"American History" by Judith Ortiz Cofer- Pre Assessment

There was only one source of beauty and light for me that school year. The only thing I had "anticipated" at start of the semester...seeing Eugene.

From the context, what does the word "anticipated" mean?

• eagerly expected

• briefly but intensely in love

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Enamorada (enamored, lovesick) was wht she relly said, that is--like a girl stupidly "infatuated."

From the context, what does the word "infatuated" mean?

• loving, loyal, and concerned with another's well-being

• briefly but intensely in love

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I had started reading Gone with the Wind. I was "enthralled" by it, with the daring and the passion of the beautiful girl living in a mansion...

From the context, what does the word "enthralled" mean?

• happiness and excitement

• captivated; totally captured the attention of

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...and with her "devoted" parents and the slaves who did everything for them.

From the context, what does the word "devoted" mean?

• eagerly expected

• loving, loyal, and concerned with another's well-being

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Though I wanted to feel the right thing about President Kennedy's death, I could not fight the feeling of "elation" that stirred in my chest. Today was the day I was to visit Eugene at his house.

From the context, what does the word "elation" mean?

• briefly but intensely in love

• happiness and excitement

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CCSS.RL.9-10.4

She tried to embrace me, but my books were in the way. My first "impulse" was to comfort her, she seemed so distraught, but I had to meet Eugene in fifteen minutes.

From the context, what does the word "impulse" mean?

• happiness and excitement

• urge to act or do something

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CCSS.RL.9-10.4

struggle between two opposing forces

• conflict

• imagery

a character grapples with his or her own beliefs, values, needs, or desires; for example, a character may know something is wrong but still be pulled to do it.

• external conflict

• internal conflict

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a character struggles against an outside force. This force may be another character, nature, or society; for example, a character trying to survive a hurricane at sea..

• external conflict

• internal conflict

when two words in different languages share a common origin, they are called...

• root word

• cognate