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Juan Quezada & The Pots of Mata Ortiz
Vocab 1
A Stamp Collector's Dream
Vocab 2
Kamal & The Card
100
Juan Quezada was looking for firewood or paintbrushes when he discovered the pot fragments?
firewood!
100
My parents store an extra bed for guests in the ______ of our house.
ATTIC
100
According to the passage, all stamp collectors try to find rare stamps. True or False?
True!
100
The measuring glass has numbers ______ onto its surface.
ETCHED
100
Which player's baseball card does Troy tell Kamal is worth over a million dollars? Jackie Robinson, Honus Wagner, or Willie Mays?
Honus Wagner
200
When Spencer MacCallum came to visit Juan's town and saw Juan's pots, he encouraged Juan quit his regular job and focus on making his pots. True or False?
TRUE
200
The child filled in the ______ of the picture with red paint.
FRAME
200
Which of these choices would be an example of a rare stamp? A stamp that has been printed in color OR a stamp with a printing mistake on it?
A stamp with a printing mistake on it.
200
Grandma Sue bought a painting at the ______ because she made the highest offer for it.
AUCTION
200
Which one of these things is NOT something Kamal and his parents found in the attic? An old lamp, a baseball-card album, a few coins, OR a bicycle.
A BICYCLE
300
You could describe Juan Quezada as: selfish, unimaginative, humorous, or self-taught?
SELF-TAUGHT
300
The ______ of my book collection is a book signed by my favorite author.
GEM
300
What caused the airplane on the Jenny stamp to be printed upside down?
A printer loaded a sheet upside down on the printing press.
300
This word's definition is: the color, image, or scene in the background of a picture.
BACKDROP
300
The main character of this passage is: Hank Aaron, Troy, Kamal, or Grandpa Joe?
Kamal
400
The main message of this passage is that you can make a career out of doing what you love OR you can make a brush out of children's hair?
you can make a career out of doing what you love.
400
My dad had my mom's name ______ on his ring.
ENGRAVED
400
The mail clerk let Robey take the Inverted Jenny stamps home because he did not know there was a printing error. True or False?
True!
400
Synonym: Currency
CASH
400
Kamal and Troy want to stop the auction because: They want to give the cards back to Kamal's grandpa OR They want to save the Honus Wagner card from being sold?
They want to save the Honus Wagner card from being sold
500
Juan Quezada most likely experiment with different soils when he first started making pots because he wanted to recreate the old pot he had found OR because he could not find any other materials to use?
He wanted to recreate the old pot he had found.
500
John ______ through the pages of the photo album.
FLIPPED
500
The author's purpose for writing this passage is: To inform the reader about the Inverted Jenny stamps and stamp collecting OR to entertain the reader with a story about a mail clerk who made a mistake?
To inform the reader about the Inverted Jenny stamps and stamp collecting
500
This word is an offer to pay an amount of money for something.
BID
500
What is the author's purpose for writing this passage? To persuade the reader to collect baseball cards OR to entertain the reader with a story about a valuable baseball card?
To entertain the reader with a story about a valuable baseball card!