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Question Breakdown
Random Unit 1 Questions
Extended Writing
Mr. K
100

Enforce 

What is to compel observance of or obedience to? 

100

What is the theme of this story? Explain how Gordimer develops this theme through the story’s setting.  

What is Theme, Setting, Evidence

100

Best describes the purpose of "A Quilt of a Country"?

What is to show that America consists of different pieces that work together


100

Question Type 

What is a written response

100

Favorite Color

What is Royal Purple

200

Questioning Stance

What does the author think I already know?

200

What actions do the husband, wife, and their neighbors do again and again because of their fear of outsiders? How does this reveal the story’s theme?

What is the husband, wife, and neighbor's actions, and theme.

200

Best describes the purpose of "UNUSUAL NORMALITY "?

What is to explain how the past made the author appreciate his new life


200

Item needed

What is evidence

200

Favorite way to relax

What is Video Games

300

CONTRASTS AND CONTRADICTIONS

What is the presence of antonyms, or words with opposite meanings, in close proximity to one another 

300

How does the text structure—a personal essay—enable the author to deliver his message effectively? Explain your answer using examples from the text.

What is text structure, message, evidence

300

Describe "Unusual Normatily's" voice and tone

What is observant and detached?

Synonyms - Watchful, aware, distant, reserved 

300

T/F - there can be more than one

What is True

300

Birth State

What is Virginia

400

Authors Purpose 

What is the reason why an author writes a text, typically to inform, persuade, entertain, or explain something to the reader?

400

Think about the Memory Moments you noticed during this story. What skills and habits did the author learn as a child soldier that helped him both in New York and in the paintball game?

What is memory moments, skills, and habits, also mention New York and Paintball Game. 

400

The unfinished ending in "Once Upon a Time" 

What is the author does not reveal whether the boy lives or dies?

400

The extended metaphor from "A Quilt of a Country"

What is the United States being compared to a Quilt? 

400

How old am I 

What is 28 

500

Lesson Objective 

What is the skill I am being asked to accomplish on any given lesson? 

500

How can we come together despite our differences?  

What is together and differences?

500

Mentor Text for Personal Essay 

What is "Unusual Normality"?

500

Why is the Vietnam Wall being compared to a scar? 

What is both represent pain and suffering? 

500
Length of time at KIPP 

What is 3.5 years