Predators Poem by Linda Hogan

What does "cultivate" mean?

• To belong to a group

• To acquire or develop a quality or skill

• To count numbers

• To prepare land for crops

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CCSS.L.6.4A

CCSS.L.6.4B

CCSS.RI.6.4

What does "wild" mean?

• An animal who is a pet

• An animal who is angry

• An animal that is untamed, feral, or uncontrollable

• An animal who runs free (like in Africa)

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CCSS.L.6.4A

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

What does "domesticated" mean?

• An animal that lives in a zoo

• An animal who is wild and runs free

• An animal who does housework

• An animal that is tame and kept as a pet or on a farm

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CCSS.L.6.4A

What is a group of lines in a poem called?

• line

• stanza

• line break

• stanza break

Choose the correct word to complete the sentence.

A house cat is considered a ____________________ animal, while a lion is not.

• domineering

• predominant

• domesticated

• domicile

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CCSS.L.6.4A

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

Which creatures in “Predators” are domesticated?

Choose TWO options.

• the speaker

• the feline

• the vixen

• the herbs

• the sun

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CCSS.RL.6.1

When the speaker in “Predators” says, “In sun the fox / bows to my feline and her good / dog friends who rule this land,” what does she mean?

• The fox feels embarrassed when it sees the pets.

• The fox understands that the cat and dogs know best.

• The fox does not approach when the cat and dogs are

  around.

• The fox wants to hunt the other animals that live on the

  property.

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CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RL.6.1

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.6.4

What is the “bevy of vixen” doing at the end of “Predators”?

• bowing to the domesticated animals

• rumning back into the wild woods

• running away from the dogs

• eating a small mammal

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CCSS.RL.6.1

CCSS.W.6.9A

Which of the following people would be most likely to cultivate land? Base your answer on the meaning of cultivate.

• a farmer

• an inspector

• an architect

• a real estate agent

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CCSS.L.6.4A

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

The final stanza in “Predators” reads as follows:

feed on a much smaller body

not the cat’s … But it could be.

What is true of this stanza?

• It is far shorter

  than the other stanzas.

• It is made up of

  several separate sentences.

• It has a

  different topic from the other stanzas.

• It is spaced

  differently from the other stanzas.

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CCSS.RL.6.1

CCSS.RL.6.5