The Boy Lincoln's Best Teacher
Night and Day
The Anything Art of Jimmie Lee Sudduth
All Alone in Dinosaur Hall
Strategies/
Text Structures
100
Why is the setting important to the passage?
C (His childhood home reveals the simple beginnings where Abraham Lincoln was raised)
100
As the blinding showers fall, As the rays diminish, Under evening’s cloak they all Roll away and vanish. Why does the poem refer to the evening having a cloak?
C (to suggest that the evening covers everything)
100
What was the author’s purpose in writing this article?
A (to describe the work of a famous artist)
100
Why are Ollie and his dad in the museum after it has closed?
H (Ollie’s dad is finishing some work)
100
Underline, circle, and use my coding STRATEGY
Close Reading
200
But in the centuries following the humble yet beautiful career of “the Backwoods Boy” from the hut to the White House, history keeps the whole world saying with bated breath, “the half was never told!” Which word has the same meaning as humble?
H (modest)
200
In the poem, how are night and day DIFFERENT?
I (Night makes the world seem to disappear, while day makes everything visible again)
200
When the author writes that Jimmie Lee Sudduth applies nature’s paints, she means that Sudduth is applying
C (sands, soils, and leaves)
200
Right in front of me was a new dinosaur! The scientists were putting the bones together. . . There was a big metal structure all around it for the scientists to climb on. What does the word structure mean?
F (frame)
200
Pictures, charts, timelines, bold words, etc What Strategy?
Text Features
300
How is this passage organized?
C (by describing childhood events that shaped Lincoln’s future)
300
Which pair of words used in the poem are similar in meaning?
F (glow, shine)
300
In the selection the author writes, “Many folk artists choose to show rural life through their art, but some also choose subjects from the city.” Which words have almost the same meaning as rural life?
C (life in the country)
300
What is the benchmark for question 15?
Compare and Contrast
300
The writer tell a series of events in more or less the exact order in which they occurred.
Chronological Order or Sequence of Events
400
It would be strange if her eyes did not fill, as she read to her fascinated family, but that was not the sort of thing the fondest mother could speak of. Knowing the base word of fondest helps the reader understand that Abe’s mother was
C (the most affectionate person in Abe’s family)
400
Here I see it glow with day Under glowing heaven. Every path and every plot, Every bush of roses, Every blue forget-me-not Where the dew reposes. Which phrase best expresses the description of the garden in the lines above?
G (the way the morning lights up the garden)
400
People send Jimmie Lee Sudduth unusual sand because
A (he uses the sand in his paintings)
400
The author says that the baby dinosaurs sound “like a bad day at school band practice” because
G (they make a dreadful noise)
400
The writer first describes a problem and then gives one or more solutions.
Problem and Solution
500
What is the main idea of this passage?
I (Abraham Lincoln’s mother contributed to his successful career)
500
Why is the garden important to the poem’s setting?
A (Night and day change the appearance of the garden)
500
What benchmark is question 2?
Main Idea
500
What is Ollie’s BIGGEST problem in the story?
H (He cannot find the baby dinosaurs he saw)
500
The writer explains how and why thing happen
Cause and Effect
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