CALL IT COURAGE: CHAPTERS 1/2

What hurts Mafatu the most at the beginning of the story?

• His father's silence

• His stepmother's scorn

• His step brothers mocking him

• Kana calling him a coward

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CCSS.RL.2.1

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

What is the best theme for chapter one “Flight”?

• The reader learns that Mafatu is the chief's son, and he is not like the others.

• The reader learns Mafatu prefers to make spears and nets because he is afraid of the sea.

• The reader learns that everyone on the island dislikes Mafatu because he can only find friends with a dog a bird.

• The reader learns why Mafatu is afraid of the sea, and Mafatu leaves the island to face his fears.

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.9

Mafatu's people worship courage. Courage is ______________________.

• the ability to solve a problem

• the ability to sail a boat

• the ability to face a danger bravely

• the ability to live alone

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CCSS.RI.4.2

CCSS.RI.5.2

CCSS.RL.4.2

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.6.2

When at last they were cast up on the pinnacle of coral, Mafatu’s mother crawled ashore with scarcely enough strength left to pull her child beyond reach of the sea’s hungry fingers.

What does the word pinnacle mean as it is used in this sentence?

• source

• station

• highpoint

• built

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CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

What type of figurative language is the phrase “the sea’s hungry fingers”?

• simile

• metaphor

• onepomopia

• personification

• idiom

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CCSS.RL.3.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

What job or chore does Mafatu have in Chapter 1?

• fisherman

• sells fresh fish at the market

• helps the women of the village with cooking

• makes spears and nets

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.9

Waves lifted and struck at one another, their crests hissing with spray.

What type of figurative language is being used in this excerpt?

• simile

• metaphor

• onepomopia

• personification

• idiom

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CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.4.5

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.4

Mafatu’s stepmother knew small sympathy for him, and his step brothers treated him with open scorn.

“Listen,” they would mock. “Moana, the sea God, thunders on the reef. He is angry with us all because Mafatu is afraid!”

The boy learned to turn these jibes aside, but his father’s silence shamed him. He tried to overcome his terror of the sea.

What is the meaning of the word jibes as it is used in the text?

• make fun of someone

• encourage someone to do good

• build up someone's spirit

• to be respectful toward someone

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CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.4

Mafatu leaves his island by sailing across a lagoon.

A lagoon is ____________________________.

• shallow body of water connected to a larger body of water

• river

• current in the ocean

• great lake

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CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

In what point of view is this story being told?

• first

• third

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CCSS.RL.1.6

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6