My Superpowers

What type of story is "My Superpowers"?

• Personal Narrative
• historical fiction
• myth
• science fiction

Which of the following words describes the setting?

• summer
• Atlanta, Georgia
• in the future
• Chicago, Illinois

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

What type of figurative language is this sentence: "...when the temperature was so low I felt my eyeballs cracking..."

• simile
• personification
• hyperbole
• onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

What does the author do when he describes Vernon? "The biggest one was a big ugly kid named Vernon Manteuffel."

• personification
• characterization
• giving the point of view
• telling us the theme

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RI.6.6

CCSS.RI.6.9

CCSS.RL.7.6

Whose point of view is this story told?

• the author, Dan Greenburg
• Vernon Manteuffel
• Ann Cohn
• An outsider

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.1.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

A bully named Vernon picks on our narrator and takes his Chicago Cubs cap.  What is this an example of?

• conflict
• theme
• setting
• climax

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.2.10

CCSS.RL.2.2

CCSS.RL.2.3

CCSS.RL.4.4

How did Greenburg resolve the incident with the bully later in his life?

• he wrote a song about him
• he stole his girlfriend
• he scared him away
• he made fun of the bully in the books that he wrote.

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RI.6.3

CCSS.RI.7.3

CCSS.RI.8.3

What type of conflict is this? "Winters in Chicago are so cold, that frost forms leafy patterns on your bedroom window."

• Man vs. nature

• Man vs. Man

• Man vs. Society

• Man vs. self

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

Everyone of us has some type of superpowers or strengths inside of us.  We just have to discover them, and use them. This statement describes the ___________ of the story.

• narrator
• plot
• theme
• conflict

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.2

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.5.9

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

How did the author grab the reader's attention at the very beginning of the story?

• He asked the reader a question.
• He made a shocking statement.
• He told the reader an interesting fact.
• He wanted the reader to imagine.

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RI.6.6

CCSS.RI.6.9

CCSS.RI.7.6