CRM Unit 3.2 Remediation Questions

Select two ways the setting of the spaceship impacts the characters in the text. (R.1.1)

• The spaceship creates a means of escape from Professor Hugo’s zoo.

• The spaceship creates separation between the different groups of people.

• The spaceship allows the peoples of each planet to interact with one another.

• The spaceship allows the groups of people to capture new creatures to put in the zoo.

• The spaceship allows each group of people to experience a different species from afar.

1. Read these lines: “‘No,’ her mate answered. ‘There are bars to protect us from them. We remain right in the ship. Next time you must come with us. It is well worth the nineteen commocs it costs.' "(paragraph 13)

What is the significance of the irony used in this excerpt? (R.3.4)

• The irony exaggerates the creatures' need for protection on planet Earth.

• The irony reveals that the creatures had a similar perspective as the people of Earth.

• The irony allows the characters to reflect on what they learned from the experience.

• The irony compares the spaceship to a zoo because of the different types of creatures on board.

How does the setting of the planet of Kaan impact the plot of the text? (R.1.1)

• It allows the creatures to learn about the people of Earth.

• It allows the creatures to be freed from the spaceship’s zoo.

• It allows the creatures from Kaan to reveal their perspective on the zoo.

• It allows the creatures to be captured and taken to Earth on the spaceship.

Read Lines 18-19 from Subject to Change:

“that coarsens beautiful, blackmails young—

the two delusions we all move among.”

How does the poet’s choice to end the poem with these lines impact the meaning of the poem? (R.1.4)

• The ending reveals her fear that her students will age.

• The ending emphasizes her acceptance that everything changes in time.

• The ending reveals her fear that she will not have enough time with them.

• The ending emphasizes her belief that she only has a short amount of time with her students.

Which two themes are contrasted throughout the poem? (R.1.2)

• Youth and beauty are temporary.

• Being a student is a challenging time of life.

• Teachers are sometimes jealous of students’ beauty.

• Teachers must change their students into self-controlled young adults.

• Teachers care for their students during the brief time they teach them.

What is the meaning of the metaphor “it’s wrong / to think of them as anything but fiction” in Lines 13-14? (R.3.4)

• The speaker feels that she has been lied to by her students.

• The speaker feels guilty for getting attached to her students.

• The speaker feels confusion about the type of books her students read.

• The speaker feels that this version of her students is so short it's not real.

What is the effect of the phrase “And if their words don’t quite trip off the tongue / consistently, with just the right inflection, / they remain beautiful.” in Lines 10-12? (R.3.1)

• It establishes a tone of longing towards the speaker’s youth.

• It describes the adoration the speaker has toward her students.

• It illustrates how happy the speaker is about the connection she feels.

• It shifts the meaning to the frustration the speaker feels towards her students.

How does Text 1: “Zoo” address the topic of varied perspectives differently than Text 2: “Subject to Change”? (R.3.3)

• Text 1 provides multiple narrators to discuss how each character feels throughout the text.

• Text 1 describes how the speaker’s perspective changes towards other people using a first-person narrator.

• Text 1 uses dialogue to show the reader how the peoples’ perspectives are the same despite their differences.

• Text 1 shows the connections between characters through their interactions and descriptions from the perspective of the narrator.