You Can't Climb a Cactus

What is one detail about the main character, Erica?

• She lives in Arizona

• She loves plants and bugs

• She loves dogs

• She lives with her grandpa

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CCSS.RL.2.1

What is the definition of a setting?

• Disneyland

• Realistic Fiction

• The time or place a story happens

• The people in the story

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CCSS.RL.2.1

CCSS.RL.2.7

What are characters?

• The people in the story

• Where the story takes place

• What happens in the story

• The problem in the story

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CCSS.RL.2.1

What is a plot?

• The conclusion

• What happens in a story

• When the characters talk to each other

• She could not climb a cactus

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CCSS.RL.2.1

CCSS.RL.2.7

What is realistic fiction?

• A poem

• A fake story

• A fake story that could happen in real life

• A mystery about talking animals

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CCSS.RI.2.1

CCSS.RI.2.6

CCSS.RL.2.1

What is the problem in the story, "You Can't Climb a Cactus" ?

• Erica wants to go to the Seattle Nature Center and her parents want to go to Arizona

• Her parents want to stay in Seattle for Spring Break

• Her grandpa works at the Nature Center in Arizona

• You can't climb a cactus

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CCSS.RL.2.1

CCSS.RL.2.7

How does Erica feel when she finds out her grandpa works at the Desert Nature Center?

• Sad and worried

• Nervous

• Happy and excited

• Embarrassed

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CCSS.RL.2.1

CCSS.RL.2.3

What happened when the tour guide left the group to answer her phone?

• Too many people were on the tour

• The tour guide went to lunch

• Erica got lost

• Erica took over the tour

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CCSS.RL.2.1

CCSS.RL.2.3

What did Erica do during her week in Arizona?

• She got a cactus as a gift from the tour guide

• She returned to the Nature Center each day to help guide tours

• She tried to match the flowers with the pictures in her book

• She flew back to Seattle early since she was homesick.

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CCSS.RI.2.1

CCSS.RL.2.1

CCSS.SL.2.2

How did Erica grow and change from visiting a new place?

• She helped many kids find their way around the nature center

• At the beginning she didn't want to go to Arizona, and at the end she thought it was the best vacation ever.

• She loved seeing the javalina's on the side of the road in Arizona

• She eventually learned how to climb a cactus.

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CCSS.RL.2.1

CCSS.RL.2.3