How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin

What is the meaning of parsee?

• a bug

• A person from Persia

• to eat

• a funny clown

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CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

Where does the parsee hid while the rhinoceros is eating his cake?

• in the woods

• behind a wall

• In a palm tree

• in the ocean

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CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.4.5

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.4

How does the Parsee feel about the rhinoceros taking his cake?

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CCSS.RL.4.10

CCSS.RL.4.6

CCSS.RL.5.10

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.10

How long did it take for there be a heat wave in the Red Sea?

• 2 minutes

• a month

• 30 years

• 5 weeks

Once upon a time, on an uninhabited island on the shore of the Red Sea, lived a Parsee.

What is the meaning of uninhabited?

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CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

Which one is a picture of a Rhinoceros?

• 
• 
• 
• 

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CCSS.RF.1.2A

CCSS.RF.2.3A

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.K.1D

CCSS.RF.K.2A

What is the theme of this story, How the Rhinoceros got his Skin?"

• Politeness is a virtue

• Bad behavior has consequences

• Revenge is never right

• It’s best to plan ahead

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CCSS.RL.4.2

CCSS.RL.4.9

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.5.9

CCSS.RL.6.2

Which excerpt from the passage supports the answer to question 7? What is the theme of this story?

• One day he took flour and water and currants and plums and sugar and things, and made himself one cake.

• In those days the Rhinoceros's skin fitted him quite tight.

• And the Rhinoceros spiked that cake on the horn of his nose, and he ate it, and went away, waving his tail.

• Them that takes cakes/ Which the Parsee-man bakes/Makes dreadful mistakes.

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CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.4.5

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.4

Using context clues to determine the meaning of the highlighted word in the sentence below.

He waddled straight into the water and blew bubbles through his nose, and leaving his skin on the beach.

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CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.4

Read the following excerpt from the passage.

And the Rhinoceros...spiked that cake on the horn of his nose, and he ate it, and he went away, waving his tail

Based on this excerpt, what can you tell about the Rhinoceros’s character?

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CCSS.RI.6.10

CCSS.RL.4.10

CCSS.RL.5.10

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.10