"One Friday Morning" Close Reading Checkpoint

In the first paragraph, Nancy Lee is described as

• a good artist

• calm and quiet

• nervous and anxious

• calm and proud

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.1

In the first paragraph, "authentic" means

• real

• silly

• kind

• wrong

In the second paragraph, we learn that Nancy Lee goes to

• Artist Club High School

• Joe Williams High School

• Meadow Brook High School

• George Washington High School

In the second paragraph, the word "banquet" means

• a ceremony

• a formal meal for many people

• a building used for parties

• a painting

In the third paragraph, "she stood high in scholarship" means

• Nancy Lee was tall.

• Nancy Lee's parents didn't have to pay for her to go to college.

• Nancy Lee received good grades in school.

• Nancy Lee stood up a lot in class.

Miss Dietrich was Nancy Lee's

• English teacher

• science teacher

• art teacher

• principal

Miss Dietrich wanted her students' work to be

• difficult

• on time

• correct

• original

Tags

CCSS.W.7.1B

The narrator tells us that Nancy Lee's

• mother was a social worker

• father was a social worker

• mother was a high school teacher

• father came from Africa

The picture Nancy Lee entered in the contest depicted

• a family sitting at their dinner table

• people enjoying a spring day in a city park

• protester carrying signs for equal rights

• a snowy mountain in the middle of winter

One April day, the assistant principal called Nancy to the office because

• she had won the annual art scholarship

• she had an F in chemistry

• she had passed a note to her friend in French class

• she had passed a note to Sallie in study hall