3/29 Mid Unit Review - Team Moon

Which statement best describes the central idea of the article "Team Moon"?

• The Apollo 11 team was confident they would be successful in landing a man on the moon and bringing him back safely.

• The Apollo 11 team faced many challenges and worked for years to construct a module that could make their dream of landing on the moon a reality.

• The Apollo 11 team knew that they were more likely to fail than not. They were scared, but they worked together to try and overcome this fear.

• The Apollo 11 team faced few challenges as they designed, developed, and build a successful space module.

Which piece of text evidence best supports the central idea statement below: 

The Apollo 11 team faced many challenges and worked for years to construct a module that could make their dream of landing on the moon a reality.

• "After all, no one knew what a lunar module was ever supposed to look like. And so, form followed function. Never mind if it looked like a bug." (para. 1)

• “The Countdown Demonstration Test, or CDDT, gives us confidence that we’re going to get there in time and everything’s going to percolate [work perfectly] together,” (para. 11)

• "The compact-car-size space capsule would be greeted and surrounded by searing white-hot flames as it slammed madly back down to Earth." (para. 4)

• “Fourteen thousand folks there, plus a skilled hodgepodge of eight thousand other companies, toiled to ensure that millions of components on the command module were in top-notch order.” (para. 7)

Look in the text. What are three words/phrases with a positive connotation?

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Look in the text. What are three words/phrases with a negative connotation?

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Connotation is the ______ associated with the word.

What is the connotation of the word "wizards" as used in the following sentence: "But the wizards at North American Rockwell (NASA’s prime contractor for the command module) were up to the challenge."

• they are smart problem solvers

• they used magic to make the spaceship fly

• they used dangerous methods to meet the needs of the challenge

• they were outsiders compared to others working on the project

______________ is the dictionary definition of a word.