"Tutors Teach Seniors New High-Tech Tricks"

Look back at your chart/the answer key for Analyze Craft & Structure (page 67). How do the teens benefit from the tech program?

• They gain impatience, cruelty, self-doubt, forgiveness.

• They gain frustration, confusion, struggle, and indecisiveness.

• They gain patience, sympathy, understanding, confidence.

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CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RI. 9-10.9

CCSS.RL.5.2

At the end of the text, the author explains that some teens have developed and maintained friendships with their seniors via Facebook. Based on this detail and the overall tone of the article, how would you describe the author's opinion of TECH?

• The author thinks that the program is creative.

• The author believes the program is helpful.

• The author does not think that the program is effective.

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CCSS.RI.7.6

CCSS.RI.7.9

CCSS.RI.8.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

Which of the following is an example of how teens are trained in sensitivity?

• wearing goggles to help them read

• wearing goggles to help them understand vision impairments

• wearing a mask to demonstrate how hard it is to talk with something covering their mouths

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CCSS.RI.1.1

CCSS.RI.2.1

CCSS.RI.3.1

CCSS.RL.2.1

CCSS.RL.3.1

Review all three concept vocab words, their definitions on page 64, and how they are used on slides 4-5 of your "Tutors Teach Seniors" Materials Slideshow. Which scenario shows that someone is struggling?

• having a difficult time completing homework

• being upset by the amount of work

• easily completing the work on time

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CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Looking back at the text, Pamela Norr says that she turned to her teenage kids when trying to help her parents with tech problems. What main reason or central idea does this detail support?

• Many teens know a lot about computer technology.

• Teens need to build relationships with the elderly community.

• Some teens are in the market for after school jobs.

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CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RI.7.2

CCSS.RI.8.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RI.6.2

Seniors want to stay connected to their families via technology. Which quote best supports this idea?

• "He's been surprised to have to explain email..."

• "...many seniors had been given cameras by their children."

• "'My kids were not returning calls...They are so knowledgeable about texting and email, so I needed to get to know how...'"

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CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.2.6

Which of the following statements best represent the main or central idea of the article (select all that apply)?

• Students who love tech are taking classes to learn how to help seniors to love tech.

• Teens are trained to help teach seniors how to use technology.

• Norr created TECH - Teenager Elder Computer Help.

• Around Christmas time, many people are trying to figure out how to use their new technological gifts.

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CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RI.7.2

CCSS.RI.8.2

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

What details provide the best evidence to support the additional main/central idea that the sensitivity training is important in order for the teens to understand the seniors and for the program to be fully successful? Select all that apply.

• "At Pace University in New York, college students who tutor seniors in local retirement homes are prepped with sensitivity training."

• “'They get to feel what it’s like to be 70, 80, 90 years old...'”

• "High school students studying computer tech or involved with the National Honor Society sign up to teach local senior citizens..."

• “'They’ll say something a hundred times because they’ve worn cotton balls or earplugs in their ear...'”

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CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RI.7.2

CCSS.RI.8.2

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RI.6.2

When added to a verb, the suffix -ment creates a noun (see page 66). When added to the word amuse (definition: to entertain, cause to find something funny), -ment gives what definition to the word amusement?

• the reason for finding something funny

• the end of an argument

• the result of entertaining

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CCSS.L.2.4B

CCSS.L.2.4C

CCSS.L.3.2E

Look back at page 68 in your workbook and slides 10-12 in your "Tutors Teach Seniors" Materials Slideshow. Then, correctly identify the coordinating conjunction and the subordinating conjunction in the following sentence. Even though they were tired, Mrs. Adams annotated the text, and Ms. Cecil read the text aloud.

• even though = coordinating ; and = subordinating

• and = coordinating ; even though = subordinating

• were = coordinating ; read = subordinating

• read = coordinating ; were = subordinating

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CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.3.3C

CCSS.RF.3.3D

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A