No Sudden Moves! - Vocabulary Words Matching

Cassandra (a)   shared her piece of cake with her sister. She was not happy about it.

Most students were (a)   to start their summer, while others were getting ready for summer school.

Read the text. Use text clues to figure out what the underlined word means. 

“ She’d been geared up for an epic summer with her best friends when the news came: her mom was being transferred to Colorado to be a flight instructor at the Air Force Academy.”

• long, hot, and sad

• a long poem

• an impressive or memorable event

Does Dani care about the move?

• yes

• no

How did Dani feel about the move?

• happy

• sad

Does Dani argue with her parents in the text?

• yes

• sometimes

• no

Which sentence shows Dani is bothered by the move for her mother’s job?

• Shielding her eyes from the sun, Dani breathed in the fresh mountain air.

• She and her parents were hiking in Red Rocks Park, where every twist and turn in the trail showed new and stunning views of the surrounding mountains

• She’d been geared up for an epic summer with her best friends.

• Thinking about Virginia made all her hard feelings about the move come rushing back