The Man in the Water

 This reading shows us that man cares about man but nature does not care about man.

• True

• False

• I have no clue!

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

CCSS.RI. 9-10.9

CCSS.RI.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.8.2

The Air Florida Flight 90 crashed into the 14th Street Bridge before splashing into the icy Potomac River shortly after take-off.

• True

• False

• I have no clue!

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.10

CCSS.RI.9-10.10

CCSS.RI.6.10

CCSS.RI.7.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

The plane crashed due to large amounts of ice and snow gathered in the engines and on the wings without being melted.  A large blizzard was hitting the East Coast area.

• True

• False

• I have no clue!

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RI.8.8

CCSS.RL.11-12.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

Everyone on the airplane died as a result of the crash.

• True

• False

• I have no clue!

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

CCSS.RI.11-12.1

There was only one hero, or one person, who tried to help others during this disaster.

• True

• False

• I have no clue!

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.10

CCSS.RI.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

“The jets from Washington National Airport that normally swoop around the presidential monuments like famished gulls …” This line contains an example of

• metaphor

• symbol

• allusion

• simile

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

The balding man in the water could be labeled as

• selfless

• a hero

• considerate of others

• all of these answers

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

“For a while he was Everyman, and thus proof (as if one needed it) that no man is ordinary.”  This line would contain an example of

• personification

• allusion

• symbol

• simile

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.2.6

“And there was the aesthetic clash as well - blue-and-green Air Florida, the name a flying garden, sunk down among gray chunks in a black river.”  This line would be an example of 

• personification

• simile

• metaphor

• symbol

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3