Feathers
What does the victim mean when they say “Your words soiled my good name?”
A. The woman’s rumor involved the victim’s name.
B. The woman’s rumor damaged the victim’s reputation.
C. The woman emphasized the victim’s name when she spoke.
D. The woman’s rumor identified the victim by name.
B. The woman’s rumor damaged the victim’s reputation.
Based on the text, what do you think it means to “knead” dough?
To work the dough by stretching, rolling, and flattening it to develop the protein network.
Which is a parallelogram? (Pictures present in post assessment.)
A. A trapezoid
B. A rhombus
B. A rhombus
The following ordered pairs show the height of a typical meerkat at different times during the first 20 months of life. Graph the corresponding points and see what you can discover about meerkats. Once you have graphed them all, connect the points in the order they are given to form a line graph.
(0 months, 3 inches)
(2 months, 5 inches)
(4 months, 6 inches)
(6 months, 7 inches)
(8 months, 8 inches)
(10 months, 9 inches)
(12 months, 10 inches)
(14 months, 12 inches)
(16 months, 12 inches)
(18 months, 12 inches)
(20 months, 12 inches)
Check answers/line graph on coordinate plane paper.
Find the volume of the figure. (Picture present in post assessment.)
V = 16 units3
Based on the story, how is starting a rumor comparable/alike to cutting a feather pillow?
A. Both events helped the woman make up for things that she failed to do.
B. Both events caused the rabbi to forgive the woman for her crime.
C. Both events scattered things that could no longer be retrieved.
D. Both events allowed the woman to make changes in her life.
C. Both events scattered things that could no longer be retrieved.
How are the flour proteins glutenins and gliadins important to making bread?
A. They give bread its taste.
B. They kill bad bacteria in bread.
C. They make dough stretchy and soft.
D. They cause dough to release gasses and rise.
C. They make dough stretchy and soft.
Decide which statement is always, sometimes, or never true.
1. A rhombus is a quadrilateral _________________.
2. A triangle is a parallelogram _________________.
3. A rhombus is a square ________________.
1. Always.
2. Never.
3. Sometimes.
According to the graph, how tall is a meerkat when it is 10 months old?
9 inches
Find the volume of the rectangular prism. (Picture present in post assessment.)
V = 36 inches3
Which quotation provides evidence for your previous answer?
A. “‘My words were spread by others, and so I am not to blame.’” (paragraph 1)
B. “The wind carried them here and there” (paragraph 6)
C. “‘and that will take away my guilt.’” (paragraph 3)
D. “She returned to the rabbi with only a few feathers in her hand.” (paragraph 7)
D. “She returned to the rabbi with only a few feathers in her hand.” (paragraph 7)
Which quote from the text best explains why it is important to knead mixed flour and water?
A. “You have turned flour and water into dough.” (paragraph 2)
B. “You can turn it into almost any shape.” (paragraph 2)
C. “But if you leave the dough alone, those networks relax.” (paragraph 5)
D. “The stiffer and more rubbery the dough becomes.” (paragraph 5)
D. “The stiffer and more rubbery the dough becomes.” (paragraph 5)
It is 3:32 p.m. and Emma has a gymnastic lesson at 6:00 p.m. How many minutes are there until Emma’s practice?
A. 96 minutes
B. 148 minutes
C. 267 minutes
D. 348 minutes
D. 148 minutes.
Between which two months did the meerkat grow the most (the steepest jump on the graph)?
Between 0 and 2 months (it grew 2 inches) and between 12 and 14 months (it also grew 2 inches).
Plot the points on the line plot.
1/4, 1/2, 3/8, 3/8, 3/8, 3/8, 4/8, 5/8, 5/8, 5/8, 8/8, 8/8, 8/8
Check answers/line graph on line plot paper.
Using at least one quotation from the text to support your answer, express the theme of the story.
Something along the lines of:
Once words are spoken, the damage they cause is irreversible and impossible to take back.
“I could not take back the feathers any more than I could take back my words.”
According to the text, what common household object is the "stretchy network" of proteins compared to?
A net made out of rubber bands.
Cari is the lead architect for the city’s new aquarium. All of the tanks in the aquarium will be rectangular prisms where the side lengths are whole numbers.
Cari’s first tank is 4 feet wide, 8 feet long and 5 feet high. How many cubic feet of water can her tank hold?
A. 160 cubic feet
B. 90 cubic feet
C. 240 cubic feet
D. 180 cubic feet
A. 160 cubic feet
Looking at the line graph from month 14 to month 20, what do you notice about the line, and what does this tell you about the meerkat's growth?
The line becomes flat/horizontal. This tells us the meerkat has reached its full adult height and stopped growing.
Based on the points we plotted, which one appears the most?
1/4, 1/2, 3/8, 3/8, 3/8, 3/8, 4/8, 5/8, 5/8, 5/8, 8/8, 8/8, 8/8
3/8 (It appears four times).
At the beginning of the story, who does the woman blame for the rumor, and how does her perspective change by the end?
Initially, she blames "others" who spread her words; by the end, she realizes she is responsible because she cannot control the "flight of words" once she speaks them.
Using evidence from the text, what would happen to a loaf of bread if the flour contained glutenins but was missing gliadins?
The dough would be like a rubber ball, and the resulting bread would be dense and hard. (The text states that without gliadins, there is nothing to help the dough "flow and soften").
Shauna buys a three-foot-long sandwich for a party. She then cuts the sandwich into pieces, with each piece being 12 inches long. How many pieces does she get?
A. 9 pieces
B. 6 pieces
C. 3 pieces
D. 12 pieces
C. 3 pieces
If the trend from months 0 to 12 continued exactly the same way, would the meerkat be taller or shorter than 12 inches at month 14?
Shorter. From months 4 to 12, the meerkat grows 1 inch every 2 months. Following that "1-inch" pattern, it would only be 11 inches at month 14, but the data shows it actually had a "growth spurt" to 12 inches.
On a line plot, which whole number would you place the marks for the fraction 8/8?
1.