Part B: Which additional quotation from "Two Kinds" best supports the answer to Part A/

"You want me to be someone that I'm not!" I sobbed. "I'll never be the kind of daughter you want me to be!"

In all of my imaginings, I was filled with a sense that I would soon become perfect

It was as if I knew, without a doubt, that the prodigy side of me really did exist. I had no fear whatsoever, no nervousness.

I felt the shame of my mother and father as they sat stiffly throughout the rest of the show.

From which point of view is "Two Kinds" written?

first person, from the daughter's point of view

first person, from the mother's point of view

third person, from the daughter's point of view

third person, from the mother's point of view

Part A: Which statement best sums up the theme, or message, of "Two Kinds"?

Accepting oneself can be more important than success

Determination is more important than genius

A happy family requires obedient children

A parent's expectations inspire a child's achievements

Part B: Which quotation from "Two Kinds" best supports the answer to Part A?

For unlike my mother, I did not believe I could be anything I wanted to be. I could only be me.

"Of course, you can be prodigy, too," my mother told me when I was nine. "You can be best anything."

"Only two kinds of daughters," she shouted. "Those who are obedient and those who follow their own mind!"

A few years ago, she offered to give me the piano, for my thirtieth birthday. I had not played in all those years.

Read this passage. Here, the narrator explains how she began reacting to her mother's quizzes. I had new thoughts, willful thoughts, or rather thoughts filled with lots of won'ts. I won't let her change me, I promised myself. I won't be what I'm not! So now on nights when my mother presented her tests, I performed listlessly, my head propped on one arm. I pretended to be bored. Which sentence best explains what drives or motivates, the narrator to act bored?

She decides that she will not be pushed into becoming a prodigy.

She feels like a failure when she doesn't know the answers to the tests

She realizes that learning piano is more interesting than taking tests.

She believes that the tests represent her mother's anger at her.

Read this sentence from "Two Kinds." Here, the narrator explains that she has continued to disappoint her mother. In the years that followed, I failed her so many times, each time asserting my own will, my right to fall short of expectations. What perspective does this comment reveal about the narrator?

Disappointing her mother was unavoidable but devastating

She desperately wanted to overcome failure.

Failure became a way for her to express her independence.

Her mother's expectations served as a warning to her

Which sentence contains both a common noun and a proper noun?

Sara was tired of trying to please her demanding mother.

The ambitious mother wanted her daughter to be a prodigy.

Susan thought Yolanda was more talented than Janelle.

The deaf teacher could not hear his student playing.

Read the following sentence. Mike wanted Mike's mother to help Samantha and her friend prepare for the talent show. Choose the sentence that correctly replaces a noun in this sentence with a possessive pronoun without changing the original meaning.

Mike wanted his mother to help Samantha and her friend prepare for the talent show.

He wanted Mike's mother to help Samantha and her friend prepare for the talent show.

Mike wanted Mike's mother to help Samantha and Samantha's friend prepare for the talent show.

Mike wanted Mike's mother to help Samantha and her friend prepare for it.

The word competent means "able to do a specific job correctly." The word incompetent is formed by adding the Latin prefix in-to the word competent. Based on your knowledge of in-, choose the most likely meaning on incompetent.

lacking the qualities needed to do something well

capable of doing many different jobs

having a set of skills that apply to various tasks

unable to maintain focus for long periods of time

Which pair of definitions is most likely to be accurate? Base your answers on your knowledge of the Latin prefix in-.

If adequate means "average; sufficient; just enough," then inadequate means "not enough."

If solvent means "having money to pay one's bills," then insolvent means "having more than enough money."

If consolable means "able to be comforted," then inconsolable means "able to give comfort to others."

If comprehensible means "understandable," then incomprehensible means "easily understood."

Two Kinds

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RL.6.3, RF.4.3A, RL.4.3

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Two Kinds

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In "Two Kinds" what does the mother hope for her daughter?

What does the daughter realize when she becomes angry at her reflection in the mirror?

Which statement best explains why the daughter in "Two Kinds" develops a negative attitude toward her mother's quizzes?

Which of the following is the best definition for lamented?

Which situation most clearly shows an example of squabbling? Base your choice on the meaning of squabbling.

Which situation would most likely cause a person to feel devastated? Base your choice on the meaning of devastated.

Part A: In "Two Kinds" the mother arranges for the daughter to have piano lessons. The daughter gives the following response,"Why don't you like me the way I am? I'm not a genius.

Part B: Which additional quotation from "Two Kinds" best supports the answer to Part A/

From which point of view is "Two Kinds" written?

In "Two Kinds," which character trait do the daughter and mother share?

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Part A: In "Two Kinds" the mother arranges for the daughter to have piano lessons. The daughter gives the following response,
"Why don't you like me the way I am? I'm not a genius.