Narrative Nonfiction

Read the list of topics for the first three paragraphs of the passage.

• Born in Tennessee, moved to Pennsylvania

• Interested in science during childhood

• Studied chemistry at the university

These topics indicate that this passage is organized by

• listing information in order of importance.

• giving events in chronological order.

• comparing one event to others.

• stating a cause and showing its effects.

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CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

Ever since I won the award, my emotions have been a real roller coaster.

What is the literal meaning of this metaphor?

• My emotions have made me feel sick ever since I won the award.

• Ever since I won the award, I've been feeling excited.

• My emotions have been varied since I won the award—good and bad.

• Ever since I won the award, I have been feeling upset.

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CCSS.L.6.4A

CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

From Rosa Parks: My Story

How does the following passage add to the development of the author’s account (paragraph 12)?

“I asked if I could make a telephone call and they said, “No.” Since that was my first arrest, I didn’t know if that was more discrimination because I was black or if it was standard practice. But it seemed to me to be more discrimination.”

• The police had to later throw out the charges against Parks because they did not grant the appropriate rights.

• The phone call was the final straw before Parks finally lost her cool on the police officers.

• Parks thinks that things inside jail that day would have gone different if she had been allowed to make that call to the NAACP.

• Parks is pointing out that the culture of unfair treatment against African Americans was so commonplace that she had come to expect it.

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CCSS.RI.6.6

CCSS.RI.6.9

CCSS.RI.7.6

CCSS.RI.7.9

CCSS.RL.6.6

From I Am Malala:

What does the following text from paragraph 12 most likely reveal about the situation in Swat Valley?

“‘No one has gone to school following the Taliban’s deadline. The army is doing nothing about it. They are sitting in their bunkers on top of the hills. They slaughter goats and eat with pleasure.’”

• The army and Taliban are positioned and ready to fight if citizens ignore new rules in Swat Valley.

• The army and the citizens have more time for leisure in Swat Valley after changes ordered by the Taliban.

• The army is dedicated to protecting the rights of the citizens who want to be educated in Swat Valley.

• The army should protect the citizens of Swat Valley but is obeying the Taliban’s orders.

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

The author includes paragraph 2 most likely to show —

2. Years later my grown children and I were discussing my son-in-law’s time in Africa, where he served in the Peace Corps. We loved hearing his stories about that experience. I mentioned to them the dream I had a little more than fifty years ago and within moments I began realizing that the conversation had changed and we were talking about me—and the Peace Corps—and the real possibility.

• what similarities she shared with the people in other cultures

• why she wanted to join the Peace Corps as a child

• what initially piqued her interest in helping others

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CCSS.RI.5.2

CCSS.RI.6.2

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

Which text structure organizes information by describing how things are similar?

• comparison

• description

• argument and evidence

• classification

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CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5