
Showing vs. Telling
Authored by Brea Schorn
English
9th Grade
CCSS covered
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
20 sec • Ungraded
Hairs: "But my mother's hair, my mother's hair, like little rosettes, like little candy circles all curly and pretty because she pinned it in pincurls all day, sweet to put your nose into when she is holding you ..." (6)
Showing
Telling
Tags
CCSS.RI.11-12.5
CCSS.RI.6.5
CCSS.RI.7.5
CCSS.RI.8.5
CCSS.RI.9-10.5
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
20 sec • Ungraded
Boys & Girls: "Nenny is too young to be my friend. She's just my sister and that was not my fault. You don't pick your sisters, you just get them and sometimes they come like Nenny" (8).
Showing
Telling
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
20 sec • Ungraded
Our Good Day: "We ride faster and faster. Past my house, sad and red and crumbly in places, past Mr. Benny's grocery on the corner, and down the avenue, which is dangerous ... " (16).
Showing
Telling
Tags
CCSS.RI. 9-10.1
CCSS.RI.8.1
CCSS.RL.11-12.2
CCSS.RL.8.1
CCSS.RL.9-10.2
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
20 sec • Ungraded
The Family of Little Feet: "There was a family. All were little. Their arms were little, and their hands were little, and their height was not tall, and their feet very small" (39).
Showing
Telling
Tags
CCSS.RI.11-12.5
CCSS.RI.6.5
CCSS.RI.7.5
CCSS.RI.8.5
CCSS.RI.9-10.5
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
20 sec • Ungraded
Born Bad: "But I knew her sick from the disease that would not go, her legs bunched under the yellow sheets, the bones gone limp as worms. The yellow pillow, the yellow smell, the bottles and spoons. The head thrown back like a thirsty lady. My aunt, the swimmer" (58).
Showing
Telling
Tags
CCSS.L.3.3A
CCSS.L.4.3A
CCSS.L.5.3A
CCSS.L.6.3A
CCSS.L.6.3B
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
20 sec • Ungraded
The Earl of Tennessee: "The word is that Earl is married and has a wife somewhere. Edna says she saw her once when Earl brought her to the apartment" (71).
Showing
Telling
Tags
CCSS.RL.8.3
CCSS.RL.11-12.3
CCSS.RL.7.3
CCSS.RL.9-10.3
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
20 sec • Ungraded
Minerva Writes Poems: "Minerva is only a little bit older than me but already she has two kids and a husband who left. Her mother raised her kids alone and it looks like her daughters will go that way too" (84).
Showing
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