CCSS.ELA.Content.RL.6.2

The Hard Way Out by Terry Vaughn  
In this novel, Brian struggles with living at his Aunt's house and sharing a room with his cousin while dealing with the grief of having lost both of his parents in a tragic car accident. Basketball is his only escape, but after geting benched for low progress report grades, Brian' world shatters. Does he have it in him to turn around his grades? Will Brian come to peace with his emotions? Can anyone help him?

• biography
• science fiction
• realistic fiction
• historical ficiton

Tags

CCSS.ELA.Content.RL.6.2

Mr. Bueller is a teacher who seems to be a kind person.  He guessed that Victor was trying to impress Teresa when the boy said he could speak French.  Mr. Bueller had tried to impress a girl he dated when he was in college.  Because he understood what Victor was feeling, he didn’t embarrass the boy in front of Teresa.

• arrogant
• compassionate
• belligerent
• cantankerous

Tags

CCSS.ELA.Content.RL.6.2

What is a summary?

• a short explanation of a text
• a persuasive argument about a text
• a movie based off of a book
• a theme or universal lesson

Tags

CCSS.ELA.Content.RL.6.2

Main Idea/ Details
At the end of The Circuit, what do the cardboard boxes mean to Panchito?

• He will have to stop going to school and move again.
• He has not been working hard enough in the fields.
• It is Roberto's turn to go to school
• The officials have found out that Roberto does not go to school.

Tags

CCSS.ELA.Content.RL.6.2

Theme is the author's 

• story
• message
• characters
• setting

Tags

CCSS.ELA.Content.RL.6.2

Summaries should be _______________ statements of the most important facts in the story.

• objective
• subjective

Tags

CCSS.ELA.Content.RL.6.2

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Excerpt
By Roald Dahl
Charlie Bucket stared around the gigantic room in which he now found himself. The place was like a witch’s kitchen! All about him black metal pots were boiling and bubbling on huge stoves, and kettles were hissing and pans were sizzling,and strange iron machines were clanking and spluttering, and there were pipes running all over the ceiling and walls, and the whole place was filled with smoke and steam and delicious rich smells. Mr. Wonka himself had suddenly become even more excited than usual, and anyone could see that this was the room he loved best of all. He was hopping about among the saucepans and the machines like a child among his Christmas presents, not knowing which thing to look at first. He lifted the lid from a huge pot and took a sniff; then he rushed over and dipped a finger into a barrel of sticky yellow stuff and had a taste; then he skipped across to one of the machine sand turned half a dozen knobs this way and that; then he peered anxiously through the glass door of a gigantic oven,rubbing his hands and cackling with delight at what he saw inside. Then he ran over to another machine, a small shiny affair that kept going phut-phut-phut-phut-phut, and every time it went phut, a large green marble dropped out of it into a basket on the floor.
What is the main idea?

• Charlie’s discovery of the gigantic room
• the boiling pots and kettles
• seeing the machine that makes green candy
• to learn about the room through Mr.Wonka’s excitement and discoveries

Tags

CCSS.ELA.Content.RL.6.2

Does the meaning of the text change when you write an objective summary?

• No, it's shorter but has the same meaning.
• Yes, of course the meaning changes because someone else is writing it.
• It depends on the material and who originally wrote it. 

Tags

CCSS.ELA.Content.RL.6.2

The life lesson that we learn in this novel, in this case, one is that "nothing gold can stay", is known as the

• theme
• subject
• characterization
• climax

Tags

CCSS.ELA.Content.RL.6.2

Read the following sentence.
A woman risks her life to spy for the Union during the Civil War.

The sentence above is an example of a

• plot
• character
• main idea
• theme

Tags

CCSS.ELA.Content.RL.6.2