Life Doesn't Frighten Me Review

From whose point of view is the poem developed?

• Maya Angelou, the author

• a young boy

• a young girl

• the reader

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CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.7.10

Cite the text evidence that best supports the speaker is a young girl.

• "Life doesn't frighten me at all"

• "I can walk the ocean floor"

• "Mean old Mother Goose"

• "Tough guys in a fight / All alone at night"

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CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.7.10

Cite the text evidence that best supports the speaker is a young girl.

• "Life doesn't frighten me at all"

• "I can walk the ocean floor"

• "Tough guys in a fight / All alone at night"

• "That new classroom where / Boys all pull my hair"

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CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.7.10

Determine which phrase refers to a fear of something that is REAL.

• "Noises down the hall"

• "Big ghosts in a cloud"

• "Mean old Mother Goose"

• "Dragons breathing flame"

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CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Determine which phrase refers to a fear of something that is imaginary.

• "Shadows on the wall"

• "Bad dogs barking loud"

• "All alone at night"

• "Dragons breathing flame"

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CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.7.10

Compare and contrast the images in the first two stanzas with the images in stanzas four and six.

• The images in the first two stanzas aren't as frightening as the ones in the fourth and sixth stanzas.

• Many of the images in the first two stanzas are imaginary, whereas the images in the fourth and sixth stanzas are realistic.

• The images in the first two stanzas rhyme, whereas the images in stanzas four and six don't rhyme.

• All of the images in the first two stanzas are realistics, whereas stanzas four and six have imaginary images.

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CCSS.RI.5.7

CCSS.RI.6.7

CCSS.RI.7.7

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.9

Determine the meaning of the phrase "make them shoo."

• make them cry

• make them go away

• make them come closer

• make them laugh

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CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

Reread lines 17-18 ("I won't cry / So they fly"). Infer what they suggest about the speaker.

• The speaker is not scared of the things in the poem.

• The speaker is scared of birds.

• The speaker is too scared to cry.

• The speaker cannot fly.

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CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.5.5

Which of the following best expresses the central idea of Stanza 8?

• The speaker has a special talent to use when the time is right.

• The speaker is afraid of animals.

• The speaker has nightmares and is not getting enough sleep.

• The speaker has a treasure that she keeps hidden from cruel classmates.

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CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RI.6.2

CCSS.RI.7.2

Which lines from the poem best support that she has a special talent to use when she needs it?

• "That new classroom where / Boys all pull my hair"

• "If I'm afraid at all / It's only in my dreams"

• "I've got a magic charm / That I keep up my sleeve,"

• "Don't show me frogs and snakes / And listen for my scream,"

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CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.7.10