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What characteristics tell you that Barbed Wire Baseball is a biography?

• Zeni is writing about his own life

• The author Marissa Moss is writing about Zeni’s life

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CCSS.RI.11-12.10

CCSS.RI.6.10

CCSS.RI.7.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RI.9-10.10

Zeni is ................................. baseball player.

• An American

• A Japanese

• An American- Japanese

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CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

Zeni is a ................................. player.

• football

• basketball

• baseball

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CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.3.3C

CCSS.RF.3.3D

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

Why did everyone think that Zeni couldn’t play baseball?

• he is too big and tall

• he is too small and frail

• he is too brave and strong

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CCSS.RF.3.4C

CCSS.RF.4.4C

CCSS.RI.4.1

CCSS.RL.3.2

CCSS.RL.4.1

The idiom “he was hooked” means: 

• he became very interested

• he is not very much interested

• he is careless

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CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RL.3.4

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

frail means:

• very strong

• very weak

• very brave

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CCSS.RI.3.4

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RL.3.4

CCSS.RL.4.4

The idiom “you’re a mouse” means:

• you’re shy and weak-

• you’re brave and strong

• very brave

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CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RL.3.4

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

What event in the story caused Zeni’s world of playing baseball collapse?

• Civil War

• Japanese attack of Pearl Harbor

• world war 2

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CCSS.RL.7.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

The idiom “he didn’t measure up” means:

• he isn’t fast enough

• he isn't tall enough

• he isn’t good enough

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CCSS.RI.3.4

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RL.3.4

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

Internment means:

• freedom

• as if in prison or confinement

• origin

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CCSS.RI.3.4

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RL.3.4

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.5.4