The Whale Rider Prologue

This prologue is a what type of story

• Creation story

• Simple myth or legend

• Anansi story

• Introduction

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CCSS.RL.4.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

What was at the bottom of the world? that 'when you looked into it you felt you could see to the end of forever'

• a pool

• a sea

• a well

• a chasm

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CCSS.RL.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

Even at the beginning in this story there was life in the land and the sea

• True

• False

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CCSS.RL.4.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

Within the warm stomach of the rainforests - this is what literary device?

• alliteration

• anaphora

• metaphor

• simile

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

They swam in brilliant shoals, like rains of glittering dust - this is an example of what literary device

• alliteration

• anaphora

• metaphor

• simile

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Waiting. Waiting for the seeding. Waiting for the gifting. Waiting for the blessing to come. This is an example of

• alliteration

• anaphora

• metaphor

• simile

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

What is the most important creature in the prologue - the bringer of blessing and 'seeds'?

• tuatara

• stingray

• pohutukawa

• whale

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CCSS.RI.11-12.10

CCSS.RI.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

What does the man on the back of the whale throw?

• spears

• seeds

• fish

• magic dust

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CCSS.RL.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9