Module 8th grade english

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ENGLISH INSTRUCTIONAL
MODULE
EIGTH GRADE
August 2020
Web page: https://de.pr.gov/  Twitter: @educacionpr

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This instructional module is designed for educational purposes only, and intention
of profiting or commercial use is prohibited without previous authorization of its
authors. The Puerto Rico Department of Education or any authors referenced,
each owns the copyright to the content created, which is duly stated within the
document.

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LETTER FOR TEACHERS, STUDENTS AND PARENTS
Dear Student:
This instructional module is a document that favors your learning process. It allows
you to learn more effectively and independently, in other words, without the need
of having a face to face or online class in every moment. Likewise, it contains all
the necessary elements for learning the concepts and skills of the English class,
without the constant help from your teacher. Its content has been prepared by
teachers, facilitators, and Academic Program Directors of the Puerto Rico
Department of Education (PRDE) to support your learning process in these
extraordinary times in which we live.
I invite you to complete this instructional module following the progress calendar
established per week. In it, you will be able to review knowledge, improve skills
and learn new concepts about the English class through definitions, examples,
reading passages, exercises, and assessments. We also suggest additional
resources available on the internet, so that you can expand your learning.
Remember that this learning experience is essential in your academic and
personal development, so start now.
Dear Families:
The Puerto Rico Department of Education (PRDE) committed to the education of
our students, has designed this instructional module in collaboration with
teachers, facilitators, and academic program directors. Its purpose is to provide
the academic content of the English class for the first ten weeks of the new school

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year. In addition, to develop, reinforce, and evaluate the concepts and skills
domain of our students. This is one of the alternatives that PRDE promotes to
develop the knowledge of our students, your children, in order to improve their
academic achievement.
It is proven that when families are involved in the education of their children, they
improve the results of their learning. For this reason, we invite you to support the
academic and comprehensive development of your children using this module
to support their learning. It is essential that your child advance in this module
following the progress schedule established per week.
The PRDE staff recognizes that you will be anxious with the new teaching methods,
and that you want your children to do very well in the process. We request all
families to provide direct and active collaboration in the teaching and learning
process of their children. In these extraordinary times we live in, we remind you
that it is important for you to develop your child's confidence, sense of
accomplishment, and independence when doing schoolwork. Do not forget that
the educational needs of our children and youth are everyone's responsibility.
Estimadas familias:
El Departamento de Educación de Puerto Rico (DEPR) comprometido con la
educación de nuestros estudiantes, ha diseñado este módulo didáctico con la
colaboración de: maestros, facilitadores docentes y directores de los programas
académicos. Su propósito es proveer el contenido académico de la materia de
Inglés para las primeras diez semanas del nuevo año escolar. Además, para
desarrollar, reforzar y evaluar el dominio de conceptos y destrezas claves. Ésta
es una de las alternativas que promueve el DEPR para desarrollar los

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conocimientos de nuestros estudiantes, tus hijos, para así mejorar el
aprovechamiento académico de estos.
Está probado que cuando las familias se involucran en la educación de sus hijos
mejora los resultados de su aprendizaje. Por esto, te invitamos a que apoyes el
desarrollo académico e integral de tus hijos utilizando este módulo para apoyar
su aprendizaje. Es fundamental que tu hijo avance en este módulo siguiendo el
calendario de progreso establecido por semana.
El personal del DEPR reconoce que estarán realmente ansiosos ante las nuevas
modalidades de enseñanza y que desean que sus hijos lo hagan muy bien. Le
solicitamos a las familias que brinden una colaboración directa y activa en el
proceso de enseñanza y aprendizaje de sus hijos. En estos tiempos extraordinarios
en que vivimos, les recordamos que es importante que desarrolles la confianza,
el sentido de logro y la independencia de tu hijo al realizar las tareas escolares.
No olvides que las necesidades educativas de nuestros niños y jóvenes es
responsabilidad de todos.
Dear teacher:
The Puerto Rico Department of Education (PRDE) committed to the education of
our students, has designed this instructional module in collaboration with
teachers, facilitators, and academic program directors. This constitutes a useful
and necessary resource to promote an innovative teaching and learning process
that allows the holistic and comprehensive development of our students to the
best of their abilities. Furthermore, it is one of the alternatives provided to develop
the knowledge of PRDE students; in the face of the emergency situations that
confronts our country.

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The module’s purpose is to provide the content of the English class for the first ten
weeks of the new school year. It is a work tool that will help develop concepts
and skills in students to improve their academic knowledge. When selecting this
teaching alternative, you must ensure that students advance in the module
following the progress calendar established per week. It is important to promote
their full development, providing tools that can support their learning. Therefore,
you must diversify the offerings with creative learning and evaluation alternatives
of your own creation to significantly reduce the gaps in their academic
achievement.
PRDE staff expect that this module can help you achieve that students have a
significant progress in their academic achievement. We hope that this initiative
can help you develop the abilities of our students to the maximum of their
capacities.
Estimada familia:
El Departamento de Educación de Puerto Rico (DEPR) tiene como prioridad el
garantizar que a sus hijos se les provea una educación pública, gratuita y
apropiada. Para lograr este cometido, es imperativo tener presente que los seres
humanos son diversos. Por eso, al educar es necesario reconocer las habilidades
de cada individuo y buscar estrategias para minimizar todas aquellas barreras
que pudieran limitar el acceso a su educación.
La otorgación de acomodos razonables es una de las estrategias que se utilizan
para minimizar las necesidades que pudiera presentar un estudiante. Estos
permiten adaptar la forma en que se presenta el material, la forma en que el
estudiante responde, la adaptación del ambiente y lugar de estudio y el tiempo
e itinerario que se utiliza. Su función principal es proveerle al estudiante acceso

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equitativo durante la enseñanza y la evaluación. Estos tienen la intención de
reducir los efectos de la discapacidad, excepcionalidad o limitación del idioma
y no, de reducir las expectativas para el aprendizaje. Durante el proceso de
enseñanza y aprendizaje, se debe tener altas expectativas con nuestros niños y
jóvenes.
Esta guía tiene el objetivo de apoyar a las familias en la selección y
administración de los acomodos razonables durante el proceso de enseñanza y
evaluación para los estudiantes que utilizarán este módulo didáctico. Los
acomodos razonables le permiten a su hijo realizar la tarea y la evaluación, no
de una forma más fácil, sino de una forma que sea posible de realizar, según las
capacidades que muestre. El ofrecimiento de acomodos razonables está atado
a la forma en que su hijo aprende. Los estudios en neurociencia establecen que
los seres humanos aprenden de forma visual, de forma auditiva o de forma
kinestésica o multisensorial, y aunque puede inclinarse por algún estilo, la mayoría
utilizan los tres.
Por ello, a continuación, se presentan algunos ejemplos de acomodos
razonables que podrían utilizar con su hijo mientras trabaja este módulo
didáctico en el hogar. Es importante que como madre, padre o persona
encargada en dirigir al estudiante en esta tarea los tenga presente y pueda
documentar cuales se utilizaron. Si necesita más información, puede hacer
referencia a la Guía para la provisión de acomodos razonables (2018) disponible
por medio de la página www.de.pr.gov, en educación especial, bajo Manuales
y Reglamentos.

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GUÍA DE ACOMODOS RAZONABLES PARA LOS ESTUDIANTES QUE TRABAJARÁN
BAJO MÓDULOS DIDÁCTICOS
Acomodos de
presentación
Acomodos en la
forma de
responder
Acomodos de
ambiente y lugar
Acomodos de
tiempo e itinerario
Cambian la manera en
que se presenta la
información al
estudiante. Esto le
permite tener acceso a
la información de
diferentes maneras. El
material puede ser
presentado de forma
auditiva, táctil, visual o
multisensorial.
Cambian la manera en
que el estudiante
responde o demuestra
su conocimiento.
Permite a los
estudiantes presentar
las contestaciones de
las tareas de diferentes
maneras. Por ejemplo,
de forma verbal, por
medio de
manipulativos, entre
otros.
Cambia el lugar, el
entorno o el ambiente
donde el estudiante
completará el módulo
didáctico. Los
acomodos de ambiente
y lugar requieren de
organizar el espacio
donde el estudiante
trabajará.
Cambian la cantidad de
tiempo permitido para
completar una
evaluación o
asignación; cambia la
manera, orden u hora
en que se organiza el
tiempo, las materias o
las tareas.
Aprendiz visual:
 Usar letra agrandada
o equipos para
agrandar como
lupas, televisores y
computadoras
 Uso de láminas,
videos pictogramas.
 Utilizar claves
visuales tales como
uso de colores en las
instrucciones,
resaltadores
(highlighters),
subrayar palabras
importantes.
 Demostrar lo que se
espera que realice el
estudiante y utilizar
modelos o
demostraciones.
 Hablar con claridad,
pausado
 Identificar
compañeros que
Aprendiz visual:
 Utilizar la
computadora para
que pueda escribir.
 Utilizar
organizadores
gráficos.
 Hacer dibujos que
expliquen su
contestación.
 Permitir el uso de
láminas o dibujos
para explicar sus
contestaciones
 Permitir que el
estudiante escriba
lo que aprendió por
medio de tarjetas,
franjas, láminas, la
computadora o un
comunicador
visual.
 Contestar en el
folleto.
Aprendiz visual:
 Ambiente
silencioso,
estructurado, sin
muchos
distractores.
 Lugar ventilado,
con buena
iluminación.
 Utilizar escritorio o
mesa cerca del
adulto para que lo
dirija.
Aprendiz auditivo:
 Ambiente donde
pueda leer en voz
alta o donde pueda
escuchar el
material sin
interrumpir a otras
personas.
 Lugar ventilado,
con buena
Aprendiz visual y
auditivo:
 Preparar una
agenda detalladas
y con códigos de
colores con lo que
tienen que realizar.
 Reforzar el que
termine las tareas
asignadas en la
agenda.
 Utilizar agendas de
papel donde pueda
marcar, escribir,
colorear.
 Utilizar “post-it”
para organizar su
día.
 Comenzar con las
clases más
complejas y luego
moverse a las
sencillas.
 Brindar tiempo
extendido para

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Acomodos de
presentación
Acomodos en la
forma de
responder
Acomodos de
ambiente y lugar
Acomodos de
tiempo e itinerario
puedan servir de
apoyo para el
estudiante
 Añadir al material
información
complementaria
Aprendiz auditivo:
 Leerle el material o
utilizar aplicaciones
que convierten el
texto en formato
audible.
 Leer en voz alta las
instrucciones.
 Permitir que el
estudiante se grabe
mientras lee el
material.
 Audiolibros
 Repetición de
instrucciones
 Pedirle al estudiante
que explique en sus
propias palabras lo
que tiene que hacer
 Utilizar el material
grabado
 Identificar
compañeros que
puedan servir de
apoyo para el
estudiante
a)
Aprendiz
multisensorial:
 Presentar el material
segmentado (en
pedazos)
Aprendiz auditivo:
 Grabar sus
contestaciones
 Ofrecer sus
contestaciones a
un adulto que
documentará por
escrito lo
mencionado.
 Hacer
presentaciones
orales.
 Hacer videos
explicativos.
 Hacer exposiciones
Aprendiz
multisensorial:
 Señalar la
contestación a una
computadora o a
una persona.
 Utilizar
manipulativos para
representar su
contestación.
 Hacer
presentaciones
orales y escritas.
 Hacer dramas
donde represente
lo aprendido.
 Crear videos,
canciones,
carteles, infografías
para explicar el
material.
 Utilizar un
comunicador
electrónico o
manual.
iluminación y
donde se les
permita el
movimiento
mientras repite en
voz alta el material.
Aprendiz
multisensorial:
 Ambiente se le
permita moverse,
hablar, escuchar
música mientras
trabaja, cantar.
 Permitir que realice
las actividades en
diferentes
escenarios
controlados por el
adulto. Ejemplo el
piso, la mesa del
comedor y luego,
un escritorio.
completar sus
tareas.
Aprendiz
multisensorial:
 Asistir al estudiante
a organizar su
trabajo con
agendas escritas o
electrónicas.
 Establecer
mecanismos para
recordatorios que
le sean efectivos.
 Utilizar las
recompensas al
terminar sus tareas
asignadas en el
tiempo establecido.
 Establecer horarios
flexibles para
completar las
tareas.
 Proveer recesos
entre tareas.
 Tener flexibilidad
en cuando al mejor
horario para
completar las
tareas.
 Comenzar con las
tareas más fáciles
y luego, pasar a las
más complejas.
 Brindar tiempo
extendido para
completar sus
tareas.

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Acomodos de
presentación
Acomodos en la
forma de
responder
Acomodos de
ambiente y lugar
Acomodos de
tiempo e itinerario
 Dividir la tarea en
partes cortas
 Utilizar
manipulativos
 Utilizar canciones
 Utilizar videos
 Presentar el material
de forma activa, con
materiales comunes.
 Permitirle al
estudiante investigar
sobre el tema que se
trabajará
 Identificar
compañeros que
puedan servir de
apoyo para el
estudiante

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HOJA DE DOCUMENTAR LOS ACOMODOS RAZONABLES
UTILIZADOS AL TRABAJAR EL MÓDULO DIDÁCTICO
Nombre del estudiante: Número de SIE:
Materia del módulo: Grado:
Estimada familia:
1.
Utiliza la siguiente hoja para documentar los acomodos razonables que
utiliza con tu hijo en el proceso de apoyo y seguimiento al estudio de este
módulo. Favor de colocar una marca de cotejo [] en aquellos
acomodos razonables que utilizó con su hijo para completar el módulo
didáctico. Puede marcar todos los que aplique y añadir adicionales en
la parte asignada para ello.
Acomodos de presentación Acomodos de tiempo e itinerario
Aprendiz visual:
 Usar letra agrandada o equipos para
agrandar como lupas, televisores y
computadoras
 Uso de láminas, videos pictogramas.
 Utilizar claves visuales tales como uso de
colores en las instrucciones, resaltadores
(highlighters), subrayar palabras
importantes.
 Demostrar lo que se espera que realice el
estudiante y utilizar modelos o
demostraciones.
 Hablar con claridad, pausado
 Identificar compañeros que puedan servir de
apoyo para el estudiante
 Añadir al material información
complementaria
Aprendiz visual:
 Utilizar la computadora para que pueda
escribir.
 Utilizar organizadores gráficos.
 Hacer dibujos que expliquen su contestación.
 Permitir el uso de láminas o dibujos para
explicar sus contestaciones
 Permitir que el estudiante escriba lo que
aprendió por medio de tarjetas, franjas,
láminas, la computadora o un comunicador
visual.
 Contestar en el folleto.
Aprendiz auditivo:
 Grabar sus contestaciones
 Ofrecer sus contestaciones a un adulto que
documentará por escrito lo mencionado.
 Hacer presentaciones orales.
 Hacer videos explicativos.

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Aprendiz auditivo:
 Leerle el material o utilizar aplicaciones que
convierten el texto en formato audible.
 Leer en voz alta las instrucciones.
 Permitir que el estudiante se grabe mientras
lee el material.
 Audiolibros
 Repetición de instrucciones
 Pedirle al estudiante que explique en sus
propias palabras lo que tiene que hacer
 Utilizar el material grabado
Aprendiz multisensorial:
 Presentar el material segmentado (en
pedazos)
 Dividir la tarea en partes cortas
 Utilizar manipulativos
 Utilizar canciones
 Utilizar videos
 Presentar el material de forma activa, con
materiales comunes.
 Permitirle al estudiante investigar sobre el
tema que se trabajará
 Hacer exposiciones
 Señalar la contestación a una computadora o
a una persona.
 Utilizar manipulativos para representar su
contestación.
 Hacer presentaciones orales y escritas.
 Hacer dramas donde represente lo aprendido.
 Crear videos, canciones, carteles, infografías
para explicar el material.
 Utilizar un comunicador electrónico o manual.
Acomodos de respuesta Acomodos de ambiente y lugar
Aprendiz visual:
 Ambiente silencioso, estructurado, sin
muchos distractores.
 Lugar ventilado, con buena iluminación.
 Utilizar escritorio o mesa cerca del adulto
para que lo dirija.
Aprendiz auditivo:
 Ambiente donde pueda leer en voz alta o
donde pueda escuchar el material sin
interrumpir a otras personas.
Aprendiz visual y auditivo:
 Preparar una agenda detalladas y con
códigos de colores con lo que tienen que
realizar.
 Reforzar el que termine las tareas asignadas
en la agenda.
 Utilizar agendas de papel donde pueda
marcar, escribir, colorear.
 Utilizar “post-it” para organizar su día.
 Comenzar con las clases más complejas y
luego moverse a las sencillas.
 Brindar tiempo extendido para completar sus
tareas.

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 Lugar ventilado, con buena iluminación y
donde se les permita el movimiento mientras
repite en voz alta el material.
 Ambiente se le permita moverse, hablar,
escuchar música mientras trabaja, cantar.
 Permitir que realice las actividades en
diferentes escenarios controlados por el
adulto. Ejemplo el piso, la mesa del comedor
y luego, un escritorio.
 Asistir al estudiante a organizar su trabajo
con agendas escritas o electrónicas.
 Establecer mecanismos para
recordatorios que le sean efectivos.
 Utilizar las recompensas al terminar sus
tareas asignadas en el tiempo
establecido.
 Establecer horarios flexibles para
completar las tareas.
 Proveer recesos entre tareas.
 Tener flexibilidad en cuando al mejor
horario para completar las tareas.
 Comenzar con las tareas más fáciles y
luego, pasar a las más complejas.
 Brindar tiempo extendido para completar
sus tareas.
Otros:
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2.
Si tu hijo es un candidato o un participante de los servicios para
estudiantes aprendices del español como segundo idioma e inmigrantes
considera las siguientes sugerencias de enseñanza:
 Proporcionar un modelo o demostraciones de respuestas escritas u orales
requeridas o esperadas.
 Comprobar si hay comprensión: use preguntas que requieran respuestas de una
sola palabra, apoyos y gestos.
 Hablar con claridad, de manera pausada.
 Evitar el uso de las expresiones coloquiales, complejas.
 Asegurar que los estudiantes tengan todos los materiales necesarios.
 Leer las instrucciones oralmente.
 Corroborar que los estudiantes entiendan las instrucciones.
 Incorporar visuales: gestos, accesorios, gráficos organizadores y tablas.
 Sentarse cerca o junto al estudiante durante el tiempo de estudio.
 Seguir rutinas predecibles para crear un ambiente de seguridad y estabilidad
para el aprendizaje.
 Permitir el aprendizaje por descubrimiento, pero estar disponible para ofrecer
instrucciones directas sobre cómo completar una tarea.
 Utilizar los organizadores gráficos para la relación de ideas, conceptos y textos.
 Permitir el uso del diccionario regular o ilustrado.
 Crear un glosario pictórico.
 Simplificar las instrucciones.
 Ofrecer apoyo en la realización de trabajos de investigación.
 Ofrecer los pasos a seguir en el desarrollo de párrafos y ensayos.
 Proveer libros o lecturas con conceptos similares, pero en un nivel más sencillo.
 Proveer un lector.
 Proveer ejemplos.
 Agrupar problemas similares (todas las sumas juntas), utilizar dibujos, láminas, o
gráficas para apoyar la explicación de los conceptos, reducir la complejidad
lingüística del problema, leer y explicar el problema o teoría verbalmente o
descomponerlo en pasos cortos.
 Proveer objetos para el aprendizaje (concretizar el vocabulario o conceptos).
 Reducir la longitud y permitir más tiempo para las tareas escritas.
 Leer al estudiante los textos que tiene dificultad para entender.
 Aceptar todos los intentos de producción de voz sin corrección de errores.
 Permitir que los estudiantes sustituyan dibujos, imágenes o diagramas, gráficos,
gráficos para una asignación escrita.

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 Esbozar el material de lectura para el estudiante en su nivel de lectura,
enfatizando las ideas principales.
 Reducir el número de problemas en una página.
 Proporcionar objetos manipulativos para que el estudiante utilice cuando
resuelva problemas de matemáticas.
3.
Si tu hijo es un estudiante dotado, es decir, que obtuvo 130 o más de
cociente intelectual (CI) en una prueba psicométrica, su educación
debe ser dirigida y desafiante. Deberán considerar las siguientes
recomendaciones:
 Conocer las capacidades especiales del estudiante, sus intereses y estilos
de aprendizaje.
 Realizar actividades motivadoras que les exijan pensar a niveles más
sofisticados y explorar nuevos temas.
 Adaptar el currículo y profundizar.
 Evitar las repeticiones y las rutinas.
 Realizar tareas de escritura para desarrollar empatía y sensibilidad.
 Utilizar la investigación como estrategia de enseñanza.
 Promover la producción de ideas creativas.
 Permitirle que aprenda a su ritmo.
 Proveer mayor tiempo para completar las tareas, cuando lo requiera.
 Cuidar la alineación entre su educación y sus necesidades académicas y
socioemocionales.

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CONTENTS
LETTER FOR TEACHERS, STUDENTS AND PARENTS ............................................. 2
COLLABORATORS ..................................................................................................... 17
MODULE PROGRESSIVE CALENDAR....................................................................... 18
LESSON 1 .................................................................................................................... 19
DAY 1 EDITING MARKS ........................................................................................... 20
DAY 2 PREVIEW ACTIVITY...................................................................................... 24
DAY 3 DECISION MAKING LOG............................................................................... 26
DAY 4 READING COMPREHENSION ...................................................................... 30
DAY 5 COMPREHENSION QUESTIONS.................................................................. 35
DAY 6 GRAMMAR: WHAT IS AN ADVERB? ............................................................ 37
DAY 7 THE FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL STORY ......................................................... 40
DAY 8 COMPREHENSION QUESTIONS.................................................................. 45
DAY 9 MINI LESSON: THESIS STATEMENT........................................................... 47
DAY 10-11 THEME: ELEMENTS OF A PLOT........................................................... 48
DAY 12 ELEVEN STORY .......................................................................................... 50
DAY 13 COMPREHENSION QUESTIONS................................................................ 54
DAY 14 QUESTIONS ................................................................................................ 57
DAY 15 ESSAY WRITING ......................................................................................... 59
DAY 16: LESSON 1 TEST......................................................................................... 61
DAY 17 WRAP UP.................................................................................................... 64
LESSON 2 .................................................................................................................... 70
DAY 18 CONJUNCTIONS ......................................................................................... 71
DAY 19 EXERCISES................................................................................................. 74
DAY 19 EXERCISE ANSWERS ................................................................................ 76
DAY 20 COMBINING SENTENCES PRACTICE....................................................... 77
DAY 21 VILLAGE IN ARGENTINA ARTICLE ............................................................ 79
DAY 22 NEWS ARTICLE ANALYSIS ........................................................................ 80
DAY 23-24 FLOATING CINEMA................................................................................ 82
DAY 25 NEWS ARTICLE ANALYSIS ........................................................................ 84

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DAY 26 COMPARE AND CONTRAST ...................................................................... 86
DAYS 27-28 COMPARATIVE ESSAY WRITING....................................................... 88
COMPARISON AND CONTRAST RUBRIC........................................................... 91
DAY 29-31 LESSON 2 TEST..................................................................................... 92
LESSON 3 .................................................................................................................... 98
DAY 32 LITERARY CONFLICTS............................................................................... 99
CONFLICT EXAMPLES....................................................................................... 100
CONFLICT IN WRITING EXAMPLE .................................................................... 101
DAY 33-36 CONFLICT EXERCISES ....................................................................... 102
ANSWER KEY CONFLICT EXERCISES............................................................. 104
DAY 37 BIOGRAPHY .............................................................................................. 105
DAY 38 BIOGRAPHY SUMMARY ........................................................................... 107
DAY 39 BIOGRAPHY SUMMARY........................................................................... 108
DAY 40-42 THE STORY OF AN HOUR .................................................................. 109
DAY 43-44 OPINION PIECE GRAPHIC ORGANIZER ANALYSIS......................... 113
DAY 45-47 OPINION PIECE.................................................................................... 114
DAY 48-50 LESSON 3 TEST................................................................................... 115
READING OPEN-ENDED ITEM – 2 POINTS.......................................................... 121
REFERENCES ........................................................................................................ 122

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COLLABORATORS
Prof. Mariel D. Guzmán
English Teacher
Escuela Violeta Reyes Pérez
Cidra
Prof. Celia Pagan Alarcón
English Teacher
Escuela Luis Ramos González
Caguas
Prof. Pino Gómez Claudio
English Facilitator
ORE Caguas
Prof. María A. Rivera Velázquez
English Instruction Coordinator
Puerto Rico Department of Education

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MODULE PROGRESSIVE CALENDAR
Days Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
Days 1-5 Editing Marks Preview
Activity
Decision
Making Log
Reading
Comprehensio
n
Comprehensio
n Questions
Days 6-10 Grammar Short Story Comprehensio
n Questions
Thesis
Statement
Elements of a
Plot
Days 11-15 Elements of a
Plot
Eleven Story Comprehensio
n Questions
Comprehensio
n Questions
Writing an
Essay Task
Days 16-20 Lesson 1 Test Wrap Up Conjunctions Exercises Improving
Sentences
Days 21-25 Village in
Argentina
Comprehensio
n Questions
Essay Pre-
Writing
Essay Pre-
Writing
Essay Pre-
Writing
Days 26-30 Creative
Essay
Creative
Essay
Creative
Essay
Lesson 2 Test Lesson 2 Test
Days 31-35 Literary
Conflicts
Literary
Conflicts
Exercises Exercises Exercises
Days 36-40 Biography Biography Biography
Summary
Biography
Paragraph
The Story of
an Hour
Days 41-45 The Story of
an Hour
The Story of
an Hour
Opinion Piece
Graphic
Organizer
Opinion Piece
Graphic
Organizer
Opinion piece
paragraph
Days 46-50 Opinion piece
paragraph
Opinion piece
paragraph
Lesson 3 Test Lesson 3 Test Lesson 3 Test

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LESSON 1
Unit 8.1: Analyzing Character Decisions
Objectives:
At the end of this lesson the students will:
- Be able to write in response to reading.
Standards and Expectations:
Reading
8.R.1- read a variety of grade-level texts and multimedia resources (when available) to
explain ideas, phenomena, processes, cultural identity, and text relationships, supplying
textual evidence to support analysis and conclusions drawn from text.
8.R. 2La – provide an objective summary of the text.
Writing
8.W.4 – develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, drafting, revising,
editing, and use editing marks, rewriting, and publishing.
Language
8.LA.1a – explain the function and tenses of the different kinds of verbs and apply
correctly.
8.LA.1b – form and use verbs in the active and passive voice.
8.LA. 2b – spell correctly.

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DAY 1 EDITING MARKS
The Editing Marks are commonly used when proofreading writing. Use these marks
during part of the "Revision" stage in the writing process, and for the "Editing" stage as
well. Editing marks should also be used during peer-editing. Look at the following marks
to see how they are used.

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EDITING MARKS EXERCISE
Below is a paragraph that is full of errors. There may be spelling, punctuation,
capitalization, or grammar errors. Use editing marks to help guide you to rewrite the
paragraph and correct the errors.
Shoes,we waar them nearly every day. We walk run
jump clmb and stand in them for hours on end Yet we
hardly think about them because they are such an
ordinaree part of our daily lives. shoes wher
not always an important part of people’s wardrooobes.
The ancient greeks, egyptinse, and Persianes maed
and wore sandals, but actually actually actually went
barefoot most of the time. Archaeologists have found
shos in the ruins of these civiliations, but they seem to
have been worn mainly by royaltee, who could afford
to employ tailorss and shoemakers

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EDITING MARKS EXERCISE ANSWER
Shoes, we wear them nearly every day. We walk, run,
jump, climb, and stand in them for hours on end. Yet
we hardly think about them because they are such an
ordinary part of our daily lives. Shoes were not always
an important part of people’s wardrobes. The ancient
Greeks, Egyptians, and Persians made and wore
sandals, but actually went barefoot most of the time.
Archaeologists have found shoes in the ruins of these
civilizations, but they seem to have been worn mainly
by royalty, who could afford to employ tailors and
shoemakers.

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DAY 2 PREVIEW ACTIVITY
Do you like gardens? ___ yes ____ no
Would you participate in a community garden? Why or why not?
Explain your three reasons below:
Gardens
Reason #1 Reason #2 Reason #3

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Why do people’s decisions matter?
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DAY 3 DECISION MAKING LOG
8.1 Analyzing Character Decisions
As you read, record what decisions the characters make and what influences them to
make those decisions. Then determine whether the influence is internal or external.
NAME OF
CHARACTER
DECISION
INFLUENCE(S)
ON DECISION
MAKING
IS INFLUENCE
INTERNAL OR
EXTERNAL?
Mama

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Image from https://www.vecteezy.com/
“Leona” From Seedfolks by Paul Fleischman
Directions: As you read, stop and fill in the Decision-Making Log. Underline clues from
the story that helped you.
Mama believed in doctors, but not Granny. Not even if they were black. No, ma’am. I grew
up in her house, back in Atlanta. She drank down a big cup of goldenrod tea every
morning, with a nutmeg floating in it, and declared she didn’t need no other medicine. Dr.
Bates tried to sell her his iron pills and told her straight out that that tea of hers would
raise her blood pressure and burst her heart. He passed away that very same summer.
Next doctor said it would give her brain fever.
He died on his fiftieth birthday. I believe, right during the party. Had him a real nice funeral,
later. Granny lived to ninety-nine, by her count. She kept a scrapbook with the obituaries
of all the doctors she outlived and could recite the list of names by heart, like a chapter
out of Genesis. We took to going to their funerals right regular over the years. She always
laid some goldenrod on their graves.
I was thinking about her one day, walking home from the grocery store on Gibb Street.
Then I came to the vacant lot and saw three people in different parts of it. I thought maybe
they were looking for money.
Turned out they had shovels, not metal detectors. When I saw they had little gardens
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There was a man standing and watching from the sidewalk and a girl looking down out a
window. There were probably lots of folks who’d want to grow something, just like me.
Then I studied all the trash on the ground. Don’t know why anyone called that lot “vacant.”
The garbage was piled high as your waist, some of it from the neighborhood and some
dropped off by outside people. The ones who don’t want to pay at the dump, or got
dangerous chemicals, or think we’re such slobs down here we won’t mind another load
of junk. We can’t get City Hall to pick up our trash, but we got it delivered just fine. The
smell’s enough to curl up a crocodile’s nose, especially in the summer. The gardeners
had made some trails through it. But I knew precious few would join ‘em until that mess
was hauled away. Looking at it, I knew this wasn’t a job for no wheelbarrow. This was a
job for the telephone.
I marched on home. I’ve got two kids in a high school that has more guns than books, so
I know all about complaining to officials and such about things that need changing. Next
morning was Monday. At nine o’clock I drank me a tall glass of water. I knew I’d be having
to say the same thing to fifteen or twenty government folks. I put Miles on the CD player
and stretched out on the bed. Might as well be comfortable when you’re on hold. Then I
opened the phone book and started dialing.
You ever watch a sax player close? They push down a key and way at the other end of
the instrument something moves. That’s what I was looking for – the key that would make
that trash disappear.
I tried the City of Cleveland, then Cuyahoga County, then the State of Ohio, and finally
the U.S. government. Six and a half hours later I found out the lot was owned by the city.
But the people running Cleveland don’t usually come down here, unless they take a wrong
turn on the freeway. You can’t measure the distance between my block and City Hall in
miles.
Just the same, I kept working on it the next day. That Citizens’ Information Center told me
to call the Public Health Department. They sent me to someone else. They’re all trained
to be slippery as snakes. And to be out to lunch, to not return messages, and to keep
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I needed instead of closer. Then on the third day, I thought on it. When people talk to you
on the phone, you’re nothing but a voice. And when you’re on hold you’re not even that.
I had to make myself real to ‘em.
That morning I took a bus downtown and walked into the Public Health Department. Told
about the trash all over again to this dolled-up receptionist. Let her see me up close and
personal and hear me loud and clear. She just told me to sit down with the others waiting.
I did. Then I opened the garbage bag I’d picked up in the lot on the way. The smell that
came out of it made you think of hog pens and maggots and kitchen scraps from back
when Nixon was president.
It was amazing how quick people noticed it, including that receptionist. And even more
amazing how quick I was called in to have a meeting with someone. I was definitely real
to them now. I brought that bag along with me into the meeting, to keep it that way.

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DAY 4 READING COMPREHENSION
Reading Comprehension Select the correct answer:
1. Why does Leona take some trash to city hall?
a. She wanted to recycle it.
b. She wanted a refund on her taxes.
c. She didn’t want to be ignored anymore.
d. She couldn’t find a dumpster to put it in.
2. How does Leona help the Garden?
a. she fights for the garden to be cleaned up.
b. she brings her classroom to learn about planting.
c. she sows her children to protect the plants.
d. she advertises for the benefits of the garden.
3. A news article that reports the recent death of a person, typically along with an
account of the person’s life and funeral information is an ________.
a. report
b. obituary
c. community
d. garden
4. Leona’s grandmother did not believe in __________.
a. herbal tea

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b. government
c. medicine
d. kids
5. What passage best describes how does Leona get the government officials to
remove the trash from the lot?
a. “There was a man standing and watching from the sidewalk and a girl looking
down out a window.”
b. “That Citizens’ Information Center told me to call the Public Health
Department.”
c. “Then on the third day, I thought on it. When people talk to you on the phone,
you’re nothing but a voice.”
d. “I opened the garbage bag I’d picked up in the lot on the way. The smell that
came out of it made you think of hog pens and maggots and kitchen scraps from
back when Nixon was president.”
6. What community does Leona represent?
a. African American
b. Latin
c. Caucasian
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7. What is a synonym for the word perseverance?
a. tenacity
b. neglect
c. sloth
d. inconstancy
8. What is an antonym for the word proactive?
a. motivated
b. driven
c. passive
d. dynamic
9. What does this symbol mean?
a. capitalize
b. paragraph
c. insert
d. delete
10. An Essay is a formal piece of _________?
a. listening
b. reading
c. writing
d. editing

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Answer the questions in complete sentences.
1. Who is the chapter about?
______________________________________________________________________
2. Where do the events take place?
______________________________________________________________________
3. When does the story takes place?
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Writing
Open ended questions encourage you to extend your responses, as opposed to yes or
no, or one-word answers. Answer in complete sentences.
1. What does the description of the community’s setting tells you about the
neighborhood?
______________________________________________________________________
2. Write a summary of this chapter:
______________________________________________________________________
3. What did you learn from reading about Leona and her decision?
______________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________
Rubric for OPEN ended questions at the end of the module.

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DAY 5 COMPREHENSION QUESTIONS
Let’s imagine we are in Leona’s position; but we cannot go to the city council. An
alternative would be to write an essay about the garbage problem and send it to the local
newspapers. This is a short exercise to improve your knowledge on writing essays. You
will have the opportunity to write complete essays in the next lessons.
For now, let’s start getting familiar with some of the important parts of writing.
I. Write an opening statement: Something strong that will grab everybody’s
attention.
___________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________
II. According to your opening statement add 3 details that support your statement.
Important facts that need to be attended.
___________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________
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III. Conclude with a sentence suggesting a way to solve the garbage problem in
the community.
___________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________
Now we will use our knowledge of editing marks to correct our writing. This process helps
us reflect on areas we need to improve and gives us the opportunity to focus on these
areas. Once you have edited re-write your paragraph in the space provided.
______________________________________________________________________
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______________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________
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DAY 6 GRAMMAR: WHAT IS AN ADVERB?
According to Purdue University, adverbs modify verbs, adjectives, and other adverbs.
(You can recognize adverbs easily because many of them are formed by adding -ly to
an adjective, though that is not always the case.)
To easily identify an adverb ask yourself: How? When? Where? To what extent? Why?
For example:
The turtle walked slowly across the road.
How did the turtle walk? slowly
My twins behaved badly during the dentist appointment.
How did the twins behave? badly
José and Luisa danced clumsily to the rhythm of the music.
How did José and Luisa dance? clumsily
Katty always arrives late and leaves early.
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ADVERB EXERCISES
Instructions: First select the correct adverb in each sentence and circle the question
that helped you choose the correct adverb.
1. We should never go back to the haunted house.
a. never
b. go
c. haunted
d. back
2. He pursued his dreams later in his life.
a. his
b. real
c. nice
d. later
3. She always laid some goldenrod flowers on their
graves.
a. always
b. some
c. She
d. their
4. Then I came to the vacant lot and saw three people
in different parts of it.
a. I
b. vacant
c. saw
d. three
5. He went downstairs and discovered a surprise.
a. discovered
b. downstairs
c. went
d. surprise
How? When? Where?
To what extent? Why?
How? When? Where?
How? When? Where?
How? When? Where?
How? When? Where?

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DAY 7 THE FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL STORY
Image from: https://www.vecteezy.com/
The First Day of School
Edward P. Jones
Directions: As you are reading, stop and make INFERENCES.
On an otherwise unremarkable September morning, long before I learned to be
ashamed of my mother, she takes my hand and we set off down New Jersey Avenue to
begin my very first day of school. I am wearing a checkered-like blue-and-green cotton
dress and scattered about these colors are bits of yellow and white and brown. My mother
has uncharacteristically spent nearly an hour on my hair that morning, plaiting and
replaiting so that now my scalp tingles.
Whenever I turn my head quickly, my nose fills with the faint smell of Dixie Peach
hair grease. The smell is somehow a soothing one now and I will reach for it time- and
time again before the morning ends. All the plaits, each with a blue barrette near the tip
and each twisted into an uncommon sturdiness, will last until I go to bed that night,
something that has never happened before. My stomach is full of milk and oatmeal
sweetened with brown sugar. Like everything else I have on, my pale green slip and
underwear are new, the underwear having come three to a plastic package with a little
girl on the front who appears to be dancing. Behind my ears, my mother, to stop my
whining, has dabbed the stingiest bit of her gardenia perfume, the last present my father
gave her before he disappeared into memory.
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wearing yellow socks trimmed with thin lines of black and white around the tops. My shoes
are my greatest joy, black patent-leather miracles, and when one is nicked at the toe later
that morning in class, my heart will break.
I am carrying a pencil, a pencil sharpener, and a small ten-cent tablet with a black-
and-white speckled cover. My mother does not believe that a girl in kindergarten needs
such things, so I am taking them only because of my insistent whining and because they
are presents from our neighbors, Mary Keith and Blondelle Harris. Miss Mary and Miss
Blondelle are watching my two younger sisters until my mother returns. The women are
as precious to me as my mother and sisters. Out playing one day, I have overheard an
older child, speaking to another child, call Miss Mary and Miss Blondelle a word that is
brand new to me. This is my mother: When I say the word in fun to one of my sisters, my
mother slaps me across the mouth and the word is lost for years and years.
All the way down New Jersey Avenue, the sidewalks are teeming with children. In
my neighborhood, I have many friends, but I see none of them as my mother and I walk.
We cross New York Avenue, we cross Pierce Street, and we cross L and K, and still I see
no one who knows my name. At I Street, between New Jersey Avenue and Third Street,
we enter Seaton Elementary School, a timeworn, sad faced building across the street
from my mother’s church, Mt. Carmel Baptist.
Just inside the front door, women out of the advertisements in Ebony are greeting
other parents and children. The woman who greets us has pearls thick as jumbo marbles
that come down almost to her navel, and she acts as if she had known me all my life,
touching my shoulder, cupping her hand under my chin. She is enveloped in a perfume
that I only know is not gardenia. When, in answer to her question, my mother tells her
that we live at 1227 New Jersey Avenue, the woman first seems to be picturing in her
head where we live. Then she shakes her head and says that we are at the wrong school,
that we should be at Walker-Jones.
My mother shakes her head vigorously. ”I want her to go here,” my mother says.
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The woman continues to act as if she has known me all my life, but she tells my
mother that we live beyond the area that Seaton serves. My mother is not convinced and
for several more minutes she questions the woman about why I cannot attend Seaton.
For as many Sundays as I can remember, perhaps even Sundays when I was in her
womb, my mother has pointed across I Street to Seaton as we come and go to Mt.
Carmel. “You gonna go there and learn about the whole world.” But one of the guardians
of that place is saying no, and no again. I am learning this about my mother: The higher
up on the scale of respectability a person is—and teachers are rather high up in her
eyes—the less she is liable to let them push her around. But finally, I see in her eyes the
closing gate, and she takes my hand and we leave the building. On the steps, she stops
as people move past us on either side.
“Mama, I can’t go to school?”
She says nothing at first, then takes my hand again and we are down the steps
quickly and nearing New Jersey Avenue before I can blink. This is my mother: She says,
“One monkey don’t stop no show.”
Walker-Jones is a larger, newer school and I immediately like it because of that.
But it is not across the street from my mother’s church, her rock, one of her connections
to God, and I sense her doubts as she absently rubs her thumb over the back of her hand.
We find our way to the crowded auditorium where gray metal chairs are set up in the
middle of the room. Along the wall to the left are tables and other chairs. Every chair
seems occupied by a child or adult. Somewhere in the room a child is crying, a cry that
rises above the buzz-talk of so many people. Strewn about the floor are dozens and
dozens of pieces of white paper, and people are walking over them without any thought
of picking them up. And seeing this lack of concern, I am all of a sudden afraid.
“Is this where they register for school?” my mother asks a woman at one of the
tables.
The woman looks up slowly as if she has heard this question once too often. She nods.
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mass of curlers and all of those curlers are made of paper money, here a dollar bill, there
a five-dollar bill. The girl’s hair is arrayed in curls, but some of them are beginning to droop
and this makes me happy.
On the table beside the woman’s pocketbook is a large notebook, worthy of someone in
high school, and looking at me looking at the notebook, the girl places her hand
possessively on it. In her other hand she holds several pencils with thick crowns of
additional erasers.
“These the forms you gotta use?” my mother asks the woman, picking up a few
pieces of the paper from the table. ”Is this what you have to fill out?”
The woman tells her yes, but that she need fill out only one.
“I see,” my mother says, looking about the room. Then: “Would you help me with this
form? That is, if you don’t mind.”
The woman asks my mother what she means. “This form. Would you mind help in me fill
it out?” The woman still seems not to understand.
“I can’t read it. I don’t know how to read or write, and I’m asking you to help me.” My
mother looks at me then looks away. I know almost all of her looks, but this one is brand
new to me.
“Would you help me, then?” The woman says “Why sure,” and suddenly she appears
happier, so much more satisfied with everything. She finishes the form for her daughter
and my mother and I step aside to wait for her. We find two chairs nearby and sit. My
mother is now diseased, according to the girl’s eyes, and until the moment her mother
takes her and the form to the front of the auditorium, the girl never stops looking at my
mother. I stare back at her. ”Don’t stare,” my mother says to me. ”You know better than
that.”
Another woman out of the Ebony ads takes the woman’s child away. Now, the woman
says upon returning, let’s see what we can do for you two.
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my last name, and then on to the first and middle names. This is school, I think. This is
going to school. My mother slowly enunciates each word of my name. This is my mother:
As the questions go on, she takes from her pocketbook document after document, as if
they will support my right to attend school, as if she has been saving them up for just this
moment. Indeed, she takes out more papers than I have ever seen her do in other places:
my birth certificate, my baptismal record, a doctor’s letter concerning my bout with chicken
pox, rent receipts, records of immunization, a letter about our public assistance payments,
even her marriage license—every single paper that has anything even remotely to do with
my five-year-old life. Few of the papers are needed here, but it does not matter and my
mother continues to pull out the documents with the purposefulness of a magician pulling
out a long string of scarves. She has learned that money is the beginning and end of
everything in this world, and when the woman finishes, my mother offers her fifty cents,
and the woman accepts it without hesitation. My mother and I are just about the last parent
and child in the room.
My mother presents the form to a woman sitting in front of the stage, and the
woman looks at it and writes something on a white card, which she gives to my mother.
Before long, the woman who has taken the girl with the drooping curls appears from
behind us, speaks to the sitting woman, and introduces herself to my mother and me.
She’s to be my teacher, she tells my mother. My mother stares.
We go into the hall, where my mother kneels down to me. Her lips are quivering.
”I’ll be back to pick you up at twelve o’clock. I don’t want you to go nowhere. You just wait
right here. And listen to every word she say.” I touch her lips and press them together. It
is an old, old game between us. She puts my hand down at my side, which is not part of
the game. She stands and looks a second at the teacher, then she turns and walks away.
I see where she has darned one of her socks the night before. Her shoes make loud
sounds in the hall. She passes through the doors and I can still hear the loud sounds of
her shoes. And even when the teacher turns me toward the classrooms and I hear what
must be the singing and talking of all the children in the world, I can still hear my mother’s
footsteps above it all.

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Select the correct answer.
1.What is the main theme of the story?
a. aging b. life
c. education d. improvement
2. Which best expresses the author's main purpose in writing this text?
a. To inform readers about correct education services
b. To persuade readers to reflect on their lives
c. To entertain readers with stories from school
d. To connect her wisdom in the story of making good decisions
3. What does represent the symbolism of the pearls?
a. represents a better life b. represents a terrible life
c. represents to be upper class d. none of the above
4. Which best defines the word vigorously as it is used in the seventh paragraph?
a. aggressively b. strenuously
c. strongly d. all of the above
5. What does this symbol mean?
a. start a new paragraph b. capitalize
c. move right d. check spelling

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Answer in complete sentences:
1.Why does the little girl “learn to be ashamed of [her] mother”? Explain. (First
sentence)
______________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________
2.What does the mother want for her child? Why?
______________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________
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DAY 9 MINI LESSON: THESIS STATEMENT
Continue to develop those writing skills.
WRITING THESIS STATEMENT
Directions: Fill in the thesis statement with your input on the past reading selection.

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DAY 10-11 THEME: ELEMENTS OF A PLOT
Standards & expectations:
Learning objective: After completing lesson 2, the students will be able to identify the
elements of a short story and use these elements to create their own story.
Topic opener: What is a plot?
Introduction of the content: The plot is the series of events that happen in a story. It is
built around a conflict or problem, that the main character faces. The elements of a plot
are 5 important concepts that every story has. These are:
a. Introduction/exposition: conflict or problem that the main character faces.
b. Rising action: a series of relevant incidents that creates suspense, interest
and tension.
c. Climax: is the turning point, or the most important event of the story.
d. Falling action: events that happens after the climax and leads to the
resolution.
e. Resolution: Where the story ends.
Exploration activity: Plot diagram

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Introduction Resolution
Climax

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DAY 12 ELEVEN STORY
Read the selection. Complete the activities that follow.
ELEVEN
By Sandra Cisneros
Directions: Read the story carefully. As you read, identify the plot of
the story and make inferences by using the clues in the text. Underline
the clues that help you make your inference.
What they don’t understand about birthdays and what they never tell you is that when
you’re eleven, you’re also ten, and nine, and eight, and seven, and six, and five, and
four, and three, and two, and one. And when you wake up on your eleventh birthday
you expect to feel eleven, but you don’t. You open your eyes and everything’s just like
yesterday, only it’s today. And you don’t feel eleven at all. You feel like you’re still ten.
And you are—underneath the year that makes you eleven.
Like some days you might say something stupid, and that’s the part of you that’s still
ten. Or maybe some days you might need to sit on your mama’s lap because you’re
scared, and that’s the part of you that’s five. And maybe one day when you’re all grown
up maybe you will need to cry like if you’re three, and that’s okay. That’s what I tell
Mama when she’s sad and needs to cry. Maybe she’s feeling three.
Because the way you grow old is kind of like an onion or like the rings inside a tree trunk
or like my little wooden dolls that fit one inside the other, each year inside the next one.
That’s how being eleven years old is.
You don’t feel eleven. Not right away. It takes a few days, weeks even, sometimes even
months before you say Eleven when they ask you. And you don’t feel smart eleven, not
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Only today I wish I didn’t have only eleven years rattling inside me like pennies in a tin
Band-Aid box. Today I wish I was one hundred and two instead of eleven because if I
was one hundred and two I’d have known what to say when Mrs. Price put the red
sweater on my desk. I would’ve known how to tell her it wasn’t mine instead of just
sitting there with that look on my face and nothing coming out of my mouth.
“Whose is this?” Mrs. Price says, and she holds the red sweater up in the air for all the
class to see. “Whose? It’s been sitting in the coatroom for a month.”
“Not mine,” says everybody. “Not me.”
“It has to belong to somebody, ”Mrs. Price keeps saying, but nobody can remember. It’s
an ugly sweater with red plastic buttons and a collar and sleeves all stretched out like
you could use it for a jump rope. It’s maybe a thousand years old and even if it belonged
to me I wouldn’t say so.
Maybe because I’m skinny, maybe because she doesn’t like me, that stupid Sylvia
Saldivar says, “I think it belongs to Rachel.” An ugly sweater like that, all raggedy and
old, but Mrs. Price believes her. Mrs. Price takes the sweater and puts it right on my
desk, but when I open my mouth nothing comes out.
“That’s not, I don’t, you’re not…Not mine.” I finally say in a little voice that was maybe
me when I was four.
“Of course it’s yours, ”Mrs. Price says. “ I remember you wearing it once.” Because
she’s older and the teacher, she’s right and I’m not.
Not mine, not mine, not mine, but Mrs. Price is already turning to page thirty-two, and
math problem number four. I don’t know why but all of a sudden I’m feeling sick inside,
like the part of me that’s three wants to come out of my eyes, only I squeeze them shut
tight and bite down on my teeth real hard and try to remember today I am eleven,
eleven. Mama is making a cake for me for tonight, and when Papa comes home
everybody will sing Happy birthday, happy birthday to you.
But when the sick feeling goes away and I open my eyes, the red sweater’s still sitting
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ruler. I move my pencil and books and eraser as far from it as possible. I even move my
chair a little to the right. Not mine, not mine, not mine.
In my head I’m thinking how long till lunchtime, how long till I can take the red sweater
and throw it over the schoolyard fence, or leave it hanging on a parking meter, or bunch
it up into a little ball and toss it in the alley. Except when math period ends Mrs. Price
says loud and in front of everybody, “Now, Rachel, that’s enough, ”because she sees
I’ve shoved the red sweater to the tippy-tip corner of my desk and it’s hanging all over
the edge like a waterfall, but I don’t care.
“Rachel, ”Mrs. Price says. She says it like she’s getting mad. “You put that sweater on
right now and no more nonsense.”
“But it’s not –“
“Now!” Mrs. Price says.
This is when I wish I wasn’t eleven because all the years inside of me—ten, nine, eight,
seven, six, five, four, three, two, and one—are pushing at the back of my eyes when I
put one arm through one sleeve of the sweater that smells like cottage cheese, and
then the other arm through the other and stand there with my arms apart like if the
sweater hurts me and it does, all itchy and full of germs that aren’t even mine.
That’s when everything I’ve been holding in since this morning, since when Mrs. Price
put the sweater on my desk, finally lets go, and all of a sudden I’m crying in front of
everybody. I wish I was invisible but I’m not. I’m eleven and it’s my birthday today and
I’m crying like I’m three in front of everybody. I put my head down on the desk and bury
my face in my stupid clown-sweater arms. My face all hot and spit coming out of my
mouth because I can’t stop the little animal noises from coming out of me until there
aren’t any more tears left in my eyes, and it’s just my body shaking like when you have
the hiccups, and my whole head hurts like when you drink milk too fast.
But the worst part is right before the bell rings for lunch. That stupid Phyllis Lopez, who
is even dumber than Sylvia Saldivar, says she remembers the red sweater is hers. I
take it off right away and give it to her, only Mrs. Price pretends like everything’s okay.

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Today I’m eleven. There’s a cake Mama’s making for tonight and when Papa comes
home from work we’ll eat it. There’ll be candles and presents and everybody will sing
Happy birthday, happy birthday to you, Rachel, only it’s too late.
I’m eleven today. I’m eleven, ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, and one,
but I wish I was one hundred and two. I wish I was anything but eleven. Because I want
today to be far away already, far away like a runaway balloon, like a tiny o in the sky, so
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Select the correct answer:
1. How does Rachel describe the red sweater?
a. shiny
b. plastic
c. ugly
d. small
2. Rachel says that the way people grow old is like:
a. candles on a birthday cake
b. a balloon floating in the sky
c. a math problem you figure out
d. rings inside a tree trunk
3. Why does she on the sweater?
a. Mrs. Price makes her wear it
b. She wants to hide in it
c. Sylvia dares to wear it
d. The classroom is cold
4. Rachel puts the sweater in the corner of her desk. Why?
a. she threw away the sweater
b. she knows it did not belong to her

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c. she saw another girl with the same sweater
d. she thinks someone else can wears it
5. At the end, what does Rachel wishes?
a. Sylvia had stayed home
b. her birthday would start over
c. she was 102 years old
d. she had never has gone to school
6. What is a synonym for the word alley?
a. passage
b. corridor
c. aisle
d. all of the above
7. What is an antonym for the word raggedy?
a. new
b. shabby
c. battered
d. broken

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8. The story’s first-person point of view lets you know that?
a. Rachel has balloons at her party
b. Rachel’s mother will call Mrs. Price
c. Rachel wishes her birthday was over
d. Rachel’s father will be home late
9. Rachel gets upset with __________ because remembers later that the sweater is
hers?
a. Karen
b. Phyllis
c. Mrs. Price
d. Sylvia
10.What does Rachel do after she puts on the sweater?
a. starts to scream at everyone
b. puts her head down and cries
c. begins her class work quietly
d. lies to Sylvia about the sweater

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DAY 14 QUESTIONS
Answer in complete sentences.
1. How does the mix-up is straightened out?
___________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________
2. Why does Rachel say the cake will be “too late”?
___________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________
3. Does Mrs. Price treat Rachel unfairly, or did she make an honest mistake?
Explain.
___________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________
Continue to Exercise 2…

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Exercise 2
Complete the diagram and determine which sentence represents each part of the plot.

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DAY 15 ESSAY WRITING
Directions: using the previous reading “Eleven” by Sandra Cisneros, you will write an
essay. You will investigate details in the short story and apply them in your life
experiences. Remember to fill in the outline using complete sentences.
Answer the following questions from the story.
1. What did the author need to explain to readers in the exposition section?
______________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________
2. What inciting event causes the action to begin to “rise”?
______________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________
3. Where does the story peak?
______________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________
4. Is there a clear climax, a decision-making moment, in the story?
______________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________
5. Which events lead up to the conclusion?
______________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________
6. How is the story resolved?
______________________________________________________________________
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DAY 16: LESSON 1 TEST
Answer the questions that follow.
Part I.
1. Which of the following words is an adverb?
a. hopped
b. swiftly
c. walk
d. tired
2. Which sentence has an adverb?
a. We all ran to school.
b. Difficult times lay ahead.
c. The house was beautiful.
d. Many people spoke loudly there.
3. Which sentence is written correctly?
a. The cat ran quickly door.
b. The cat quickly ran the out door.
c. The cat ran the door quickly out.
d. The cat ran quickly out the door.
4. Answer each question.
A. What is a thesis statement?
b) _____________________________________________________
B. Why do we use editing marks?
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5. The plot of a story is-
a. a conflict.
b. the solution.
c. many events.
d. different locations.
6. The rising action creates-
d) a. a turning point
e) b. the resolution to a problem
f) c. suspense, interest, and tension
g) d. an environment in which events happen
7. In the story “Eleven”, what bothered Rachel about the red sweater?
a. its red color
b. it belonged to Sylvia
c. it was old and smelly
d. it did not belong to her
8. Write a summary of the beginning, middle and ending parts of the story.
Beginning:
______________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________
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Middle:
______________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________
End:
______________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________
9. Answer both parts of the question.
A. How did Rachel feel about Mrs.Price?
_____________________________________________________________________
B. Write a detail that supports your answer.
_____________________________________________________________________
10.Why did Rachel want to be like a runaway balloon?
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DAY 17 WRAP UP
During the past few weeks, we have been working with analyzing short stories, and
writing. Let us create a review of what we have learned.
A. Mention the parts of a story and give examples according to your knowledge.
B. What have we learned until now about writing essays?
C. Mention the characteristics and essay should have.
Next, we will begin lesson 2. You will focus on writing a comparison and contrast essay.

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ANSWER KEY Lesson 1.
Comprehension: Reading “Leona” From Seedfolks by Paul Fleischman
1. c
2. a
3. b
4. c
5. d
6. a
7. a
8. c
9. d
10. c
1. Who is the chapter about?
The chapter is about Leona and how she helps her community.
2. Where do the events take place?
The events take place in an urban neighborhood called Seedfolks in Cleveland, Ohio.
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The story takes place during the 1980’s.
GRAMMAR
ADVERBS
1. a ----- To what extent will they go?
2. d ----- When did he pursue his dreams?
3. a ----- How often did she lay goldenrod flowers?
4. d ----- How many people were at the vacant lot?
5. b ----- Where did he go?
Comprehension: Reading “The First Day of School” by Edward P. Jones
1. c
2. d
3. a
4. d
5. a
Comprehension: Reading “ELEVEN” By Sandra Cisneros
1. c
2. d
3. a

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4. b
5. c
6. d
7. a
8. b
9. b
10. c
Rubric for OPEN ended questions at the end of the module.

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Rubric for ESSAY:

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LESSON 2
Objectives:
- After this lesson, students will be able to:
 Define the term 'conjunction', subordinating conjunctions, and correlative
conjunctions
 Identify the correct use of conjunctions in sentences
 Join a variety of independent and dependent clauses to improve sentences
 Be able to construct a comparison and contrast essay in response to reading
Reading
8R.1 Read a variety of grade-level texts and multimedia resources (when available) to
textual evidence to support analysis and conclusions drawn from the text.
Writing
8.W.2 Write informational texts to examine a topic and convey ideas, concepts, and
information through the selection, organization, and analysis of relevant content.
8.W.4 Develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, drafting, revising, editing,
use editing marks, rewriting, and publishing.
8.W.8 Write routinely for short and extended time frames (time for research, reflection,
and revision) for a variety of discipline-specific tasks, purposes, and audiences.

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DAY 18 CONJUNCTIONS
Conjunctions are words used to connect words around a sentence to make their meaning
clearer and logical. Conjunctions have differe types such as coordinating conjunctions,
subordinating conjunctions, and correlative conjunctions.
Remember, when you are writing an essay piece you will want to use a combination of
these three to make your essay to be cohesive.
Coordinating conjunctions simply connect two independent clauses to make two
sentences into one sentence. Remember that independent clauses can stand on their
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A subordinating conjunction is a word or phrase that links a dependent clause to an
independent clause. This word or phrase indicates that a clause has additional
information to add to the sentence’s main idea, either signaling a cause-and-effect
relationship or a shift in time and place between the two clauses. Remember that
dependent clauses cannot be alone but need extra information to make sense and
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Correlative conjunctions are conjunctions that work together in a pair.

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DAY 19 EXERCISES
Instructions: Select the conjunction that most fits the sentence.
1. Luis brushes his teeth ___ he has eaten supper.
a) after
b) or
c) while
d) and
2. It started to rain ___ the artist begun painting at the park.
a) while
b) since
c) or
d) them
3. We can go home ___ it gets dark.
a) since
b) while
c) as soon as
d) but
4. Give this gift to Maria ___ you see her.
a) when
b) since
c) until
d) before
5. She has known Pedro ___ high school.
a) when
b) as
c) after
d) since
6. _____ did the party begin late, _____ the artist never showed up.
a) Not only….but also
b) until….after
c) So….that
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7. Alice looked unhappy ___ she walked in.
a) since
b) as
c) and
d) or
8. I asked for some bread with butter _____ I was full already.
a) until
b) as
c) even though
d) and
9. Sarah is a good singer ___ a poor dancer.
a) but
b) until
c) after
d) as
10. Are you traveling by train ___ by bus?
a) or
b) as
c) since
d) for

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DAY 19 EXERCISE ANSWERS
1. a
2. a
3. c
4. a
5. d
6. a
7. a
8. c
9. a
10.a

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DAY 20 COMBINING SENTENCES PRACTICE
A good writer will change sentence patterns to make the writing more interesting to the
reader. One way to change the pattern is make sentences longer by combining two
sentences together. Too many short sentences in a paragraph makes the text sound
choppy and boring. Combining sentences makes the text flow more smoothly, and the
text becomes more interesting.
Example:
The dog ran to the fence. It began to bark.
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Rewrite the sentences below combining the sentences. You may add words, such as
conjunctions, as needed. Be careful to keep the meaning of the new sentence the same
as the original.
1. Joshua biked to school. Elizabeth went in a car.
2. The circus clown juggled china plates. She also rode a blue bicycle.
3. Monday is a school holiday. The class will take the test on Tuesday.
4. The blue chair is too big. The brown chair is too small.
5. I washed the dishes yesterday. I made the beds today.
6. Science is Kelly’s favorite subject. She wants to be a biologist.
7. No one saw the wolf in the yard. It was too dark.
8. Washington, D.C. is popular with tourists. I haven’t been there.

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DAY 21 VILLAGE IN ARGENTINA ARTICLE
STRANGE VILLAGE IN ARGENTINA
24-07-2020
Epecuen, which is 549 kilometers southwest of Buenos Aires, Argentina, once was a busy
lakeside village renowned for its saltwater baths.
This came to a sudden end in November 1985, though, when the town’s lake overflowed,
and water surged into the town. Locals and tourists were forced to evacuate and just days
later, their homes and buildings were covered by almost 10 meters of salt water.
Now, 30 years on, the village is one of Argentina’s tourist attractions once more; the water
has evaporated, and former residents can walk through the ruins of what was once their
town. It looks like a setting from a zombie apocalypse film.
Difficult words: renowned (known by many people), surge (move suddenly and
powerfully), evaporate (turn from liquid into vapor/gas), former (-ex).
You can listen to the audio of this article here: https://youtu.be/rur8qsxDf5U
You can hear more news about the event here: https://youtu.be/FwyDXgnphak

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DAY 22 NEWS ARTICLE ANALYSIS
Name of article: _______________________________Date: _________________
1. Answer briefly the following 5W and H questions about the article:
Who?
What?
Where?
When?
Why?
How?

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2. What is the topic of the article?
_____________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________
3. What do you know about this topic?
_____________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________
4. Which of the 5 Ws and H is the most important? And why?
______________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________
5. Describe the impact and how many people have been affected:
______________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________
6. What do you think of this article?
_____________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________
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DAY 23-24 FLOATING CINEMA
JULY 20, 2020
Parisians Enjoy Floating Cinema on The Seine River
BY DAKSHA MORJARIA
Paris residents recently enjoyed a movie while seated
inside electric boats on the River Seine (Credit:
quefaire.paris.fr)
On July 18, 2020, about 150 Paris residents
settled inside 38 electric boats floating on
the Seine river to enjoy a free screening
of LE GRAND BAIN — a 2018 comedy
about a group of middle-aged men forming
a synchronized swim team. The city's first
"Cinema sur L'Eau," or "Cinema on Water," was organized by MK2 Cinemas to
celebrate the June 22 reopening of the country's movie theaters, which had
been shuttered since mid-March to stem the rapid spread of the novel
coronavirus.
To comply with COVID-19 social distance guidelines, the boats, which could
each accommodate up to six family members, and the deck chairs set up on the
river bank to seat an additional 150 people, were situated at least six feet apart.
"It's been years, we're creating operations to take the cinema out of the cinema
rooms as a promotion tool, and after the few months of confinement, we thought
we needed a way to tell to the people and to tell to the world that cinemas are open
in Paris, that Paris is one of the worldwide capital of cinema, and also to create a
way for them to enjoy with their families a magnificent night," said Elisha Karmitz,
CEO of MK2 Cinemas.
The fun event was timed to coincide with the opening of the annual Paris Plages,
a beloved summertime tradition during which roads along the Seine are closed to
turn the waterfront into a temporary beachfront. This year's celebration, which will
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store for both kids and adults. They include swimming and water sports in the La
Villette canal basin, workshops, board games, and numerous sports-related
events to celebrate the XXXIII Olympic Games, which will be held in Paris from
July 26, 2024, to August 11, 2024.
In the US, where a resurgence in COVID-19 cases has caused most movie
theaters to remain closed, drive-in theaters are making a comeback. Popular in the
1950s, they allow cinema-goers to watch films, which are projected on a massive
screen, from the comfort of their cars. While the experience
previously entailed attaching a speaker to the car window, viewers can now obtain
the audio by tuning into the appropriate frequency on their car radios. This has
made it easy to instantly convert large empty fields, or even parking lots, into
temporary drive-ins.
As a result, more than just movies are being transformed into drive-in events. In
June 2020, music fans in Fort Collins, Colorado, were treated to a COVID-
19 iteration of the popular annual Beanstalk Music & Mountains Festival. Entitled
Beanstalk: At the Drive-In, the two-day event, held at the Holiday Twin Drive-In
Movie Theater, allowed the occupants of almost 400 cars, to enjoy the live music
without leaving the safety of their vehicles.
"The production angle went very smoothly," says festival co-owner and CEO Scott
Hachey, who is also the guitarist of the band Magic Beans. "The social distancing
aspect went very well as well, and we were excited with how our fans stuck next
to their cars most of the time."
In other parts of the country, makeshift drive-ins have also been used for high-
school graduations, church services, and even fitness classes.
The innovative adaptations are just one of the many examples of how people
worldwide are finding ways to enjoy normal activities during
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DAY 25 NEWS ARTICLE ANALYSIS
Name of article: _______________________________Date: _________________
1. Answer briefly the following 5W and H questions about the article:
Who?
What?
Where?
When?
Why?
How?

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2. What is the topic of the article?
_____________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________
3. What do you know about this topic?
_____________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________
4. Which of the 5 Ws and H is the most important? And why?
______________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________
5. Describe the impact and how many people have been affected:
______________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________
6. What do you think of this article?
_____________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________

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Strange
Village in
Argentina
Floating
Cinema
DAY 26 COMPARE AND CONTRAST
Instructions: Use the analysis of the articles to compare and contrast both
articles with the help of the following graphic organizer.
CONTRAST SIMILARITIES CONTRAST

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Comparative Essay Organization:
Example of alternating sentence:
Book A expresses a fond longing for the memories of the protagonist’s childhood. In
contrast, Book B shows loathing towards the memories of their childhood. For these
reasons, Book A has a more positive and optimistic view of the world.
You can find some examples of good comparative essays here:
https://betterlesson.com/community/document/61569/sample-comparative-essay
http://www.essaybyexample.com/free-essay-samples/essay-comparative-scifi-novels-
movies.php
Paragraph 1
Introduction
Paragraph 2
Similarities of both articles in alternating
sentences.
Paragraph 3
Differences of both articles in alternating
sentences.
Paragraph 4
Conclusion

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DAYS 27-28 COMPARATIVE ESSAY WRITING
Instructions: Compare and contrast both essays using the information that you have
previously analyzed from them. How do they differ?

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COMPARISON AND CONTRAST RUBRIC
4 3 2 1
Purpose &
Supporting
Details
The paper
compares and
contrasts items
clearly. The paper
points to specific
examples to
illustrate the
comparison. The
paper includes
only the
information
relevant to the
comparison.
The paper
compares and
contrasts items
clearly, but the
supporting
information is
general. The
paper includes
only the
information
relevant to the
comparison.
The paper
compares and
contrasts items
clearly, but the
supporting
information is
incomplete. The
paper may include
information that is
not relevant to the
comparison.
The paper
compares or
contrasts but does
not include both.
There is no
supporting
information or
support is
incomplete.
Organization &
Structure
The paper breaks
the
information into
point by-point
structure. It
follows a
consistent
order when
discussing
the comparison.
The paper breaks
the information
into point by-point
structure but does
not follow a
consistent order
when discussing
the comparison.
The paper breaks
the information
into point by-point
structure, but
some information
is in the wrong
section. Some
details are not in a
logical or
expected order,
and this distracts
the reader.
Many details are
not in a logical or
expected order.
There is little
sense that the
writing is
organized.
Transitions The paper moves
smoothly from one
idea to the next.
The paper uses
comparison and
contrast transition
words to show
relationships
between ideas.
The paper uses a
variety of
sentence
structures and
transitions.
The paper moves
from one idea to
the next, but there
is little variety.
The paper uses
comparison and
contrast transition
words to show
relationships
between ideas.
Some transitions
work well; but
connections
between other
ideas are fuzzy.
The transitions
between ideas are
unclear or
nonexistent.
Grammar &
Spelling
(Conventions)
Writer makes no
errors in grammar
or spelling that
distract the reader
from the content.
Writer makes 1-2
errors in grammar
or spelling that
distract the reader
from the content.
Writer makes 3-4
errors in grammar
or spelling that
distract the reader
from the content.
Writer makes
more than 4 errors
in grammar or
spelling that
distract the reader
from the content.
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DAY 29-31 LESSON 2 TEST
Part I: Conjunctions
Instructions: Select the most appropriate response to the question.
1. Conjunctions are:
a) Words that describe other sentences
b) Words that connect paragraphs logically
c) Words that connect clauses together logically
d) Words that describe other words
2. What are coordinating conjunctions?
a) They connect two independent clauses
b) They connect an independent clause with a dependent clause
c) They connect two dependent clauses
d) They work together in a pair to connect ideas in a sentence
3. What are subordinating conjunctions?
4. What are correlative conjunctions?

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Instructions: Identify the appropriate conjunction for each sentence.
1) My grandma takes me to the ice cream shop __________ I go to visit her.
a) Once
b) Whenever
c) Wherever
d) Sometimes
2) I plan to go to Italy ___________ this Christmas __________ the next.
a) Whether/ or
b) Either/ or
c) Whether/ and
d) Just as/ so
3) I turned in all of my essays on time, ___________ everyone else did not.
a) But
b) Yet
c) So
d) For
4) Everyone’s leaving in two days for school, ___________ or not they like it.
a) If
b) Whether
c) Though
d) However
5) Our trip to the canyon was exciting, ___________ we got the best deal for it.
a) But
b) For
c) Yet
d) And
6) Everyone knows that Emma is honest, ___________ everyone always trusts her.
a) Lest
b) When
c) So
d) And

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Part II: Reading Selection Village in Argentina
1. Where did the event occur?
a. Panama
b. Ecuador
c. Germany
d. Argentina
2. When did the event occur?
a. November 2019
b. July 2020
c. November 1985
d. February 1500
3. Who was affected?
a. The government
b. The country
c. Locals and tourists
d. The animals
4. What happened to at the beginning of the story?
a. The lake flooded the town
b. The lake disappeared
c. A volcano erupted
d. An earthquake destroyed the town
5. What happened at the end of the story?
a. The town was flooded with 10 meters of salt water
b. The water evaporated
c. A zombie apocalypse
d. A hurricane battered the town
6. What does the word renowned mean?
a. That it is popular
b. Nobody knows what it is
c. The location of an object

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d. Time of the incident
7. How did people describe the setting of the event after they returned to the town?
a. Like a garden full of flowers
b. Like a zombie apocalypse movie
c. Like an explosion
d. Like nothing happened
8. Surge means:
a. To move suddenly and powerfully
b. To create more water
c. To flow smoothly
d. To jump erratically
9. To overflow means:
a. To risk everything
b. To spread around
c. To flow under
d. To flow over the top
10.Evaporate means:
a. Turn solid into vapor
b. Turn liquid into vapor
c. Turn vapor into water
d. Turn from light to dark
Part III: Reading Selection Floating Cinema Vocabulary
1. Where did the event occur?
a. Italy
b. Ecuador
c. Germany
d. Argentina

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2. When did the event occur?
a. November 2019
b. July 2020
c. November 1985
d. February 1500
3. Who was affected?
a. The government
b. The country
c. Locals and tourists
d. The animals
4. What happened to at the beginning of the story?
a. The river flooded the town
b. Locals got on boats on the Seine river to watch a comedy
c. Locals got together to watch movies at the theater
d. Locals went fishing in the river
5. What happened at the end of the story?
a. People complained that the movie was not funny
b. People liked the movie
c. The event was a success according to the CEO
d. Everyone left
6. Another word for magnificent would be:
a. Accommodating
b. Impressive
c. Modest
d. Cheap
7. Appropriate means:
a. Something nice
b. Something that is suitable
c. Impressive
d. Something irrelevant

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8. Iteration means:
a. The repetition of a process
b. To convey an example
c. To carry out a job
d. To specify a subject
9. Innovative means:
a. To conserve old rules
b. To react to an event
c. To see clearly
d. Create a new method
10.Unprecedented means:
a. Something that has never been expected before
b. Supernatural
c. An event of normal circumstances
d. A case to solve

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LESSON 3
Objectives:
- After this lesson, students will be able to:
 Define and analyze the different kinds of literary conflicts
 Identify protagonists, antagonists and conflicts from text
 Summarize Kate Chopin’s biography
 Analyze the Story of an Hour short story
Reading
8R.1 Read a variety of grade-level texts and multimedia resources (when available) to
textual evidence to support analysis and conclusions drawn from the text.
8.R.2La Provide an objective summary of the text.
8.R.3La Distinguish character traits (internal and external).
8.R.3I Analyze the interactions between individuals, events, and ideas in an
informational text (e.g., how ideas influence individuals or events, or how individuals
influence ideas or events).
Writing
8.W.2 Write informational texts to examine a topic and convey ideas, concepts, and
information through the selection, organization, and analysis of relevant content.

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DAY 32 LITERARY CONFLICTS
Remember that protagonists are the main character of the story and that the story
revolves around the protagonist. The story may have an antagonist who is working
against the protagonist’s goal and create conflict.
In literature, conflicts are a struggle between two opposing forces that can be internal
or external.
Internal vs. External Conflict
External Conflict
It is driven by an outside force from the
character
Person vs Person
Person vs Society
Person vs Nature
Person vs
Technology
Internal Conflict
Happens inside the
character's mind
Person vs. Self Conflict

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CONFLICT EXAMPLES

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CONFLICT IN WRITING EXAMPLE

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DAY 33-36 CONFLICT EXERCISES
Directions: Read the description of the story. Determine the protagonist (central
character) and antagonist (opposing force). Then describe the type of conflict (example:
person vs. nature).
1. After breaking his mother's favorite vase, Casey struggles to decide whether he should
tell his mother the truth or attempt to hide his mistake and blame the family dog.
Protagonist: _____________________ Antagonist: _____________________
Type of Conflict: _____________________
2. Kiko is a ninja warrior trained by Mountain Master Yoho Mahrati. When Master Mahrati
is slain by Shan Bhutan of the Lotus Clan in the most cowardly of fashions, Kiko lays it all
on the line to avenge the death of his master. Will Kiko overcome Shan Bhutan and the
powerful Lotus Clan?
Type of Conflict: _____________________
3. It's the year 3030 and society is completely dependent on computers and robots. A
young boy named Domino is flying his hovering board to school when all the machines
start attacking people due to a powerful computer virus. What will Domino do now that
the machines that are supposed to help him have turned against him?
Type of Conflict: _____________________

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4. Brian has the best dog in the world. In fact, he has one of the only dogs in the world.
That's because dogs are not allowed in Brian's world, where people believe that dogs
spread diseases. Brian's dog will be executed if he is caught. Soon Brian learns of a
mysterious underground dog owners club and joins the fight to legalize dogs. Can Brian
and his new friends prove to the world that dogs are safe and friendly?
Type of Conflict: _____________________
5. Janie is on a whitewater-rafting trip along a choppy river when their guide suddenly has
a heart attack. Now she and the other passengers must learn to work together to survive
the treacherous rapids. As if things weren't bad enough, some of the passengers have
spotted a bear following the confused rafters along the shore. Will Janie make it home
safely?
Type of Conflict: _____________________
Morton, D. (2014). Types of Conflict. E-Reading Worksheets. Retrieved from:
https://www.ereadingworksheets.com/

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ANSWER KEY CONFLICT EXERCISES
1) Protagonist: ________Casey______ Antagonist: _______Casey___________
Type of Conflict: __Person vs Self______
2) Protagonist: _________Kiko_______ Antagonist: ____Shan Bhutan________
Type of Conflict: __Person vs Person____
3) Protagonist: _________Domino_____ Antagonist: Robots and Computers___
Type of Conflict: _Person vs Technology_
4) Protagonist: ________Brian_________ Antagonist: _______Society_________
Type of Conflict: ____Person vs Society__
5) Protagonist: ________ Janie_________ Antagonist: ________the bear______
Type of Conflict: ____Person vs Nature___

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DAY 37 BIOGRAPHY
American author Kate Chopin (1850–1904) wrote two published novels and about a
hundred short stories in the 1890s. Most of her fiction is set in Louisiana and most of her
best-known work focuses on the lives of sensitive, intelligent women.
Her short stories were well received in her own time and were
published by some of America’s most prestigious
magazines—Vogue, the Atlantic Monthly, Harper’s Young
People, Youth’s Companion, and the Century. A few stories
were syndicated by the American Press Association. Her
stories appeared also in her two published collections, Bayou
Folk (1894) and A Night in Acadie (1897), both of which
received good reviews from critics across the country. Twenty-six of her stories
are children’s stories—those published in or submitted to children’s magazines or those
similar in subject or theme to those that were. By the late 1890s Kate Chopin was well
known among American readers of magazine fiction.
Her early novel At Fault (1890) had not been much noticed by the public, but The
Awakening (1899) was widely condemned. Critics called it morbid, vulgar, and
disagreeable. Willa Cather, who would become a well-known twentieth-century American
author, labeled it trite and sordid.
Some modern scholars have written that the novel was banned at Chopin’s hometown
library in St. Louis, but this claim has not been able to be verified, although in 1902, the
Evanston, Illinois, Public Library removed The Awakening from its open shelves—and the
book has been challenged twice in recent years. Chopin’s third collection of stories, to
have been called A Vocation and a Voice, was for unknown reasons cancelled by the
publisher and did not appear as a separate volume until 1991.
Chopin’s novels were mostly forgotten after her death in 1904, but several of her
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reprinted over the years, and slowly people again came to read her. In the 1930s a Chopin
biography appeared which spoke well of her short fiction but dismissed The
Awakening as unfortunate. However, by the 1950s scholars and others recognized that
the novel is an insightful and moving work of fiction. Such readers set in motion a Kate
Chopin revival, one of the more remarkable literary revivals in the United States.
After 1969, when Per Seyersted’s biography, one sympathetic to The Awakening, was
published, along with Seyersted’s edition of her complete works, Kate Chopin became
known throughout the world. She has attracted great attention from scholars and
students, and her work has been translated into other languages, including Albanian,
Arabic, Catalan, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, French, Galician, German, Hungarian,
Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malayalam, Persian (Farsi), Polish, Portuguese,
Serbian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, and Vietnamese. She is today understood as a
classic writer who speaks eloquently to contemporary concerns. The Awakening, “The
Storm,” “The Story of an Hour,” “Désirée’s Baby,” “A Pair of Silk Stockings,” “A
Respectable Woman,” “Athénaïse,” and other stories appear in countless editions and
are embraced by people for their sensitive, graceful, poetic depictions of women’s lives.

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DAY 38 BIOGRAPHY SUMMARY
Instructions: Summarize Kate Chopin’s biography by using the following graphic
organizer. Then write it in paragraph form with the help of the graphic organizer.
Early Life (Write 2 sentences)
Character Traits (Write 3 character traits)
What is she famous for? (Write 2 sentences)
State 2 facts in complete sentences that you fond
interesting about her

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DAY 39 BIOGRAPHY SUMMARY
Write a summary of the biography by using the graphic organizer that you completed on
the day before. (No less than 5 sentences)

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DAY 40-42 THE STORY OF AN HOUR
By Kate Chopin (1894)
Knowing that Mrs. Mallard was afflicted with a heart trouble, great care was taken to break
to her as gently as possible the news of her husband's death.
It was her sister Josephine who told her, in broken sentences; veiled hints that revealed
in half concealing. Her husband's friend Richards was there, too, near her. It was he who
had been in the newspaper office when intelligence of the railroad disaster was received,
with Brently Mallard's name leading the list of "killed." He had only taken the time to assure
himself of its truth by a second telegram, and had hastened to forestall any less careful,
less tender friend in bearing the sad message.
She did not hear the story as many women have heard the same, with a paralyzed inability
to accept its significance. She wept at once, with sudden, wild abandonment, in her
sister's arms. When the storm of grief had spent itself, she went away to her room alone.
She would have no one follow her.
Analyze the picture to the right.
What do you see?
What is she wearing and what color
could it be?
Why is she wearing that color?
Why is she smiling?
How do you think that it relates to the
story?
ANALYZE THE PICTURE

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There stood, facing the open window, a comfortable, roomy armchair. Into this she sank,
pressed down by a physical exhaustion that haunted her body and seemed to reach into
her soul.
She could see in the open square before her house the tops of trees that were all aquiver
with the new spring life. The delicious breath of rain was in the air. In the street below a
peddler was crying his wares. The notes of a distant song which some one was singing
reached her faintly, and countless sparrows were twittering in the eaves.
There were patches of blue sky showing here and there through the clouds that had met
and piled one above the other in the west facing her window.
She sat with her head thrown back upon the cushion of the chair, quite motionless, except
when a sob came up into her throat and shook her, as a child who has cried itself to sleep
continues to sob in its dreams.
She was young, with a fair, calm face, whose lines bespoke repression and even a certain
strength. But now there was a dull stare in her eyes, whose gaze was fixed away off
yonder on one of those patches of blue sky. It was not a glance of reflection, but rather
indicated a suspension of intelligent thought.
There was something coming to her and she was waiting for it, fearfully. What was it?
She did not know; it was too subtle and elusive to name. But she felt it, creeping out of
the sky, reaching toward her through the sounds, the scents, the color that filled the air.
Now her bosom rose and fell tumultuously. She was beginning to recognize this thing that
was approaching to possess her, and she was striving to beat it back with her will--as
powerless as her two white slender hands would have been. When she abandoned
herself, a little whispered word escaped her slightly parted lips. She said it over and over
under the breath: "free, free, free!" The vacant stare and the look of terror that had
followed it went from her eyes. They stayed keen and bright. Her pulses beat fast, and
the coursing blood warmed and relaxed every inch of her body.

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She did not stop to ask if it were or were not a monstrous joy that held her. A clear and
exalted perception enabled her to dismiss the suggestion as trivial. She knew that she
would weep again when she saw the kind, tender hands folded in death; the face that had
never looked save with love upon her, fixed and gray and dead. But she saw beyond that
bitter moment a long procession of years to come that would belong to her absolutely.
And she opened and spread her arms out to them in welcome.
There would be no one to live for during those coming years; she would live for herself.
There would be no powerful will bending hers in that blind persistence with which men
and women believe they have a right to impose a private will upon a fellow-creature. A
kind intention or a cruel intention made the act seem no less a crime as she looked upon
it in that moment of illumination.
And yet she had loved him--sometimes. Often, she had not. What did it matter! What
could love, the unsolved mystery, count for in the face of this possession of self-assertion
which she suddenly recognized as the strongest impulse of her being!
"Free! Body and soul free!" she kept whispering.
Josephine was kneeling before the closed door with her lips to the keyhole, imploring for
admission. "Louise, open the door! I beg; open the door--you will make yourself ill. What
are you doing, Louise? For heaven's sake open the door."
"Go away. I am not making myself ill." No; she was drinking in a very elixir of life through
that open window.
Her fancy was running riot along those days ahead of her. Spring days, and summer
days, and all sorts of days that would be her own. She breathed a quick prayer that life
might be long. It was only yesterday she had thought with a shudder that life might be
long.
She arose at length and opened the door to her sister's importunities. There was a
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She clasped her sister's waist, and together they descended the stairs. Richards stood
waiting for them at the bottom.
Someone was opening the front door with a latchkey. It was Brently Mallard who entered,
a little travel-stained, composedly carrying his gripsack and umbrella. He had been far
from the scene of the accident and did not even know there had been one. He stood
amazed at Josephine's piercing cry; at Richards' quick motion to screen him from the view
of his wife.
When the doctors came, they said she had died of heart disease--of the joy that kills.

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DAY 43-44 OPINION PIECE GRAPHIC ORGANIZER ANALYSIS
Does the picture make sense after reading the
story? How does it make sense?
Character Traits (Write 3 character traits)
What happened at the end of the story?
What do you think caused the ending of the story?
Why do you think that Chopin wrote this story?
How does it relate to the 19th century?

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DAY 45-47 OPINION PIECE
Instructions: Using the graphic organizer write a complete paragraph comparing her life
to the “The Story of an Hour”. What impacted you the most about her biography and her
story? Why do you think Kate Chopin’s purpose was on writing the story?
8-10 Sentences

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DAY 48-50 LESSON 3 TEST
Part I: Conflicts
5. What is conflict?
a) Person vs Person
b) The characters who are fighting
c) A struggle between two forces
d) A disaster
6. Which of these is NOT a kind of conflict?
a) Person vs Society
b) Person vs Aliens
c) Person vs Technology
d) Person vs Person
7. When a conflict is internal it means that it happens in…
a) A closed space
b) Inside an imaginary box
c) Inside a person’s thoughts and
feelings
d) A character’s environment
8. When a conflict is external it means that it happens from…
a) The force that is within the
character
b) A force that is supernatural
c) A force that is in struggle with the
characters
d) A force that is outside of a
character’s control
9. A protagonist is…
a) A secondary character
b) The villain
c) The conflict of a story
d) The main character of a story

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Instructions: Read the following paragraph and answer the questions choosing the
most appropriate answer.
Everything was going just fine for Mae until yesterday. That was when she found out that
her eyes were turning green. In Mae's world people discriminate against those with green
eyes. Green-eyed people cannot vote or hold public office and they are often forced to
work the worst jobs for the least pay if they can even find a job. Mae's parents want her
to have surgery to change her eye color, but her grandma, who also has green eyes,
encourages her to fight for her rights. With her grandma behind her, Mae joins a
resistance movement and becomes the poster child for green-eyed rights, but how will all
of this attention affect Mae's family, especially her parents who wanted her to hide who
she was?
10.Who is the Antagonist?
a) Mae
b) Mae’s Family
c) The resistant movement
d) The government
11.Who is the protagonist?
a) Mae
b) Mae’s Family
c) The resistance movement
d) The government
12.What type of conflict is the protagonist facing?
a) Person vs Society
b) Person vs Person
d) Person vs Nature

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Instructions: Read the following paragraph and answer the questions choosing the
most appropriate answer.
Jack Juniper is the best fighter pilot in the Air Force. He can take down an enemy jet while
doing a barrel roll. One day while Jack is escorting some friendly pilots to a military base,
something that Jack has never seen before attacks the convoy... aliens! Can Jack
outmaneuver the highly skilled alien pilots or is the mission doomed to failure?
13.Who is the Antagonist?
a) Aliens
b) Jack Juniper
c) The Air Force
d) The government
14.Who is the protagonist?
a) Aliens
b) Jack Juniper
c) The Air Force
d) The government
15.What type of conflict is the protagonist facing?
a) Person vs Supernatural
b) Person vs Person
d) Person vs Nature

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Part II: Story of an Hour Comprehension Questions
16.When is this story taking place?
a. 1800
b. 1900
c. 2000
d. 2010
17.The story is written in __________ perspective
a. First person
b. Second person
c. Third person
18.What does the word “aquiver” mean?
a. Laughing
b. Trembling
c. Nervously
d. Timidly
19.What is the title of the story referring to?
a. How long the story takes to
read
b. There is no title
c. The time that the story takes
place
d. The name of a TV show
20.Who announces the death of Mr. Mallard?
a. Friar John
b. Richards
c. Josephine
d. Roberts
21.What is most important about the story’s setting?
a. Women did not have much
freedom or rights during this
time
b. It is in a large house
c. It takes place for one hour
d. It has no importance

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22.What does “tumultuously” mean?
a. Calm
b. Small
c. Disordered
d. Pretentious
23.What is the tone of the story?
a. Ironic
b. Joyful
c. Optimistic
d. Depressing
24.What is the theme of the story?
a. Death in the 20th century
b. Oppressiveness of marriage
in traditional values
c. Remorse of owning too much
money
d. Life in a happily ever after
marriage
25. The conflict of the main character in the story is…
a. Internal
b. External
c. Environmental
d. Platonic

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Part III: Story Analysis
Answer each question:
1. How was Mrs. Mallard’s “heart trouble” significant to the story?
2. Describe the views of marriage in the story. Do these views still apply today?
3. Explain in detail how freedom is represented in the story. How do you think that
the freedom relates to the author? How does the author’s view influence the
views in the story?

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READING OPEN-ENDED ITEM – 2 POINTS
The rubric describes exactly how the students should elaborate their answer. To
obtain the full score, answers should be brief, clear, and supported by the reading
selection. If students write a response that is partially deviated or incomplete, they will
obtain 1 point. Students will not get any points if they fail to provide a response or
write answers that clearly detract from the question.
Rubric Description
2  Full Reading comprehension – A thorough understanding of the
reading concept has been demonstrated. The student’s response is
correct and complete and provides evidence of higher-order thinking
related to the question/task. Details in the response are clear,
accurate, and text based.
1  Partial Reading Comprehension – Partial understanding of the reading
concepts has been demonstrated. The student’s response provides
some information that is text-based and accurate. However, the
response is not complete and may not provide clear evidence of
higher-order thinking related to the question/task.
0  Little or No Reading Comprehension – the student’s response
demonstrates very little or no understanding of the reading concept
being assessed. The response is inaccurate or unrelated to the
question/task.
Responses can be written in Spanish, English, or a combination of languages.
Language and writing conventions are not considered when assigning a score to a
short-answer item measuring English Reading Comprehension.

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