Towers Falling

Ben and Sabeen shared their lunches with Deja as they ----.

• covered the blacktop on the playground with colorful chalk drawings

• talked about their project ideas for the upcoming science fair

• put pins and strings in a world map that showed where students were from

• sat together in the principal's office and filled out new-student forms

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CCSS.RI.5.1

CCSS.RI.6.1

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.6.1

As Miss Garcia talked to Deja about her assignments, what did Deja decide?

• not to tell Ma about the assignments

• not to lie about where she lived

• to write about her grandma's house

• not to attend class the next day

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CCSS.RL.3.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

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CCSS.RL.7.3

Deja was sent to the principal's office after she ----

• purposely broke Trevor's favorite pen

• spoke in mean voice to Sabeen and said she hated the school

• said the word list for spelling that week was "stupid"

• shoved Angel into a wall for accidentally stepping on Ben's foot

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CCSS.RL.3.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

What did Miss Garcia like about Deja's project?

• the "before" and "after" drawings of her old home and Avalon

• the paper dolls Ray had made that expressed home as family

• the poem she had written about Ma coming to America from Jamaica

• the collage Deja had made using both family photos and artwork

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CCSS.RL.3.6

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.6

What happened while Sabeen and Deja were at Ben's to work on a project?

• Ben's mom scolded Deja for bringing Ray and Leda along without asking first.

• Sabeen began to cry and asked to go home after reading what Ben had written.

• Ben locked himself in his room after talking to his dad on the phone

• Pop showed up and embarrassed Deja by crying and acting "out of it"

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CCSS.RI.5.1

CCSS.RI.6.1

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.2

What did Pop learn when he went to school with Deja one day?

• Sabeen's uncle had been beaten after the attack as he was leaving the mosque

• Ben's grandfather had been one of the firefighters who died on 9/11

• Miss Garcia had seen the planes hit the towers the day of the attack.

• Miss Thompson still carried scars from hot debris that fell from the planes

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CCSS.RF.4.4C

CCSS.RI.4.1

CCSS.RL.3.1

CCSS.RL.6.1

CCSS.RL.6.2

What caused Deja to want to see a video of what had happened to the towers?

• She recalled a movie about a man walking on the tightrope between the towers

• Trevor told the class his grandma had died in the South Tower

• She learned Pop had survived the attack

• She was confused by the news stories Ma showed her.

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CCSS.RI.2.1

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CCSS.RL.3.1

After Deja walked out of Mr. Schmidt's class, she and Ben decided to ---

• start a support group for kids with relatives who had died on 9/11

• skip school the next day to go to the memorial

• tell on Michael for teasing Sabeen about her scarf

• do a video project about how the towers were built

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CCSS.RL.3.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

What did Ben do for the man from Kansas who pointed to his daughters name?

• He took the man's picture for him

• He bought a white rose and gave it to the man in her honor

• He helped the man make a charcoal rubbing of her name

• He gave the man a sketch of the memorial

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CCSS.RI.1.4

CCSS.RI.2.1

CCSS.RI.3.1

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CCSS.RL.3.1

What had Pop done as the North Tower started to come down?

• He jumped from a third-story window breaking both of his legs

• He pried open a jammed elevator door to rescue Luis and Kelly

• He helped Mrs. Able fo down the stairs and out of the building

• He stopped a frantic woman from going into the tower to find her friend

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CCSS.RF.3.4C

CCSS.RF.5.4C

CCSS.RI.4.1

CCSS.RI.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.2