Pages 137-138
Pages 139-140
Pages 141-143
General Questions
PSSA Questions
100
Identify where most of the events in the passage took place.
What is at Pedro's house?
100
Identify the vocabulary word on page 139 that means "upset or worried".
What is consternation?
100
True or False: Pedro decides to do a puppet show for his cultural report.
What is true?
100
Identify the story as real or make believe.
What is make believe?
100
Identify the word you would use to describe how Pedro feels when he says, "We inherited our skill from our abuelo. It runs in the family."
What is proud?
200
Define cultural heritage.
What is something passed down through your family from grandparents to parents to children?
200
Explain why Pedro was upset.
What is he is worried that he does not have an idea for the cultural heritage report?
200
Identify which vocabulary word means to think deeply.
What is pensive?
200
Identify the passage as fiction or nonfiction.
What is fiction?
200
True or false" Pedro's abuelo thinks that children should not be interested in their family's traditions.
What is false?
300
Identify where Raymond's mother is from.
What is Haiti?
300
Define titeres.
What are puppets?
300
Tell how the students in Pedro's class felt about his puppet show.
What is they really liked it?
300
Identify the author's purpose for writing the passage.
What is to entertain?
300
Explain what happens right after Pedro does his puppet show.
What is the class claps for Pedro and asks him questions?
400
Identify the setting on page 137.
What is Pedro's school?
400
Identify whose idea it was to use the puppets.
What is abuelo or grandfather?
400
Identify the vocabulary word on page 142 which means "begun".
What is commenced?
400
Identify Pedro's main problem in the passage.
What is he doesn't know what to do for his homework assignment?
400
Explain why Pedro's father does not like the first idea about having a mariachi band.
What is because he thinks it will be hard to find a band on short notice?
500
Fact or Opinion: "I think this project will be fun for everyone."
What is opinion?
500
Identify where the puppets were stored.
What is in a wooden chest in the attic?
500
Identify the genre of this passage.
What is a play?
500
Explain why Pedro's mother was worried about him.
Why is because he wasn't eating his dinner?
500
Explain why the author wrote this passage.
What is to tell a story about a boy who learns about his cultural heritage?
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