Teenagers by Pat Mora
Authored by Nancy Hoover
English
6th Grade
CCSS covered
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This quiz focuses on poetry analysis, specifically examining Pat Mora's poem "Teenagers." The content is appropriate for 6th grade students who are developing their skills in literary analysis and poetic interpretation. The questions assess students' ability to identify point of view, analyze specific textual passages for meaning, make inferences based on figurative language, and determine word meaning in context. Students need to understand how poets use metaphors and imagery to convey deeper meanings about universal experiences like parenting and family relationships. The core concepts required include recognizing narrative perspective, interpreting figurative language such as similes and metaphors, supporting inferences with textual evidence, and understanding how context clues help determine word meaning. Students must demonstrate close reading skills by analyzing how specific word choices and poetic devices contribute to the poem's overall theme about a mother watching her children grow from dependent youngsters into independent teenagers. Created by Nancy Hoover, an English teacher in the US who teaches grade 6. This quiz serves as an excellent tool for assessing students' comprehension of poetic devices and their ability to analyze literature at the middle school level. Teachers can use this assessment as a formative evaluation after students have read and discussed the poem in class, or as a summative assessment to gauge understanding of key literary concepts. The quiz works well as a follow-up activity to guided reading sessions, homework assignment after independent reading, or as a warm-up review before discussing similar poems that explore family dynamics and coming-of-age themes. The questions align with Common Core standards RL.6.1 for citing textual evidence to support analysis, RL.6.4 for determining meaning of words and phrases including figurative language, and RL.6.6 for explaining how an author develops the point of view of the narrator in a text.
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
10 mins • 1 pt
From whose point of view is this story told?
a neighbor
a friend
the child
the mother
Tags
CCSS.RL.1.6
CCSS.RL.5.6
CCSS.RL.6.6
CCSS.RL.7.6
CCSS.RL.8.6
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
10 mins • 1 pt
What do lines 9-14 of the poem mainly suggest?
Years later the door opens.
I see faces I once held,
open as sunflowers in my hands. I see
familiar skin now stretched on long bodies
that move past me
glowing almost like pearls.
the speaker’s children are well over six feet tall
the speaker doesn’t even recognize the children now that they are grown
the speaker is amazed at how the children have grown into adults
the children look nothing like they did when they were younger
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CCSS.RL.5.4
CCSS.RL.6.4
CCSS.RL.5.5
CCSS.RL.7.5
CCSS.RL.7.10
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
10 mins • 1 pt
Which passage from the poem most strongly supports the correct answer to the previous question?
“Years later the door opens”
I see faces I once held, / open as sunflowers in my hands”
“I see / familiar skin now stretched on long bodies”
“that move past me glowing almost like pearls”
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CCSS.RL.5.4
CCSS.RL.6.4
CCSS.RL.5.5
CCSS.RL.7.5
CCSS.RL.7.4
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
10 mins • 1 pt
Which of the following inferences is best supported by the second stanza (lines 6-8)?
I pace the hall, hear whispers,
a code I knew but can’t remember,
mouthed by mouths I taught to speak.
The speaker of the poem used to work as an English teacher.
The speaker’s children are whispering so that their parents can’t hear them.
The speaker of the poem is beginning to lose her memory.
The speaker’s teenage children are learning another language at school.
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CCSS.RL.5.4
CCSS.RL.6.4
CCSS.RL.5.5
CCSS.RL.7.5
CCSS.RL.7.10
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
10 mins • 1 pt
The word code in the following passage most closely refers to ________________.
I pace the hall, hear whispers,
a code I knew but can’t remember,
mouthed by mouths I taught to speak.
a password or PIN number
a way of communicating so the adults don't understand
a set of rules or ethics
instructions for a computer or program
Tags
CCSS.RL.5.4
CCSS.RL.6.4
CCSS.RL.7.4
CCSS.RI.6.4
CCSS.RL.5.1
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