Pages 86-89
Pages 90-93
Pages 94-98
General Questions
PSSA Questions
100
Identify the genre of the passage.
What is a narrative poem?
100
Find an example of personification on page 90.
What is, " Clusters of fireflies dancing 'round my head"?
100
Identify where Zuri spent her Fourth of July.
What is on a boardwalk by the beach?
100
Identify the poem as real or make believe.
What is make believe?
100
"Ten times" is an example of ____.
What is alliteration?
200
Explain the main reason why Danitra suggests all the summer activites to Zuri.
What is to show Zuri all the things she can do during summer vacation?
200
Explain what Danitra is going to miss on page 91.
What is the block party with lots of music?
200
Explain how Danitra felt about her family reunion.
What is she was happy to be part of a family?
200
Identify the poem as fiction or nonfiction.
What is fiction?
200
The following sentence is an example of ____. "My mom is a butterfly while shopping in the store."
What is a metaphor?
300
Explain how Zuri feels when Danitra asks her to come to station to see her off.
What is angry?
300
Identify the word that means "laughed" on page 93.
What is snickered?
300
Explain how you know Zuri is jealous of Danitra's trip.
What is because she makes a list of dream places she'd like to visit?
300
Identify the author's purpose for writing the passage.
What is to entertain?
300
This sentence is an example of ____. "and the sky!..like a thick overcoat all buttoned up with stars."
What is a simile?
400
Explain how Zuri's feelings changed after she played handball with Nina.
What is she felt better and thought that the summer might not be such a bore?
400
Explain why Danitra refuses to jump from the tree.
What is she knows it is too dangerous?
400
Explain what the poem is mostly about.
What is about two friends who spend the summer apart from each other?
400
Contrast one way the girls' summer vacation was different.
What is ___. Teacher will decide.
400
Identify the type of figurative language in which something that is not human acts like a human.
What is personification?
500
Explain how you can tell this is a narrative poem.
What is because it tells story?
500
Explain why Danitra compares the night sky to an overcoat.
What is because both are comforting or both are black and blue?
500
Identify how Danitra and Zuri feel at the end of the passage.
What is happy to be back together?
500
Compare the girls' vacation and identify one way it was alike.
What is __. Teacher will decide.
500
Find an example of personification on page 91.
What is, "that hot, hot beat sizzles up through the sidewalk grabbing hold of my feet"?
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