The Hungry Visitor
L. Han
Miguel herded the chickens into the coop and closed the gate as he did every night, only this time he noticed something odd. The chicken wire was bent in one place, and it looked like something had been digging beneath it. Instead of fixing the wire, Miguel decided to keep watch, so he hid in the shadow of the barn. There, he kept a careful lookout. Just as the sun was setting and the chickens had stopped their clucking for the night, he heard rustling. A moment later, a fox appeared and began to dig at the bent place in the fence. It wouldn’t be long before he got in and grabbed a chicken! Miguel was just thinking about how to get rid of the fox for good when the sound of the screen door slamming scared it off. He sighed and thought, I’ll get him next time.
Just then, Miguel’s mother walked up, and he told her what he’d seen. She smiled.
“Miguel,” she said, “as long as there have been chickens, foxes have tried to catch them. All we can do is keep our fences sturdy and shoo off the foxes when we see them. They have as much right to live as the chickens do.” She winked at her son and said, “That old sly fox will keep you guessing. I’ll guarantee it.”
Question
What would the reader learn if the story were told from the mother's point of view?
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A How many chickens the fox caughtHow many chickens the fox caught
B How scared the chickens are of the foxHow scared the chickens are of the fox
C How she feels about her son's efforts to catch the foxHow she feels about her son's efforts to catch the fox
D Where the fox lies in waitWhere the fox lies in wait
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What would the reader learn if the story were told from the mother's point of view?
Responses
A How many chickens the fox caughtHow many chickens the fox caught
B How scared the chickens are of the foxHow scared the chickens are of the fox
C How she feels about her son's efforts to catch the foxHow she feels about her son's efforts to catch the fox
D Where the fox lies in wait
C How she feels about her son's efforts to catch the fox
Whose viewpoint is shown in the first paragraph?
Responses
A The fox'sThe fox's
B Miguel'sMiguel's
C The mother'sThe mother's
D The narrator'sThe narrator's
B Miguel's
Swim Class Surprise
L. Hernandez
The prospect of swim class loomed like a shadow over my summer. My dad was planning a family vacation to a lake, but he said I had to learn to swim better first since I didn’t know how to do much more than dog paddle.
When the first day of class arrived, I biked to the pool. A bunch of little kids went in the door ahead of me, and I thought, Great, I’ll be the oldest kid in class. Then, I saw Keith and Orion, two friends from school.
“Don’t tell me you have to take this boring swim class, too,” I said when I walked up. Keith rolled his eyes, and Orion smirked as we entered the locker room.
“I hope we at least get a cool teacher,” I said, but I wasn’t getting my hopes up. After
showering, we walked out to the pool. I nearly fell in when I saw our teacher, a tall and tan young man who looked very familiar.
“Hey,” I said, “you were in the Olympics, weren’t you? You won a gold medal!”
The young man smiled and nodded.
Wow, I thought, this might not be such a boring class after all!
Which point of view is used in this passage?
Responses
A third personthird person
B first and second personfirst and second person
C first personfirst person
D second and third person
C first person
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New Mail System to Begin
L. Han
Beginning on October 1, 1896, Jefferson County will start having rural mail delivery. The postmaster general of the United States has decided that this county will be the first in the nation to get this service.
Letters and other small pieces of mail will be delivered by horse and buggy. The mail carrier will place mail in the post boxes at the edge of your property. Larger packages will not be delivered in person. You will still need to pick these up at the main post office. You may also leave stamped outgoing mail in your post boxes. These will be picked up by the mail carrier and taken to the county post office for processing.
Rural Mail Delivery
L. Han
U.S. cities had mail service as early as 1863. However, farmers and other people who lived in the country had to travel for as long as a day to the nearest post office for their mail. At last, in 1896, rural mail delivery began. Jefferson County, West Virginia, was the first place that started receiving mail. Not long after, the program was expanded to other areas.
By 1902, there were thousands of rural routes. The numbers kept climbing in the years that followed. Finally, country people could receive mail where they lived. This helped them to be more connected to the cities and the world.
One way the two passages are different is that only "Rural Mail Delivery"—
Responses
A says that packages had to be picked up in personsays that packages had to be picked up in person
B tells how rural mail service routes increasedtells how rural mail service routes increased
C explains that packages might start being deliveredexplains that packages might start being delivered
D sends a message to the people of Jefferson County
B tells how rural mail service routes increased
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Choose the transition word that correctly completes each sentence.
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Paul has been practicing for two hours. Response area, it is game time!
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