department.

• She creates a contest to see who can come up with the best idea, and she offers a prize to the winner.

• She organizes several people in the neighborhood to clean it up and haul it off to the city dump.

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CCSS.RI.6.2

CCSS.RI.6.3

How does Royce end up helping the gardeners?

• He keeps the trash hauled away from the garden.

• He puts the rain in barrels out when it rains.

• He waters when people are sick and makes repairs.

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CCSS.RL.6.1

CCSS.W.6.9A

Why does Sam compare the garden to Paradise and then to the Tower of Babel?

• There are many beautiful flowers in the garden, but then they died.

• It looked nice except for the trash that towered above everything in the center of the garden.

• People were brought together by the garden, but eventually began dividing it with fences and signs and different sections of the garden.

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CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.6.1

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.6.5

What is the importance of Virgil of the locket Virgil finds?

• The belonged to his mother, who passed away a few years ago.

• He thinks it is beautiful and wears it.

• He sees similarity to the goddess of crops and thinks that perhaps the little girl could help with his father's lettuce.

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CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.6.1

CCSS.W.6.9A