Fire & Ice

Name the poet who wrote Fire and Ice.

• Robert Arthur

• Emily Dickenson

• Edgar Allen Poe

• Robert Frost

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CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.4

What do you think 'ice' could be a symbol of?

• winter

• death

• hatred

• fun

What do you think 'fire' could be a symbol of?

• desire

• love

• epidemic

• destruction

Which two things will destroy the world according to the author?

• Fire and Ice

• Hatred and Desire

• Love and Compassion

• Evil and Greed

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CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.4

If someone called you childish, would it be considered to have a positive, negative, or neutral connotation?

• Positive

• Negative

• Neutral

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CCSS.L.6.5C

CCSS.L.7.5C

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Choose the word that best completes the sentence. Hint: Determine the connotation (positive, negative, or neutral) through context clues.

Although the problem was difficult to resolve, Sandy and John were _____ in searching for an answer. Their teacher was quite proud.

• persistent

• stubborn

• bullheaded

• headstrong

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CCSS.L.6.5C

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

When you look up a word in the dictionary, you find its...

• connotation

• denotation

• synonym

• homonym

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CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.5.2D

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

What is the term for the emotions that a word stirs in a reader?

• synonym

• denotation

• homonym

• connotation

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CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.5.2D

CCSS.W.6.2D

Read the sentence below. What is the denotation of the word 'superior'?

My old computer kept running out of batteries. My new one is superior.

• positive

• worse

• better

• negative

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CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

A compliment, or nice comment, would be to say the cat in the picture is...

• bizarre

• strange

• weird

• unique

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CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5