6th Grade Check-In #7

1. Which of the following selections best explains how the two boys respond to their disapproving neighbors?

• 1. They pay no attention to them.

• 1. They stop walking because it upsets them.

• 1. They stare back at the neighbors.

• 1. They cross into their neighbors’ front yards.

1. The final quatrain of the poem (lines 9-12) suggests mainly that .

   Oblivious to look and word
   They pass, and see no wonder
   That lightning brilliant as a sword
   Should blaze the path of thunder.

• 1. the boys don’t plan to walk past these unkind neighbors ever again

• 1. the boys are carrying swords with them as they walk

• 1. the boys don’t realize the significance of what they are doing

• 1. the neighborhood where the boys walk is having severe thunderstorms

1. Which of the following inferences is best supported by the poem?

• 1. The boys walking together cause people to talk quietly and in secret.

• 1. The boys are ashamed of their relationship with each other.

• 1. The two boys did not know each other before going on their walk together.

• 1. The walk only lasts for a couple minutes.

Match the following

• indignant

• a simultaneous performance of actions

• unison

• have pale or light skin or hair

• fair

• indignant

• splendor

• lacking mindfulness; unaware

• oblivious

• magnificent and impressive

9 Oblivious to look and word
10 They pass, and see no wonder
11 That lightning brilliant as a sword
12 Should blaze the path of thunder.

1. Lines 9-10 reveal...

• 1. the boys are impolite as they ignore their neighbors.

• 1. the conflict in the poem.

• 1. the boys’ proud nature as they walk together.

• 1. the importance of the setting in the poem.

Oblivious to look and word
10 They pass, and see no wonder
11 That lightning brilliant as a sword
12 Should blaze the path of thunder.

2. What theme does stanza 3 reveal?

• 1. Don’t judge a book by its cover.

• 1. Be confident when doing the right thing.

• 1. Ignoring others leads to the path of justice.

• 1. Gossiping is wrong.

What does personification mean?

• The message or lesson a reader can learn from a book.

• to visualize what is happening in a book

• a figurative device in which human attributes or feelings are given to an inanimate object or thing as if it were human

• to predict what you think will happen in a story.

What does making inferences mean?

• To picture in your head what is happening in a book

• The message or lesson of a book.

• To guess what you think is going to happen in a book with no textual evidence

• when a reader takes what they know and what the texts tells them in order to answer a question about a book

True or False: All poems have to rhyme.

• True

• False

True or False: All poems have the same poetic structure.

• True

• False