Red Scarf Girl - Lessons 8 - 12

What did the Red Guards catch Ji-li trying to do?

• clean up behind them

• pick up her stamp collection

• speak to her siblings

• protect Little White

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CCSS.RL.7.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

Why does Ji-li reach for her stamps?

• She doesn't want her cat to walk on them

• She doesn't want her stamp collection to be destroyed

• She wants to keep her siblings calm by looking at them

• She wants to keep her room neat

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CCSS.RI.7.1

CCSS.RL.6.1

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RL.7.2

Which statement from the text BEST supports your answer in the last question?

• "She scurried among the open chests until she was kicked by a Red Guard." (104)

• "He took each piece of clothing off its hanger and threw it onto the floor behind him." (105)

• "Ji-yun lay with her head in my lap, quietly sobbing, and Ji-yong sat in silence." (117)

• "It had been a birthday gift from Grandma when I started school, and it was my dearest treasure." (108)

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CCSS.RI.7.1

CCSS.RL.6.1

CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.8.1

What do Ji-li, her siblings, and her grandmother begin to do every day?

• Visit Uncle Tian and his wife

• Do tai-chi exercises

• Go to the park

• Watch the street for signs of the Red Guards

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CCSS.RL.7.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

How does your answer from the previous questions affect Ji-li's Grandma?

• She becomes calmer.

• She becomes more physically fit.

• She becomes friendlier.

• She becomes a secret spy.

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

How did Ji-li's father decide which photos to burn?

• He chose all the photos that were in the family's photo albums.

• He chose the ones that he thought wouldn't create a lot of smoke and alert the neighbors.

• He chose all of the photos that he thought could be considered fourolds.

• He chose only the photos of his parents in old-fashioned gowns and mandarin jackets.

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CCSS.RL.7.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

Why didn't Ji-li want her brother to get his cap back?

• She was worried it would cause more trouble for the family.

• She thought his friends were a bad influence on him and didn't want him involved with them at all.

• She knew that whoever took it was just fooling around.

• She thought it would show that he didn't support the Cultural Revolution.

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CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

What was An Yi's mother, Teacher Wei forced to do?

• She had to sweep the streets.

• She had to beat a gong and speak out against herself in public.

• She had to whip people accused of being "reactionary monsters".

• She had to leave her teaching job permanently.

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CCSS.RI.2.1

CCSS.RI.3.1

CCSS.RL.1.1

CCSS.RL.2.1

CCSS.RL.3.1

Why didn't Ji-li's cousin, Shan-shan, help his own mother, Xi-wen, get up after she fell? He didn't help her because ___________.

• her clothes - "an old blue blouse, loose and faded with a big patch on the elbow" - embarrassed him

• after their house was searched he officially broke relations with her

• he thought she fell on purpose to get sympathy

• he had to live in the same house with her and might never speak to her again

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CCSS.RI.7.1

CCSS.RL.6.1

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RL.7.2

What did An Yi and Ji-li do that they knew was fourolds?

• They blamed their elders for the trouble their families were in.

• They decided to wear clothes that were considered bourgeois.

• They tried to see into the future by practicing a superstitious ritual.

• They agreed that students who didn't study should get dismissed from study groups.

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CCSS.RL.7.9

CCSS.RL.8.9