My Side of the Mountain Ch 13-15

Who invades Sam's house on Halloween night?

• Hunters

• A fox

• Baron Weasel

• Raccoons

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CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.4.3

As Sam begins to prepare for winter he realizes he is missing....

• Extra food

• Extra wood

• Warm shelter

• Warm clothes

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.4.2

TRUE or FALSE:

Sam has no trouble building the fire place in his tree.

• TRUE

• FALSE

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CCSS.RL.4.1

"The winds are cool, the stars are like electric light bulbs."

This sentence from ch. 14 is an example of....

• A Metaphor

• Alliteration

• Personification

• A Simile

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CCSS.L.4.5A

Sam stacked his wood in ______________ so he could tunnel through it in the winter.

• An X shaped wood pile

• A S shaped wood pile

• Rows of 3

• Rows of 5

Why does Sam feel sad when Bando leaves?

• Bando and Sam had a fight and he left angry.
• Bando ruined the bed Sam made.
• Sam is sad because Bando was fun to be with; he can make useful things from natural resources
• Sam is sad because Bando said he would tell the police he was living in the mountains.

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CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.W.4.1B

Sam sees signs of the coming winter in the way animals behave. What are some of these signs?

• The weasel's coat changes
• raccoons fatten up
• squirrels store food
• all of the above

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.1

As winter approaches, Sam gives a lot of attention to how to keep warm. One way to keep warm is through making warm clothes. What is the other way?

• Sam figures out a way to use snow to insulate the tree house like eskimos
• Sam builds a fireplace out of wood outside the treehouse
• Sam builds a fireplace of clay inside the tree house
• None of the above

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CCSS.RL.4.1

What were the two problems Sam encountered with his fireplace? 

• He has to figure out how to keep an all-clay fireplace from collapsing and how to make sure the fire doesn't pull all the oxygen from the house. 
• His fireplace is not warm and the tree keeps catching on fire.
• He has to go outside to keep warm and the snow makes him wet.
• None of the above

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CCSS.RI.4.1

CCSS.RI.4.3

Sam says that he has never experienced a “more real” Halloween night.  What do you think he means? 

• There were ghosts and goblins all around.
• Children from the village came and played tricks on him.
• The animals made a mess of his tree house and camp.  The fox stood back and "laughed" at him.
• He was never more scared in his life.

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.4.2

CCSS.W.4.1A