"Brothers at Bat"

What is this story mostly about?

• the history of baseball

• how brothers grow closer together

• a baseball team made up of brothers

• what people can learn from playing sports

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CCSS.RL.3.9

CCSS.RL.4.2

CCSS.RL.4.9

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CCSS.RL.5.9

What do readers mainly learn from the beginning of the story?

• how the Acerra sisters felt about sports

• what daily life was like for the Acerra family

• what the Acerras did during the winter months

• how the Acerras usually got along with their neighbors

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CCSS.RF.2.4C

CCSS.RF.3.4C

CCSS.RI.3.1

CCSS.RL.3.1

CCSS.RL.3.2

How many brothers were in the family?

• 8

• 12

• 16

• 6

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CCSS.2.OA.C.4

Why did they call Anthony, "Poser"?

• it rhymed with "Loser"

• he was the oldest

• he could hit the baseball into the ocean

• he would pose like a pro player on a baseball card

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CCSS.RF.3.4C

CCSS.RI.3.1

CCSS.RL.2.1

CCSS.RL.3.1

CCSS.RL.3.2

Why did the team stop playing for a while during the 1940s?

• Six of the brothers went off to fight in the Second World War.

• The brothers wanted to spend time at the World’s Fair in New York.

• The brothers were not getting along, so they decided to take a break.

• Some of the brothers had gotten other jobs, so there were not enough players

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CCSS.RI.2.2

CCSS.RI.3.2

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How did the Acerra brothers make history?

• They were the best baseball players in the world and never lost.

• They were the longest playing all-brother team ever.

• Two of them died in World War 2.

• Alfred lost his eye.

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CCSS.RI.4.9

CCSS.RI.5.9

CCSS.RI.6.2

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CCSS.RL.5.2

In 1997 the Football Hall of Fame had a ceremony to honor the Acerra family just like Cam Newton.

• True

• False

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CCSS.RI.1.9

CCSS.RI.2.9

CCSS.RI.3.9

CCSS.RI.5.7

CCSS.RL.4.7

If a group ---------, its members no longer work together.

• disappeared

• disbanded

• displayed

• discovered

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CCSS.RI.2.4

CCSS.RI.3.4

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RL.3.4

CCSS.RL.4.4

A ---------- is all the people in a family, social group, or country that are about the same age.

• general

• ginger

• generator

• generation

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CCSS.RF.2.3E

CCSS.RF.2.4

CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.3.3C

CCSS.RF.3.3D

The room was ________________ with toys and needed to be cleaned up.

• littered

• disbanded

• soared

• generations

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CCSS.RI.2.4

CCSS.RI.3.4

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