Race or Face?
Draw the organizer that you would need:
Based on the article, describe the problems that Voyager’s team faced before and during the flight. Support your answer with important details from the article.
Open Response: Race
The article states that “dirt is amazing stuff!” Based on the article, explain why dirt is so important. Support your answer with important details from the article.
What makes dirt amazing?
Based on the article, explain what people thought of Louis Braille. Support your answer with important details from the article.
People had a lot of feelings about Louis Braille
Yowl, quack splat, splash, boom, hoot
Onomatopoeia
What type of figurative language is this? Bonus 50pts, tell me what it means!
The shop was a gold mine
Metaphor
bonus: the shop makes a lot of money.
Draw the graphic organizer for this question:
Based on the play “Stone Soup”, write a story about what would happen next in the story. Use what you know about the characters, setting and events to help you write your story.
Narrative-FACE
Imagine what the story would be like from the seal’s point of view. Consider how it would be different from the story you read. Rewrite the story to tell it from the seal’s point of view.
Rewrite the story you just read from the seals point of view
The article states that “dirt is amazing stuff!” Based on the article, explain why dirt is so important. Support your answer with important details from the article.
The article explains reasons why dirt is amazing stuff.
What is the example of figurative language in the sentence?
50 point bonus- what is the name of the type of figurative language?
My mom won the Powerball, she was such a lucky lady!
Lucky Lady
bonus: alliteration
Metaphor or Simile?
He is a shining star
Metaphor
Based on “Hiding Out”, write a story that tells the events from Polo’s point of view. Use what you know about the characters, setting, and events from the passage to write your story.
FACE
In the poem “The Photograph”, Mama and speaker, who is her son, look at photographs from the past. A.) Explain why the photographs are important to Mama. B.) Explain why the photographs are important to the speaker, her son. Support your answer with important details from the poem.
1. Why are the photos important to Mama?
2. Why are the photos important to the speaker- her son?
Based on the article, what do Fenway Park workers do to help fans have an enjoyable experience at the ballpark? Support your answer with important details from the article.
Fenway Park workers help fans have an enjoyable experience at the ballpark.
What type of figurative language is this? Bonus 50pts, tell me what it means!
It took a million years for Thomas to finish his homework!
a million years= hyperbole
it means that it took him a long time.
What type of figurative language is this? Bonus 50pts, tell me what it means!
Elsa's heart was as cold as ice.
simile
bonus: Elsa doesn't care
Based on the article, describe the challenges Annie Smith Peck faced throughout her life. Support your answer with important details from the article.
Open Response- Race
Write an essay that describes how the friendship between Owen and Mzee is different from the relationship between mongooses and hornbills. Use examples from both articles to support your conclusions.
Compare and contrasting: Owen and Mzee and Mongooses and hornbills.
According to the folktale, explain how the emperor chooses the next emperor. Support your answer with important details from the folktale.
The emperor has the responsibility to choose the next emperor.
What type of figurative language is this? Bonus 50pts, tell me what it means!
Don't let the cat out of the bag?
cat out of the bag= idiom
Bonus= don't tell the secret
What type of figurative language is this? Bonus 50pts, tell me what it means!
My teacher is a dragon.
metaphor
bonus: my teacher is really mean
Based on the article and the folktale, explain how fear can affect people.Support your answer with important details from the article and the details from the folktale.
RACE
In “Those Wacky Shoes” a girl has to outsmart a pair of shoes. Think about the details the author uses to create the characters, setting and events. Imagine that you, the girl in the story, find a pair of wacky shoes and what happens to you when you’re wearing them. Use what you have learned about the wacky shoes when writing your story.
You find a pair of wacky shoes, write a story about what happens to you while you are wearing them.
Write an essay that describes how the friendship between Owen and Mzee is different from the relationship between mongooses and hornbills. Use examples from both articles to support your conclusions.
The friendship between Owen and Mzee is different than the relationship between mongooses and hornbills.
What type of figurative language is this? Bonus 50pts, tell me what it means!
The car complained as the key was roughly turned in its ignition.
personifcation
Bonus: the car didn't want to turn on/ it made a strange noise
My dad's truck is as big as an elephant!
My dad's truck is the size of an elephant.