Context Clues Practice

"She had been with us ever since Jem was born, and I had felt her tyrannical presence as long as I could remember."

• Content behavior

• Characteristic of an absolute ruler

• Loving

• Thinking that you're better than everyone else

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

"Dill had seen Dracula, a revelation that moved Jem to eye him with the beginning of respect."

• thought

• aggressive behavior

• intense realization

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

"Jem condescended to take me to school the first day, a job usually done by one's parents, but Atticus had said Jem would be delighted to show me where my room was."

Based on this sentence, how is Jem related to the narrator?

• He is her father

• He is a stranger

• He is her brother

Tags

CCSS.RL.1.6

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

"I retrieved my plate and finished dinner in the kitchen, thankful, though, that I was spared the humiliation of facing them again."

Which image best depicts humiliation?

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Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RL.1.4

"What Mr. Radley did might seem peculiar to us, but it did not seem peculiar to him."

• strange

• normal

• heartless

Tags

CCSS.L.3.2F

What is a context clue?

• Words that start with the same letter

• Things that are used to describe characters

• Words or phrases that help you find out the meaning of unknown things

• When the author asks questions in the text

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

"So Simon, having forgotten his teacher's dictum on the possession of human chattels, bought three slaves and with their aid established a homestead on the banks of the Alabama River some forty miles above Saint Stephens."

• chains

• property

• humans

• tools

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.4