Arachne

What does the word theme mean?

• What the passage is mostly about.

• Language used to make reading more intersting.

• The lesson, moral, or meaning of a story.

• A picture painted in the mind of the readers.

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CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.7.4

What is a possible theme of the fictional story Arachne?

• Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

• Always bekind to strangers you never know who they are.

• Arrogance will always lead to a bad end.

• Choose kindness

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CCSS.RL.7.2

What answer choice best fits to lessons that Arachne learns from her interaction with Athena?

• Choose kindness.

  Always avoid strangers.

• Don't be arrogant even if you are good at what you do.

  Respect your elders.

• Beauty is only skin deep.

  Make wise choices.

• Pride comes before a fall.

  Before carefull how you treat strangers you never know who they are.

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CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.W.7.9A

Who teaches Arachne how to weave?

• Her fatrher

• Athena the goddess

• She learns on her own.

• Her mother

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CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.W.7.9A

How are Athena and Arachne similar?

Arachne is very prideful through the competition. What is her fate as a result of her arrogance.

• Athena turns her into a spider.

• Arachne looses the competition.

• Arachne wins the competition.

• Arachne is sentence to Hades

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CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.W.7.9A

Which answer choice best proves that Arachne is famous?

Go back and look for text evidence.

• “Surely Athena herself must have taught her,” people would murmur to one another.

• Praise was all she lived for, and it displeased her greatly that people should think anyone, even a goddess, could teach her anything.

• One day when Arachne turned round with such words, an old woman answered her, a gray old woman, bent and very poor, who stood leaning on a staff and peering at Arachne amid the crowd of onlookers. “

• People used to come from far and wide to watch her working.

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CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.W.7.9A

What is the tone of the paragraph below?

“Stupid old woman,” said Arachne indignantly, “who gave you a right to speak in this way to me? It is easy to see that you were never good for anything in your day, or you would not come here in poverty and rags to gaze at my skill. If Athena resents my words, let her answer them herself. I have challenged her to a contest, but she, of course, will not come. It is easy for the gods to avoid matching their skill with that of men.” 

• annoyed and jealous

• scared and anxious

• angry and arrogant

• excited and annoyed

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CCSS.L.7.5C

CCSS.L.7.5D

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

What word can best be used to describe Arachne?

• annoying

• intelligent

• Fierce

• Proud

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CCSS.L.7.5C

CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RL.7.4

Which sentence foreshadows Arachne turning into a spider?

• At last Arachne’s fame became so great that people used to come from far and wide to watch her working

  ( paragraph 2)

•  Her eyes were light and her hair was a dusty brown, yet she was quick and graceful, and her fingers, roughened as they were, went so fast that it was hard to follow their flickering movements. So soft and even was her thread, so fine her cloth, so gorgeous her embroidery, that soon her products were known all over Greece (paragraph 1)

• . As for Athena’s weaving, how could there be finer cloth or more beautiful embroidery than mine? If Athena herself were to come down and compete with me, she could do no better than I.” (paragraph 3)

• At these words the old woman threw down her staff and stood erect. The wondering onlookers saw her grow tall and fair and stand clad in long robes of dazzling white (paragraph6)

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CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.W.7.9A