Comprehension
What instrument does the daughter play?
What is the piano?
The meaning of the Latin prefix -in-
What is not?
The narrator is a character in the story and uses the pronouns "I" and "me" when describing the story.
What is first-person point of view?
A generic person, place, or thing. Please provide an example of each (person, place, and thing).
What is a common noun?
First person, second person, and third person singular pronouns.
What is I, you, she/he/they/it?
This is what the mother wants for her daughter.
What is to be a prodigy (have a special talent)?
This word means "lacking harmony"
What is discordant?
The narrator is NOT a character in the story and uses the pronouns "he" and "she" when describing the story.
What is third-person point of view?
A specific person, place, or thing. Please provide an example for each (person, place, and thing).
What is a proper noun?
Identify the reflexive pronoun in the following sentence:
"As an only child, I frequently kicked the ball to myself."
What is myself?
This is the theme of "Two Kinds".
What is learn to accept who you are as a person rather than focusing on what other people think success looks like?
Two students were ____________ about who should stand first in line.
What is squabbling?
"For unlike my mother, I did not believe I could be anything I wanted to be. I could only be me."
This is from which point of view?
What is first-person point of view?
Identify the possessive noun in the following sentence:
"Oakley went to Oscar's house to return his mountain bike."
What is Oscar's?
Identify the possessive pronoun in the following sentence:
"Oakley went to Oscar's house to return his mountain bike."
What is his?
This is what happens to the piano.
What is she has it tuned and then her mother gifts it to her?
The prefix of the word is -re-, and the definition of the word is "disapproval; criticism"
What is reproach?
This is the point of view that "Two Kinds" by Amy Tan is from.
What is first-person point of view?
Identify all of the proper nouns in this sentence:
"Eve went for a run and passed Normal Park, a Subaru car, and the cafe "The Daily Ration"."
What is Eve, Normal Park, Subaru, and The Daily Ration.
Correctly identify the personal pronoun and the object pronoun in the following sentence:
"He threw the ball to her."
What is personal pronoun (he) and object pronoun (her)?
What does the narrator learn about herself at the end of the story?
That she has the power to be who she wants, not who her mother wants her to be.
The root is -ment-, and the definition is "expressed regret"
What is lamented?
This type of point of view is where the narrator is NOT a character in the story, and they tell the story without knowing all of the details. The narrator only tells the story with knowledge of some characters thoughts and POV.
What is third-person limited point of view?
Identify all of the common nouns in this sentence:
"Eve went for a run and Normal Park, a Subaru car, and the cafe "The Daily Ration"."
What is car & cafe.
Correctly identify the personal, possessive, reflexive, and object pronouns in the following sentence:
"She went to move her seat because she would rather sit by herself than with him."
What is... personal pronoun (she), possessive pronoun (her), reflexive pronoun (herself), object pronoun (him).