The Taste of Watermelon

What is the title of the short story?

• Tasty Watermelon

• The Taste of Watermelon

• Watermelon Spoiling on the Vine

• Seedless Watermelons

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.9

CCSS.RI.11-12.9

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CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

What point of view is the story told from?

• View point

• In the first-person point of view, the person telling the story is a character. It uses the pronouns “I”, “me” or “myself” to tell the events of the story.

• A second person point of view allows you, the reader, to experience the story through a "you" perspective.

• A third-person narrator tells a story that is happening to other people. It uses the pronouns “he”, “she” or “they”.

• None of the above

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A character is a person, or sometimes even an animal, who takes part in the action of a short story or other literary work. Who are the TWO main characters in the story?

• Willadean

• Watermelon

• Narrator

• Mr. Wills

• Fredrick

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CCSS.RL.2.10

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The setting of a short story is the time and place in which it happens. Name the THREE main settings of the story.

• Park

• Creek

• Beach

• Watermelon field

• Mr Wills's farm

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CCSS.RL.2.10

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In what season does the story take place?

• Winter

• Autumn

• Summer

• Fall

• Spring

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

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What is the moral or lesson you learned from the story?

• Take responsibility for your actions and face the consequences

• Friends can be loyal

• The importance of honesty

• Girlfriends get you in trouble

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.9

CCSS.RI.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

The narrator uses what literary device when he says, “It took about a hundred years to push that melon out of the field”? What device is used?

• Metaphor

• Smile

• Hyperbole

• Simile

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

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CCSS.RL.7.3

What literary device is used when the narrator is crawling across the field towards the watermelon?

• Exposition

• Climax

• Rising Action

• Resolution

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

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CCSS.RL.9-10.5

What was the farmer's reaction when he discovered his watermelon had been stolen?

• He cried

• He scolded his daughter and his wife

• He destroyed all the other melons in the field

• He planted another field of melons

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CCSS.RI.11-12.3

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What did the farmer intend to do with the prized watermelon before it was stolen?

• Feed it to his sick wife to make her better

• Take it to the local farmer's show to win a prize for the biggest melon

• Share it with the local community

• Give it to his wife and she was going to distribute it to the community.

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CCSS.RI.11-12.3

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