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Wednesday Wars April

Authored by Lauren Mays

English

6th - 8th Grade

CCSS covered

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Wednesday  Wars April
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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

President Johnson's announcement on television was...

the Vietnam war was over.
he was not running for reelection.
more troops were being sent to Vietnam.
he was running for reelection.

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.1

CCSS.RI.6.1

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Holling says he and Meryl Lee would look at one another and know what the other was thinking, even though they wouldn't say it.  He compared it to...

Romeo and Juliet
Macbeth and Macduff
Julius Caesar and Mark Antony
Jim Hawkins and Captain Flint

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.9

CCSS.RI.7.7

CCSS.RL.7.7

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.8.7

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What Shakespeare play did Holling read in April?

none
Taming of the Shrew
Hamlet
Much Ado about Nothing

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.9

CCSS.RI.9-10.9

CCSS.RI.K.6

CCSS.RL.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Mr. Hoodhood looked grim and said, "We are coming apart."  Why?

He was talking about the US because Martin Luther King was killed.
He thought the country would fall because Walter Cronkite retired.
He meant the Hoodhood family was falling apart because Holling's sister refused to come out of her room.
He referred to his company losing money over the junior high building project.

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

At the baseball game, Mrs. Baker becomes a celebrity herself.  How?

She caught a foul ball.
The players recognize her as an Olympic runner.
She was chosen to throw out the first pitch.
She saved Holling when a bat flew out of a batter's hand.

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What was the issue of the argument between Mr. Hoodhood and his daughter?

She wanted to go to college.
She wanted a car.
She wanted to borrow money.
Her grades in school were poor.

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What news had improved Mrs. Baker's mood?

The American troops were marching to find missing American soldiers. 
Meryl Lee is moving. 
Holling is running cross-country. 
Mr. Guareschi was gone.

Tags

CCSS.RI.2.1

CCSS.RI.3.1

CCSS.RL.1.1

CCSS.RL.2.1

CCSS.RL.3.1

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