"The Flying Machine" Review

When does this story take place?

• 400 A.D.

• The 19th century

• Present Day

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CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

In which country does this story take place?

• Russia

• South Korea

• China

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CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

Compare and Contrast how the Servant and Emperor react to the news of the flying man.

• The servant is worried and the emperor is reassuring and pleased.

• The servant is excited and the emperor acts bored or uninterested.

• The servant is amused and the emperor is afraid or fearful.

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CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

How does the emperor feel about the flying machine?

• He is impressed at the man's creativity

• He thinks it's a great idea for transportation

• He is worried that an evil man will use it for destruction

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CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

What does the emperor see as the difference between his invention (the miniature wind-up garden) and the inventor's flying machine?

• He has made a machine that is beautiful and the inventor has made a machine that is ugly

• His believes his machine is superior because it was made by an emperor, and he does not believe a commoner could make a machine better than his

• He is aware of the effects his invention may have while the inventor does not fully know what he has created and how it can be used.

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CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

What happened to the man who invented the machine?

• He was executed

• He was paid for his machine

• He was warned not to tell anyone else about it

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CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RI. 9-10.1

CCSS.RL.7.1

Choose the text evidence that tells of the warning given to the servant and farmer if they speak of what they saw:

• "You have told me nothing at all"

• "You will be dead within the hour"

• "There are times one must lose a little beauty to keep what beauty one already has."

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CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

CCSS.RI.7.1

What concept does the emperor seem to value highly throughout this story? Hint: this word was repeated many times and was symbolized by the birds in his garden as well as the birds that flew away in the execution frame.

• Beauty

• Power

• Truth

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CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

CCSS.RI. 9-10.9

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

Define SOLACE.

• Something that is related to the sun

• Comfort, or taking comfort in something

• The solution to a problem

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CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Define HORDES.

• Piles of junk

• An enemy faction

• Crowds of people

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CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RI.6.4