Seedfolks Final Review

Why does Kim plant lima beans?

• She wants to show her father, who passed away, that she can be a hard worker.
• She wants to make something in memory of her dad.
• She likes to eat lima beans.
• She likes to grow things. 

Tags

CCSS.RI.2.1

CCSS.RI.3.1

CCSS.RL.1.1

CCSS.RL.2.1

CCSS.RL.3.1

Why does Ana talk in detail about what the neighborhood is like? 

• She enjoys the company of her neighbors.
• She doesn't like kids. 
• She wants the reader to understand what the neighborhood was like before and how it has become so divided. 
• She wants to tell the reader how she is a detective. 

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

What does Ana think Kim is doing in the garden? 

• planting vegetables
• planting fruit 
• planting a treasure 
• hiding drugs, money, or a gun 

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

What does Wendell do for a job? 

• a janitor at a school 
• a fast food worker 
• a teacher 
• a bus driver 

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CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

What does Wendell mean by the saying, "and the little child shall lead them?" 

• Ana is the leader of a small group of children. 
• The little child was Ana and she helped Wendell see that he could change something too. 
• Ana led Wendell to the garden. 
• Children are better at leading than adults.

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

What does Gonzalo refer to by saying, "the older you are the younger you become when you move to the United States"? 

• His uncle, Tio Juan, is only 5 years old.
• When people don't know English and they move to the United States, they feel like children and have to learn all over again.
• He feels younger than anyone else in the neighborhood. 
• Everyone is older in the United States than in other countries. 

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

What helps Tio Juan change from a baby back into a man?

• He is able to plant something familiar in the garden.

• A Genie in a bottle grants him one wish.

• He moves back to Guatemala. 
• Gonzalo introduces him to another adult who speaks Spanish.

What does Leona plant and why does she plant it? 

• Nutmeg - to help heal people
• Sunflowers - she thought they were beautiful
• Grain - it has a lot of nutrients in it
• Goldenrod - in memory of her granny

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.9

CCSS.RI.6.2

CCSS.RI.7.2

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.6.2

Sam is a pacifist. What does this mean?

• He does not believe in violence or war.

• He likes to surf in the Pacific Ocean.

• He is friendly.

• He likes to bring people together.

What is the importance of the locket Virgil finds? 

• The picture of the little girl in the locket reminds Virgil of a friend he had in Haiti. 
• The locket belongs to his mother who passed away a few years earlier. 

• Virgil thinks the girl is pretty and wears it.
• He sees a similarity to the goddess of crops and thinks that perhaps the little girl could help with his father's lettuce.