
Poetry Collection: Unit 3 Independent Selection
Authored by Cory Ekstrom
English
6th Grade
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
What is the main topic of the poems “All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace” and “Sonnet, without Salmon”?
humans’ relationship to the past
humans’ relationship to the future
humans’ relationship to technology
humans’ relationship to one another
Tags
CCSS.RI.5.7
CCSS.RI.6.7
CCSS.RL.5.7
CCSS.RL.6.9
CCSS.RL.7.7
2.
MULTIPLE SELECT QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
What is the world described in “All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace” like? Choose two options.
Machines are not needed to make people’s lives easier.
Living creatures and electronics live together in peace.
Machines have learned to program each other.
Electronic devices have replaced all plant life.
Human beings do not need to do any work.
Tags
CCSS.RL.6.4
CCSS.RL.7.4
CCSS.RL.7.10
CCSS.RL.7.5
CCSS.RL.5.5
3.
MULTIPLE SELECT QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
What does the reader know about the speaker in “Sonnet, without Salmon”? Choose two options.
He built a large dam.
He is Native American.
He does not like fishing.
He enjoys drinking coffee.
He loved his grandmother.
Tags
CCSS.RL.6.4
CCSS.RL.7.4
CCSS.RL.7.10
CCSS.RL.7.5
CCSS.RL.5.5
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
Use context clues to choose the most likely meaning of eccentric as it is used in this excerpt from “Sonnet, without Salmon.” Here, the speaker is describing his grandmother.
7. She swam wearing all of her clothes, even her shoes. 8. I don’t know if that was a tribal thing to do, or if she was just eccentric.
odd
cold
happy
nervous
Tags
CCSS.RL.6.4
CCSS.RL.7.4
CCSS.RI.6.4
CCSS.RI.5.4
CCSS.RL.5.1
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
The following question has two parts. Answer Part A first, and then Part B.
Part A Read this passage from “Sonnet, without Salmon.”
14. Today, in Seattle, I watched a cute couple at the next table whispering to their cell phones instead of to each other. But, chivalrous, he walked to the self-service coffee bar to get her a cup. Lovely, I thought. She was busy on her phone while he was ten feet away.
What is the most likely meaning of chivalrous as it is used in this passage? Choose the meaning based on context clues.
considerate
cautious
unwilling
independent
Tags
CCSS.RL.6.4
CCSS.RL.7.4
CCSS.RI.6.4
CCSS.RI.5.4
CCSS.RI.7.4
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
Part A Answer: considerate
Part B Which phrase from the passage best supports the answer to Part A?
whispering to their cell phones
to the self-service coffee bar
to get her a cup
busy on her phone
Tags
CCSS.RI.5.1
CCSS.RI.6.1
CCSS.RL.6.1
CCSS.RL.6.2
CCSS.RL.7.2
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
What does the context suggest is the most likely meaning of cybernetic as it is used in these lines from “All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace”?
I like to think (and
the sooner the better!)
of a cybernetic meadow
where mammals and computers
live together in mutually
programming harmony….
related to musical sounds
related to the plants in a meadow
related to the ways that mammals survive in the wilderness
related to the ways that living creatures and machines interact
Tags
CCSS.RL.6.4
CCSS.RL.7.4
CCSS.RI.6.4
CCSS.RL.5.4
CCSS.RI.7.4
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