Wednesday Wars April

Holling said, this was "the kind of stuff that makes you hope that you are never alone in the locker room with the other guys on your team." To what is he referring?

• rats

• being a 7th grader on varsity cross country

• dating Meryl Lee

• his father's passion for business

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

Holling says he and Meryl Lee would look at one another and know what the other was thinking, even though they wouldn't say it.  He compared it to...

• Romeo and Juliet

• Macbeth and Macduff

• Julius Caesar and Mark Antony

• Jim Hawkins and Captain Flint

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CCSS.RI.5.7

CCSS.RI.6.7

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.9

CCSS.RL.7.7

Mr. Hoodhood looked grim and said, "We are coming apart."  Why?

• He was talking about the US because Martin Luther King was killed.

• He thought the country would fall because Walter Cronkite retired.

• He meant the Hoodhood family was falling apart because Holling's sister refused to come out of her room.

• He referred to his company losing money over the junior high building project.

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

What happened when Holling ran in the varsity race?

• He won.

• Meryl Lee kissed him.

• The coach went beserk.

• all of these

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.9

What news did Meryl Lee share with Holling in April?

• She might be moving.

• Her parents were getting a divorce.

• They couldn't be friends anymore due to their fathers' rivalry.

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CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

Who took Holling to Opening Day at Yankee Stadium?

• Mr. Hoodhood

• Mr. Hupfer

• Mrs. Baker

• Mr. Kowalski

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.9

How did Holling get past the eighth graders in order to win the cross-country meet at Salisbury Park?

• He went around them and off the trail.

• He tripped them.

• He took a shortcut.

• He didn't get past them and lost the race.

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.9

Mr. Hoodhood not showing up for Holling on Opening Day is an example of which signpost?

• Again and Again

• Memory Moment

• Contrasts and Contradictions

• Tough Questions

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CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

Mr. Hoodhood's response to Holling's sister going to college shows that he is protective of her.

• True

• False

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CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

Where does Holling's sister announce she is going to college?

• Harvard

• Yale

• Columbia

• NYU

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.9