Open Up - Grade 6 - ELA - Module 1 - Homework 2

Reread each passage from chapter 2 of The Lightning Thief. Then answer the question(s) below the passage.“I started feeling cranky and irritable most of the time.”What word in this sentence best helps in understanding the meaning of irritable? (RL.6.4, L.6.4a)

• feeling
• cranky
• most
• started

Tags

L.6.4.a

RL.6.4

“All three women looked ancient, with pale faces wrinkled like fruit leather, silver hair tied back in white bandanas, bony arms sticking out of bleached cotton dresses.”Which words in this sentence do not help in understanding the meaning of ancient? (RL.6.4, L.6.4)

• wrinkled like fruit leather
• silver hair
• bony arms
• white bandanas

“I remembered Mr. Brunner’s serious expression, his thousand-year-old eyes. I will accept only the best from you, Percy Jackson.”Use a print or online dictionary. Copy the meaning of the word expression as it is used in this sentence. (L.6.4c, L.6.4d, L.6.6)

Tags

L.6.4.d

L.6.4.c

RL.6.6

How did you determine the definitions of the unfamiliar words? Explain what strategies you used to answer these vocabulary questions.