Characters and Conflict
What is the vocab word for "affect someone in an important way."
What is influence?
What is the vocab word for "ability to recover quickly"?
What is Resilience?
What is the definition of generosity?
What is the willingness to give or share?
What is the vocab word for "continued, patient effort"?
What is perseverance?
What is the definition of connects.
What is joins together?
In “A Simple Act,” how do Laura and Maurice first meet?
Who is Maurice is begging on the street?
According to the selection from An Invisible Thread, what two things did Laura do for Maurice on the day they first met?
What are she bought him a meal in a restaurant and played some games with him?
Which of these statements best portrays Maurice and Laura’s relationship as presented in the selection from An Invisible Thread?
What is Laura and Maurice both benefited enormously from the relationship?
What is the “invisible thread” mentioned in “A Simple Act”?
What is the connection between two people?
In what two ways does the selection from An Invisible Thread expand on the information in “A Simple Act”?
Laura’s personal observations and captures her personality through her word choice and it shares Maurice’s view of and feelings about the day he met Laura
According to the selection from An Invisible Thread, what did Maurice ask Laura for on the day they met?
What is money?
What two characteristics of the selection from An Invisible Thread specifically show that it is written from the first-person point of view?
What is the author uses the pronoun I to refer to herself and the author is involved in the events being recounted?
In “A Simple Act,” what does sharing food most likely represent to Maurice?
What is an accepting family bond?
According to “A Simple Act,” in what way has Laura gained the most from her relationship with Maurice?
What is she feels that her existence has mattered?
What does “A Simple Act” explain that is not explained in the selection from An Invisible Thread?
What is the significance of the title An Invisible Thread
At the opening of the selection from An Invisible Thread, Maurice makes a toast to Laura. What best describes Maurice and Laura on that occasion?
Who is Maurice as a grown man, and Laura celebrating her fiftieth birthday?
Which statement best describes Laura’s relationship with the grown Maurice and his family, according to “A Simple Act”?
What is she has become like one of his relatives?
How does Laura mainly feel as she listens to Maurice’s toast in the selection from An Invisible Thread?
What is emotional?
In “A Simple Act,” what two things does Maurice’s time with Laura most clearly add to his life?
What is hope and security?
In what other way does the selection from An Invisible Thread expand on the information in “A Simple Act”?
What is it shares Maurice’s view of and feelings about the day he met Laura?
In “A Simple Act,” who at first seems to be the only other person besides Laura who believes that Maurice can better himself?
Who is Maurice's teacher?
According to the selection from An Invisible Thread, what main effect does Maurice believe Laura has had on him?
What is she changed the direction of his life?
In the selection from An Invisible Thread, what is one main difference in the points of view that Laura and Maurice express?
What is Maurice thinks he should be grateful to Laura, but Laura thinks she should be grateful to Maurice?
According to the selection from An Invisible Thread, in what main way did Maurice teach Laura about the gift of love?
What is giving Laura someone to love?
What does the selection from An Invisible Thread show that “A Simple Act” is unable to show because of the difference in point of view?
What are Laura’s actual feelings?