🎯⏱️The Daily 15 : Characterization; Defining Unknown Words; Applying Standard English Grammar

1. Which example best shows indirect characterization?

• Max was a gifted musician.
• Vera looked as if a strong gust of wind might carry her away.
• Math came easily to Mary, as it did to her mother, her grandmother, and all of Wilson women before them.
• Too lazy to actually reach for it, Marty just stared wishfully at the TV remote.

2. Based on these sentences, describe Paul in one word. As soon as the groups were announced, Paul took charge. "Kylie and I will do the research, and Eduardo can make the poster. Any questions?"

3. What inference can be made about the narrator?

• The narrator is frustrated.
• The narrator is gifted.
• The narrator is uninterested.
• The narrator is lazy.

4. Which quotation supports the inference from #3?

• "...Uncle Fred tried to teach me ‘‘The Bells Are Ringing’’ on Grandma Wilson’s piano in our living room. That was it—just one song."
• "Uncle Fred pressed on like a general directing a wayward army."
• "I was a failure. Uncle Fred knew it. I knew it. Even the piano knew it."
• "I would hover over the keyboard, pumping away at the pedals."

5. What character trait describes Uncle Fred?

6. Which quotation best supports #5?

• "I was a failure. Uncle Fred knew it. I knew it. Even the piano knew it."
• "I would hover over the keyboard, pumping away at the pedals, and Uncle Fred would sit in the straight-back beside me."
• "...we never realized how my wild fingers slashing at the black and white keys might be getting on Daddy’s nerves."
• "Despite this, Uncle Fred pressed on like a general directing a wayward army."

7. When our debate team went to state and won, they brought a lot of prestige to our school. The enrollment in the debate program increased substantially, and several businesses made donations to the school. What is the meaning of the word "prestige" as it is used in the passage?

• loyalty
• wealth
• respect
• strength

8. Which type of context clue did you use to help you understand the word "prestige?"

• definition
• synonym
• antonym
• example
• inference

9. Identify the simple subject. Everest is the highest mountain in the world.

• world
• Everest
• mountain
• highest

10. Identify the simple subject. Oxygen grows thin beyond the mountain's base.

• grows
• base
• thin
• Oxygen