"Bridging the Generational Divide Between a Football Father..."

Why do the father and son disagree?

• The father believes that football is the highest form of sport, but his son believes that soccer is.

• The father believes that soccer is the higest form of sport, but his son believes that football is.

• The father believes that his son should be able to name more than eight professional football players.

• The son believes that his father does not understand how fluid and graceful professional soccer is.

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CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

CCSS.RL.5.3

Why does the author call the disagreement a "generational divide?

• Football is played in the US, but soccer is played in other parts of the world.

• People of the author's age like football, but people of the son's age like soccer.

• The argument cannot be settled because football and soccer are such different sports.

• It takes different kinds of skills to play soccer than it does to play football.

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CCSS.RI.7.9

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RI.7.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RI.8.9

what does the father decide about soccer?

• He will always like football better, but soccer is a good sport for his son.

• Soccer probably will become more popular than football some day.

• Soccer will never touch his feelings the way football does.

• He will reconsider his ideas and feelings about soccer.

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CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

CCSS.RL.5.3

What is the best meaning of piped?

An awkward pause ensued before another boy finally piped up with "Ray Rice." I groaned.

• spoke

• named

• thought

• challenged

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CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Best meaning for concede?

I had to give him that one. While I had lost one battle, I wasn't about to concede the war. I told him that football had more offense, and that watching scoreless soccer games for ninety minutes was as dry as watching C-Span with the volume off

• argue about

• intensify

• give up

• ignore

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CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

What does fervently mean in the passage?

I suddenly remembered a conversation I had with my own father when I was my son's age. My father, the starting catcher on his college baseball team, spoke passionately of why football was America's national pastime. I argued just as fervently that football was now America's national game.

• done quickly

• done in anger

• done with great caution

• done with strong feeling

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CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

What does the following conversation show about the father and son?

Will: Soccer is a more fluid game, requiring skill endurance, and grace.

Dad: Football has all that, too, but the players don't act like they've been mortally wounded every time an opposing player brushes against them.

• Neither the father nor the son knows much about sports.

• They view sports with humor as well as admiration

• Their disagreement will soon turn into a heated argument

• The father knows more about sports than his son does.

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CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.2.6

Who wins the argument in the story?

• both the author and his son

• the author's son

• the son's friend

• the author

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CCSS.RI.7.8

CCSS.SL.7.3