Barrio Boy

What makes Ernesto similar to several of his classmates?

• Other students in the class also do not speak English.
• Other students in the class also live in his neighborhood.
• Other students in the class are also from Mexico.
• Other students in the class are also afraid of Miss Ryan.

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CCSS.RI.6.1

CCSS.RI.7.1

CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RI.8.1

In the excerpt from "Barrio Boy", why does Miss Hopley have another boy come to her meeting with Ernesto and his mother?

• Ernesto has gotten into a fight with the other boy.
• The other boy is Ernesto's older brother.
• Ernesto and his mother do not speak English.
• The other boy will take Ernesto to his class.

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CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.2.6

In the excerpt from "Barrio Boy," how does Ernesto learn English?

• He learns once he can say "butterfly."

• He learns because Miss Hopley insists that all students speak English in class.

• He learns because Miss Ryan gives him private lessons in a closet hall off the classroom.

• He learns on the playground, from the other Mexican children in school.

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CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RI.6.2

CCSS.RI.7.2

CCSS.RI.8.2

CCSS.RL.6.2

Why does Ernesto Galarza compare Lincoln School and his school in Mazatlan?

• He wishes to show that he prefers the school he had attended in Mexico.

• He wishes to show he is frightened by the "contraption" that shuts the door.

• He wishes to show that in Mexico the principal of a school is always a man.

• He wishes to show that he feels insecure at a new school in a new country.

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CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

In "Barrio Boy," how does Miss Ryan encourage the students that she tutors privately?

• She praises their accomplishments before the whole class.
• She puts their pictures on the bulletin board in a gold frame.
• She invites the best students to sit next to her at lunch.
• She places gold stars next to their names on a class list.

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CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.2.6

What is most closely the meaning of formidable as it is used in the following paragraph?

Then Miss Hopley did a formidable thing. She stood up. Had she been standing when we entered she would have seemed tall. But rising from her chair she soared. And what she carried up and up with her was a buxom superstructure, firm shoulders, a straight sharp nose, full cheeks slightly molded by a curved line along the nostrils, thin lips that moved like steel springs, and a high forehead topped by hair gathered in a bun. Miss Hopley was not a giant in body but when she mobilized it to a standing position she seemed a match for giants. I decided I liked her.

• frightening

• unexpected

• impressive

• aggressive

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CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

What is the main idea of the passage:

1.The two of us walked south on Fifth Street one morning to the corner of Q Street and turned right. Half of the block was occupied by the Lincoln School. It was a three-story wooden building, with two wings that gave it the shape of a double-T connected by a central hall. It was a new building, painted yellow, with a shingled roof that was not like the red tile of the school in Mazatlán. I noticed other differences, none of them very reassuring.

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• the location of the school

• offer readers an example of the narrator’s quick reflexes

• the comparison description of both schools (Lincoln School and Mazatlan).

• to suggest to the reader the narrator’s fear of authority

What information mainly does the following passage convey (paragraph 12)?

Miss Ryan took me to a seat at the front of the room, into which I shrank—the better to survey her. She was, to skinny, somewhat runty me, of a withering height when she patrolled the class. And when I least expected it, there she was, crouching by my desk, her blond radiant face level with mine, her voice patiently maneuvering me over the awful idiocies of the English language.

• The narrator is anxious in Miss Ryan’s presence.

• Miss Ryan thinks the narrator is an exceptional student.

• Miss Ryan is more than six feet tall.

• The narrator dislikes Miss Ryan trying to explain the “idiocies” of English.

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CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RI.6.1

CCSS.RI.7.1

CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

Which character does the following statement describe?

"... blond radiant face..."

• Manuel

• Matti

• Miss Hopley

• Miss Ryan

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CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

Which character does the following statement describe?

"... a high forehead topped with hair gathered in a bun..."

• Manuel

• Matti

• Miss Hopley

• Miss Ryan

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CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3