CLKA Unit 1 Lessons 7-10

1. Based on the passage, what was Jennifer Lou's point of view about being Chinese at the start of seventh grade?

• She was okay with not having a middle name.

• She did not have an opinion about not having a middle name.

• She loved not having a middle name because it made her unique.

• She felt like she did not fit in because she did not have a middle name.

2. How did Jennifer's point of view about being Chinese connect to her point of view about not having a middle name?

• There is no connection between her being Chinese and not having a middle name.

• She felt happy being Chinese, so she left her name like it was.

• She felt like an outsider being Chinese, so she made up a middle name that she thought was very white.

• She felt like she did not belong because she was Chinese, so she gave herself a Chinese middle name.

3. What is the tone of this passage?

• frightened

• sarcastic

• scientific

• nervous

4. What is the tone of this passage?

• frightened

• sarcastic

• serious

• nervous

5. What is the tone of this passage?

• confident

• hopeless

• calm

• nervous

6. The story has been shuffled below. When put in the correct sequence, which sentence would go first?

• After two weeks, I still only knew about ten new words.

• Now I just try to learn one new word every day.

• In order to accomplish this, I began spending a half hour every morning reading the dictionary.

• Last year, I decided to memorize the definition of every single word in the dictionary.

• Then my uncle reminded me the whole point of a dictionary is that you don't need to memorize the definition of every single word.

7. The story has been shuffled below. When put in the correct sequence, which sentence would go last?

• After two weeks, I still only knew about ten new words.

• Now I just try to learn one new word every day.

• In order to accomplish this, I began spending a half hour every morning reading the dictionary.

• Last year, I decided to memorize the definition of every single word in the dictionary.

• Then my uncle reminded me the whole point of a dictionary is that you don't need to memorize the definition of every single word.

8. The snow was a blanket covering the yard.

• simile

• metaphor

9. Life is a stage, and we are all actors.

• simile

• metaphor

10. Annabelle's room looked like it was hit by a hurricane.

• simile

• metaphor