Book of the Dead Review

How is Annie's artwork similar to the Egyptian art of mummification?

• Preserves loved ones

• Endures forever

• Explains death

• Is in museums

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CCSS.RI.3.9

CCSS.RI.5.7

CCSS.RI.K.9

CCSS.RL.4.7

CCSS.RL.5.7

Identify the oxymoron: I hear my mother lovingly scolding him and telling him not to leave me again.

• hear my mother

• leave me again

• telling him not to

• lovingly scolding

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CCSS.RL. 6.5

CCSS.RL.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.4.5

CCSS.RL.K.5

What does the oxymoron in the sentence mean? I hear my mother lovingly scolding him and telling him not to leave me again.

• Annie is afraid her parents may separate.

• Annie's parents care for each other even when they disagree.

• Annie's father resents the way people speak to him.

• Annie's mother is overpowering of her father.

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

Which is the first event in the story?

• Annie and her father travel to Florida.

• Annie creates the sculpture of her father.

• Annie's parents move to Haiti.

• Annie's father works in a prison.

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CCSS.RL.1.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.4.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.K.3

The reference to a praying mantis symbolizes ...

• Fear is inside all of us

• Beauty and ugliness

• Good behavior and violence

• Truth and deceit

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CCSS.RI.2.2

CCSS.RI.4.2

CCSS.RI.5.2

CCSS.RI.6.2

CCSS.RI.K.2

Why does Annie's father talk about The Book of the Dead?

• He feels heavy-hearted and unworthy of the other world

• He wants to interrupt the silence and doesn't know what else to talk about

• He feels like the judge who decides who enters the other world

• He wants something to read

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CCSS.RI.3.1

CCSS.RI.5.1

CCSS.RI.6.1

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.6.1

Which quote supports the answer you gave in the previous question?

• "Are you dying?" I say to my father.

• "I don't deserve a statue."

• "We have a proverb," he said.

• "I think I hear crickets."

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

Add a noun phrase to this sentence. Annie's father disliked the hotel room.

• Annie's father didn't like the hotel room.

• Annie's father, nodding his head, approved of the hotel room.

• Annie's father disliked the hotel room with red carpet.

• Annie's father nodded to show he approved of the hotel room.

Add a verb phrase to make this sentence more detailed. She walked.

• She walked slowly to the park with her friend.

• She was in hurry while walking.

• She decided not to walk.

• She skipped as she walked.

What is a theme of the story?

• People can be beautiful.

• Time forgives all wounds.

• Art reveals truths.

• People don't always have to agree.

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CCSS.RL.3.9

CCSS.RL.4.2

CCSS.RL.4.9

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.5.9