Previewing and Counterfeit Masterpiece

What is the first step to previewing a text?

• Read the text

• Highlight proper nouns on the text

• Look at the multiple-choice questions

• Color the pictures with your highlighter.

What are you supposed to do with Who: on the Planning Sheet Previewing?

• Make a list of the characters in the story and define who they are.

• Name the author of the story and research information about them.

• Write down the ending of the story.

• Explain the theme of the story.

What are you supposed to do with the What: on the Planning Sheet Previewing?

• Explain how the possible conflict of the story.

• Write down the story’s introduction.

• Predict what you think is the story’s conflict.

• Explain the author’s background and education.

In section #2, The most important idea to understand and remember for this reading on the Planning Sheet Previewing is asking the student to…

• Predict your future

• Predict the story’s theme or outcome

• Predict the story’s main character

• Predict the story’s exposition and rising action

Under #2 in the section titled Important key concepts, subheadings, bolded print, etc. is referring to…

• The author’s use of punctuation.

• The author’s use of dialogue

• The author’s use of vocabulary and text features

• The author’s use of his spelling.

In the story “Counterfeit Masterpiece” Amanda knew…

• the painter had to have seen a pineapple.

• no fruit was brought to Italy until after the 2000s.

• about the history of early Italian and European art.

• all paintings of pictures with pineapples were counterfeit.

What is the meaning of ornate in paragraph 1?

• an old museum

• having a lot of decoration, fancy

• to walk in a slow manner

• having a strong odor

Amanda’s actions at the end of the story are significant because they reveal that she-

• has learned that a field trip to the museum will bring a reward with the director.

• understands that speaking up will send her to the principal’s office.

• is ready to go home and tell her family about the counterfeit.

• realizes that people in Europe had never seen a pineapple in the 1300s.

What is the main problem of the story?

• Amanda has a strong background in art history and she must prove herself.

• Pineapples are a native fruit to Central and South America and cause artists problems.

• Amanda must speak up even if people disagree with her words because she is young.

• Amanda becomes angry and disrespectful and must stand up for her beliefs.

Where does the story take place?

• In a park

• In a school

• In an art class

• In a museum