Race or Face?
What is the question asking?
Restate or Bust
Figure out the Language
Your comparing what??
100

Draw the organizer that you would need:

Based on the article, describe the problems that Voyager’s team faced before and during the flight.  Support your answer with important details from the article.

Open Response: Race

100

The article states that “dirt is amazing stuff!”  Based on the article, explain why dirt is so important. Support your answer with important details from the article.  

What makes dirt amazing?

100

Based on the article, explain what people thought of Louis Braille.  Support your answer with important details from the article.

People had a lot of feelings about Louis Braille

100
The following words are all examples of what type of figurative language?


Yowl, quack splat, splash, boom, hoot

Onomatopoeia

100

What type of figurative language is this? Bonus 50pts, tell me what it means!

The shop was a gold mine

Metaphor


bonus: the shop makes a lot of money.

200

Draw the graphic organizer for this question:

Based on the play “Stone Soup”, write a story about what would happen next in the story.  Use what you know about the characters, setting and events to help you write your story.

Narrative-FACE

200

Imagine what the story would be like from the seal’s point of view.  Consider how it would be different from the story you read. Rewrite the story to tell it from the seal’s point of view.

Rewrite the story you just read from the seals point of view

200

The article states that “dirt is amazing stuff!”  Based on the article, explain why dirt is so important. Support your answer with important details from the article.  

The article explains reasons why dirt is amazing stuff. 

200

What is the example of figurative language in the sentence?

 50 point bonus- what is the name of the type of figurative language?

My mom won the Powerball, she was such a lucky lady! 

Lucky Lady

bonus: alliteration 

200

Metaphor or Simile?


He is a shining star

Metaphor

300

Based on “Hiding Out”, write a story that tells the events from Polo’s point of view.  Use what you know about the characters, setting, and events from the passage to write your story.  

FACE

300

In the poem “The Photograph”, Mama and speaker, who is her son, look at photographs from the past.  A.) Explain why the photographs are important to Mama.  B.) Explain why the photographs are important to the speaker, her son. Support your answer with important details from the poem.

1. Why are the photos important to Mama?

2. Why are the photos important to the speaker- her son?

300

Based on the article, what do Fenway Park workers do to help fans have an enjoyable experience at the ballpark?  Support your answer with important details from the article.  

Fenway Park workers help fans have an enjoyable experience at the ballpark.

300

What type of figurative language is this? Bonus 50pts, tell me what it means!

 It took a million years for Thomas to finish his homework!

a million years= hyperbole


it means that it took him a long time. 

300

What type of figurative language is this? Bonus 50pts, tell me what it means!

Elsa's heart was as cold as ice. 

simile

bonus: Elsa doesn't care

400

Based on the article, describe the challenges Annie Smith Peck faced throughout her life.  Support your answer with important details from the article.  

Open Response- Race

400

Write an essay that describes how the friendship between Owen and Mzee is different from the relationship between mongooses and hornbills.  Use examples from both articles to support your conclusions.

Compare and contrasting: Owen and Mzee and Mongooses and hornbills. 

400

According to the folktale, explain how the emperor chooses the next emperor. Support your answer with important details from the folktale.

The emperor has the responsibility to choose the next emperor. 

400

What type of figurative language is this? Bonus 50pts, tell me what it means!

Don't let the cat out of the bag?

cat out of the bag= idiom 

Bonus= don't tell the secret

400

What type of figurative language is this? Bonus 50pts, tell me what it means!


My teacher is a dragon. 

metaphor


bonus: my teacher is really mean

500

Based on the article and the folktale, explain how fear can affect people.Support your answer with important details from the article and the details from the folktale.  

RACE 

500

In “Those Wacky Shoes” a girl has to outsmart a pair of shoes.  Think about the details the author uses to create the characters, setting and events.  Imagine that you, the girl in the story, find a pair of wacky shoes and what happens to you when you’re wearing them.  Use what you have learned about the wacky shoes when writing your story.  

You find a pair of wacky shoes, write a story about what happens to you while you are wearing them.

500

Write an essay that describes how the friendship between Owen and Mzee is different from the relationship between mongooses and hornbills.  Use examples from both articles to support your conclusions.

The friendship between Owen and Mzee is different than the relationship between mongooses and hornbills.

500

What type of figurative language is this? Bonus 50pts, tell me what it means!

The car complained as the key was roughly turned in its ignition.

personifcation

Bonus: the car didn't want to turn on/ it made a strange noise

500
Make the following simile a metaphor:


My dad's truck is as big as an elephant!


My dad's truck is the size of an elephant.