Just Like Home

  Part A

What is the meaning of the word drift as it is used in  paragraph  18 of "Just Like Home"?

• consider

• wander

• change

• hover

Part B

Which detail from the story helps the reader understand the meaning of drift?

•  Priya, Enrique, and Farah create drawings that have different colors and shapes.

•  Jasper studies the drawings and decides they look like tropical fish swimming in a coral reef.

•  Lily, Jasper, and Enrique make comments about the drawings as the students come close enough to see them

•  Priya smiles when her teacher and classmates show an interest in the drawings by describing them to one another.

Priya from "Just Like Home" would agree with which statement?

• Sharing family traditions can bring comfort.

• Working together is the  best way to  achieve success.

•  Using imagination often makes ordinary situations exciting.

• Making quick decisions can sometimes  bring the best results.

Part B

Which paragraph from the story supports the answer to Part A?

•  paragraph 3

•  paragraph 11

•  paragraph 29

•  paragraph 22

Part A

In "Just Like Home," what can be learned about Priya from her statement, "It looks like home"?

•   She believes imagination improves art.

• She realizes many of her classmates have artistic talent.

• She misses the family traditions in India.

•  She wishes she could spend time with her friends in India.

Part B Which detail supports  the answer to  Part A?

•   "At her old school, she spent recess climbing the monkey bars and sharing  secrets  with  her friends." (paragraph 1)

•   "While she and  her  classmates  filed through  the  halls and out  into the yard, Priya thought about how she and her mother used to draw chalk patterns on the long driveway leading up to their old apartment building." (paragraph 4)

•  "Then he drew circles inside circles, and surrounded them with small diamonds. Priya kept drawing too, in between and around Enrique's designs." (paragraph 11)

• D.  "Priya, Enrique  and Farah stood up and looked  at  what they  had done. The pavement was covered in bright colors and shapes: triangles, circles, squares and  diamonds,  all  mixed together." (paragraph 18)