poff reading SOL review #7

COVID-19 is caused by a coronavirus called SARS-CoV-2. Older adults and people who have severe underlying medical conditions like heart or lung disease or diabetes seem to be at higher risk for developing more serious complications from COVID-19 illness.

What causes COVID-19?

• coughing

• sneezing

• a coronavirus called SARS-CoV-2

• corona

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CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.8.3

CCSS.RI.9-10.3

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

COVID-19 is caused by a coronavirus called SARS-CoV-2. Older adults and people who have severe underlying medical conditions like heart or lung disease or diabetes seem to be at higher risk for developing more serious complications from COVID-19 illness.

What is the best definition of underlying?

• severe

• harsh

• hidden but important

• explicit

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CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

In his travels, Marco Polo believed he stumbled across unicorns. He wrote, “They are very ugly brutes to look at. They are not at all such as we describe unicorns.” That’s because they were actually rhinoceroses.

What is ironic about this?

• Marco Polo wasn't actually from India.

• Marco Polo described the unicorns as ugly, but they were actually rhinoceroses.

• Many people find rhinoceroses beautiful.

• The first voyage to find unicorns ironically occurred on Easter Sunday.

The legend that unicorn horns could counteract poison and purify water was bad news for narwhal populations, as the single tooth protruding from the front of the whale’s head made for a popular counterfeit. The Danes even had a throne made of narwhal horns.

What is a narwhal?

• a type of fish

• a seahorse with a horn

• the oldest unicorn

• a type of whale

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.2

CCSS.RI.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

When an author interrupts the chronological sequence of a story by inserting past events. 

• flashback
• foreshadowing
• flashshadowing
• foreback

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

Where a writer/narrator gives an advance hint of what is going to happen later on in the story. Any event, action, dialogue or thought that gives a clue to what is going to happen.

• irony
• flashback
• foreshadowing
• theme

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

She read for 20 minutes each night; therefore, her vocabulary comprehension increased significantly.  What organizational pattern is this statement an example of?

• compare and contrast
• cause and effect
• enumeration
• chronological

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CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

Floods can cause tremendous damage.  They can ruin houses, roads and buildings. Floods can take down trees and cause mudslides. It often leaves mud, sand and debris behind.  It can take months to clean up after a flood.
 What is the main idea?

• Floods can cause a lot of damage.
• Floods cause mudslides.
• Floods damage houses and roads. 

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.2

CCSS.RI.11-12.2

CCSS.RI.8.2

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

McDonald's is an inexpensive meal. If you change the word inexpensive to cheap, the word now has a ____ connotation.

• positive
• negative

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CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Tenochtitlán 

The ancient city of Tenochtitlán in Mexico was the capital of the Aztec Empire. The city was built on a five-square-mile island surrounded by Lake Texcoco and connected to the mainland by three man-made causeways.  

 

Tenochtitlán was one of the most advanced cities of its time. The streets were laid out in a grid pattern. Many of these streets were canals in which inhabitants traveled by canoe. Sophisticated aqueducts brought fresh water into the city. Barges collected waste, which was then turned into fertilizer. Floating gardens along the island’s shoreline supplied not only beauty but extra space for growing food. In 1500, the city’s population reached 300,000, making it larger than any city in Europe.

This passage can BEST be described as--

 

• fiction

• biographical

• non-fiction

• autobiographical

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CCSS.RL.8.9