Here you will find questions for the stories that we will be reading each week in class. Students will be expected to answer all of these questions before Friday's class. All of the answers should be complete sentences and should list the page number in which the student can find the answer to the question in the book. (This assignment will be posted on Google Classroom each week)
Language Arts Questions
Language Arts Questions
- What phrases suggest Joseph and his Grandfather are in a hurry to get to town? Quote accurately from the text in your answer.
- In what ways were the continentals and the militia the same and different?
- To what does Joseph Martin compare the pen when he says “he loaded it with the fatal charge”? Why?
- What does Joseph Martin mean when he says he was a soldier “in name at least”?
- What evidence does the author offer to support the idea that Joseph is a curious person?
- What details help readers see what Joseph saw after the ferry arrived in Brooklyn?
- What context clues help you to define the term cover?
- Why were the Americans “soon dashing for their lives”?
- Why did Joseph feel “older than Fifteen” when he was discharged?
- What is ironic, or unexpected, about Joseph’s decision to enlist and fight for six more years?
- What do you learn about Sybil from the details provided by the author?
- How does the map relate to the author’s purpose in this biography?
- What evidence can be quoted from the text to support the idea that Sybil’s task will expose her to danger?
- Why does the author include the last sentence on page 460? Does this information affect the significance of Sybil’s achievement?
- What is the point of view of the speaker? How does this point of view affect how the story is told?
- Summarize what happens in the third stanza.
- How do the events of the third stanza fit together with the events in the fourth stanza?
- This poem tells a story but also conveys the poet’s message or theme about Paul Revere’s actions. What theme is suggested by the details about sparks and flames?