Reading Review

The poet helps the reader understand how it felt to be on the frontier mainly by --

• Creating vivid images of remoteness

• explaining how land was claimed

• stressing the difficulty of raising a large family

• comparing the advantages and disadvantages of moving to the West.

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CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.5

The poet places the words "no visitors at all" on a line by themselves most likely because the words --

• highlight the speaker's loneliness

• explain why work on the frontier was time-consuming

• describe the speaker's desire not to be distracted from her family

• suggest that pioneers were not friendly or social

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CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

The repetition of the line "endless land...endless sky..."suggest that the speaker --

• Recognizes the infinite possibilities of living on the frontier

• thinks that frontier life is unfair because of its challenges

• feels overwhelmed by the vastness of the surroundings

• appreciates the incredible beauty of the environment

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CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.10

To the speaker's husband, moving west mostly represents --

• uniqueness

• opportunity

• sacrifice

• peacefulness

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CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.5

At the end of the poem, the speaker expresses a felling of

• hope, because she plans to sell the property and return to her hometown

• uncertainty, because she wonders about opportunities for her children

• frustration, because her life has presented her with very few choices

• loss, because she is aware of all she gave up in order to own a large plot of land

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CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

Because the poem is written from the speaker's point of view, the reader is better able to understand --

• When it was that pioneers began to move west

• how pioneers spent their time on the frontier

• where on the frontier pioneers built homes

• what kinds of sacrifices pioneers made by moving west

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CCSS.RL.1.6

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

Read lines 44 and 45 from the poem:

Instead, I hear winds whisper: Free land! You made a choice.

The poet uses personification in these lines to show that the winds --

• are important to frontier life

• seem to taunt the speaker

• serve as a symbol of the speaker's anger

• blow gently and quietly on the frontier

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CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

Which line best communicates the speaker's feelings of regret?

• I schooled the children

• There were so many chores

• and the going was tough

• and I can't help but sigh --

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CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

In paragraph 2, the word rocketing emphasizes Abdul-Jabbar's

• skill

• power

• intensity

• accuracy

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CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

In paragraph 4, why does the author include information about how the Falcons played basketball?

• To educate readers about the Falcons' style of play

• To suggest that the Falcons lacked important athletic skills

• To identify some of the challenges Abdul-Jabbar faced when coaching the Falcons

• To foreshadow Abdul-Jabbaar's feelings about the Falcons' losses

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CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5