Literary Present Tense

Shetty _____ up in the rural parts of India, where girls were not expected to pursue higher education

• grew

• grows

• grown

• growed

Tags

CCSS.L.3.1E

CCSS.L.4.1B

CCSS.L.5.1.B-D

CCSS.L.5.1C

CCSS.L.5.1D

She _____, “My father was confused, my mother was worried, but I felt butterflies in my stomach” (Shetty 04:27).

• said

• says

• saying

• was saying

Tags

CCSS.L.3.2C

CCSS.L.4.2B

CCSS.L.6.3A

Shetty ______ that  “[b]y the time [her] fellowship ended, [her] life had changed. Not only did [she] trace [her] lost voice, but also had a choice to make [herself]  useful.”

• recognized

• recognizes

• recognizing

• was recognizing

Tags

CCSS.L.3.1D

CCSS.L.4.1B

CCSS.L.5.1.B-D

CCSS.L.5.1C

CCSS.L.5.1D

In the TED Talk, “How Education Helped Rewrite my life,” Ashweetha Shetty ______ her experience as a woman in rural India and how it shaped her view of the purpose of education

• relates

• related

• was relating

• had related

Tags

CCSS.L.4.1B

CCSS.L.5.1.B-D

CCSS.L.5.1B

CCSS.L.5.1C

CCSS.L.5.1D

After college, Shetty _______ to her home village and ____ The Bodhi Tree Foundation, a nonprofit focused on making a change in the lives of rural students.

• returns, started

• returned, started

• returned, starts

• returns, starts

Tags

CCSS.L.3.1D

CCSS.L.4.1B

CCSS.L.5.1.B-D

CCSS.L.5.1C

CCSS.L.5.1D

Shetty ______ how “finding [her] use has helped [her] to break free from being boxed, caged, and bottled” (9:46).

• explained

• explaining

• explains

• was explaining

Tags

CCSS.L.3.1E

CCSS.L.4.1B

CCSS.L.5.1.B-D

CCSS.L.5.1C

CCSS.L.5.1D

Shetty _______ the day she taught her mother how to write her name and how it made her feel useful for the first time. She ____, “As I watched her do this, for the first time in my life, I had a priceless feeling: that I could be of some use to this world” (1:17).

• mentions, saying

• mentioned, says

• mentions, said

• mentions, says

Tags

CCSS.L.3.2C

CCSS.L.4.2B

CCSS.L.6.3A

Shetty _____reading Keller’s ’s autobiography, which _____ her to pursue her education.

• discusses, inspires

• discusses, inspired

• discussed, inspires

• discussed, inspired

Tags

CCSS.L.3.1A

CCSS.L.3.1D