A Secret Language (Unit 4 Chap 6)

Select the adjectives that the author applies to describe her grandmother's English.

• nostaglic

• mysterious

• dull

• light & crystalline

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

Anh, Osaid, and Mia are discussing the advantages of being multilingual in today's global society. Select ALL that apply.

Benefits of speaking multiple languages include:

• job opportunities

• exposure to other cultures

• personal growth

• travel

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CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

CCSS.RI.8.2

CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

The Secret Language by Daisy Zamora is categorized under which literary genre?

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CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

I was 14 years old when I went to the States for the first time - the same age as my grandmother Ilse when she watched New Orleans fade into the distance from the deck of a steamship - and ever since then I've understood what it means to live in direct contact with a language through the people who speak it, through their culture, and through their vision of the world.

This excerpt allows the reader to experience how learning a new language impacted the author's understanding of the world by

• providing a love of literature.

• providing her with a cultural perspective.

• allowing her to watch cartoons and movies.

• teaching her English.

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

For me, that English lacked charm, instead sounding like the noise of my shoes crunching in the gravel of the schoolyard during recess.

What can we infer about the author's feelings about the sound of the English language?

• She rather enjoyed it.

• She learned to speak it during primary school.

• It was a beautiful sound.

• She found the sound to be annoying and unpleasant.

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

Sometimes it sounded like the trill of a bird, light and crystalline, and at other times flowed in dense, thick amber like honey. It would rise in high notes with the lonely, nostalgic sound of a flute, or swirl in a whirlpool like the frenzied crowds I imagined rushing around the streets of a big metropolis . . .

The authors applies which figurative language element in the excerpt.

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• idiom

• simile

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CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

Select the synonym for the underlined word that could replace it without changing the meaning.

Before long, my ears began to discern another way of speaking the language. It was not the cryptic and fantastic English full of attractions and mystery that I loved to listen to, nor the tiresome, repetitious one that sounded like a cart struggling over cobbled streets.

• repetitive

• hidden

• conclusion

• essential

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CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

When one of my cousins couldn't stand it anymore, she told me that I was a weirdo, that I spoke like a philosopher, some sort of Socrates or something, and asked me to make an effort to try to talk like normal people so I could make some friends.

The author's cousins' compared her to _______________.

• weirdo

• philosopher

• adults

• their friends.

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

Synonym for excluded

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CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

Synonym for captivated

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CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.8.4