Checkpoint Review: Boxes of Hope

1. What change should be made in sentence 2? 

• 1. Delete the common after fact

• 1. Change Sea to sea

• 1. Change was to were

• 1. Insert a comma after damaged

What is the correct way to write sentence 12?

• 1. After my mom, added a scoop of the seasoning blend Apoorva gave the bag to her father, who weighed it and then sealed it with an electric sealing machine.

• 1. After my mom added a scoop, of the seasoning blend Apoorva gave the bag to her father who weighed it, and then sealed it with an electric sealing machine.

• 1. After my mom added a scoop of the seasoning blend, Apoorva gave the bag to her father who weighed it and then sealed it, with an electric sealing machine.

• 1. No change needs to be made in this sentence. 

How does sentence 15 need to be changed?

• 1. Change team’s to teams’

• 1. Change it to them

• Insert a comma after boxe

• Change contained to contain

What is the BEST way to combine sentences 4 and 5?

• 1. People were struggling to do something to help, I decided to be a volunteer for the first time in my life! 

• People were struggling, and I wanted to do something to help, so I decided to be a volunteer for the first time in my life!

• 1. People were struggling; I decided to be a volunteer for the first time in my life.

• 1. People were struggling and I wanted to do something to help so I decided to be a volunteer for the first time in my life.

Talia needs to clarify the meaning of sentence 2. What is the most effective way to do this?

• 1. the Caribbean

• 1. the sea

• 1. the ocean

Talia would like to add the following sentence to the third paragraph (sentences 13-15). 

 Where is the BEST place to insert this sentence?

• 1. After sentence 12

• 1. After sentence 13

• 1. After sentence 14

• 1. After sentence 15

What change, if any, needs to be made to sentence 3?

• 1. Insert a comma after hospitals

• 1. Change damaged to dameged

• 1. Delete the comma after schools

• 1. No change needs to be made in this sentence. 

What change, if any, needs to be made to sentence 5? 

• 1. Change parents to parents’

• 1. Change spent to spend

• 1. Change the period to an exclamation point

• 1. No change needs to be made in this sentence. 

What change, if any, needs to be made to sentence 17? 

• 1. Change hurricanes to huricanes

• 1. Change thousands to thousand’s

• 1. Insert a comma after over

• 1. No change needs to be made in this sentence.

Talia wants to combine the ideas in sentences 4 and 5. In the space or box provided, write a new sentence that combines these ideas in a clear and effective way.