Teenagers by Pat Mora

From whose point of view is this story told?

• a neighbor

• a friend

• the child

• the mother

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CCSS.RL.6.6

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.6.1

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.6.5

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.6.1

CCSS.RL.6.4

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.6.1

CCSS.RL.6.4

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

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CCSS.L.6.4A

CCSS.RL.6.4