"My Mother Pieced Quilts"

What figurative language did the author use the most?

• personification

• metaphor

• simile

• hyperbole

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CCSS.L.8.5A

CCSS.RL.8.4

The authors mentions canvases several times. What is she referring to?

• an actual canvas

• the quilts

• the pieces used for the quilt

• a piece of art

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CCSS.L.8.4A

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.8.4

Where was the author born?

• Michigan

• Santa Fe

• Texas

• Arizona

What does the line "you were the river current" say about how the author feels?

• She does not like her mother

• She calls her mother a river current because she has no structure

• She believes her mother is the driving force of the family

• She likes how her mother flows from day to day

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CCSS.L.8.5A

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.8.4

Which text evidence proves the line

"oh mother you plunged me sobbing..."?

• Stretched out they lay/...knotted with love

• galloping along the frayed edges, tucking them in/as you did us at night

• in the evening you sat at your canvas/--our cracked linoleum floor the drawing board

• somber black silk you wore to grandmother's funeral/...into tuberculosis wards

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CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.W.8.9A

What lines help prove the theme of this poem?

• "knotted with love/ the quilts sing one"

• "sewn har and taut to withstand the thrashings of twenty-/five years

• but it was just that every morning I awoke to/these october ripened canvases

• me lounging on your arm/and you staking out the plan

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CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.W.8.9A

What was the original purpose of the quilts?

• as covers to keep warm in winter

• as a story

• to make sure the family holds onto the memories of their past

• to have around the house just in case

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CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RI.8.2

The author uses artillery as a metaphor. Why does she choose this word as her comparison?

your were the caravan master at the reins

driving your thread needle artillery across the

• She believes in it's strength compared to the strength of the quilt

• She believes it is best way to describe her mother

• She is actually talking about a weapon and not using a metaphor

• She believes that the artillery is her mother-powerful

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CCSS.L.8.5A

CCSS.RL.8.4

In the line

sewn hard and taut to withstand the thrashings of twenty-five years

The word taut means:

• weapon

• used with force

• pulled tight

• ready to use

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CCSS.L.8.4A

CCSS.L.8.4B

CCSS.RL.8.4

What does the quilt represent to the author?

• Her life story

• Her parents story before her

• nothing

• memories of her past

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CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.W.8.9A