Rescue at the Water's Edge - Scholastic

Which is an example of a coalition?

• members of a high school basketball team who go out for pizza together every Friday night

• 10 student councils from across a state working together to reduce school waste

• a group of kids that disagree on school guidelines

Which skill would be more important for a mariner to have?

• the ability to communicate through writing

• the ability to paint watercolors

• the ability to swim

Which word is most similar in meaning to converge?

• separate

• gather

• diverge

The trail map showed three hiking routes that all ____________ at the lake.

• converged

• billowed

• throttled

The captain slowly pressed the ____________ forward until the boat reached top speed.

• billow

• mariner

• throttle

Ash ____________ into the sky above the erupting volcano.

• coalition

• converged

• billowed

The __________ branch of the United States military is the Coast Guard.

• coalition

• maritime

• converge

In the introduction, author Allison Friedman portrays the Twin Towers as

• beautiful and iconic.

• old and charming.

• small and simple.

• new and unusual.

Friedman writes, "At first, Perez didn't take the alarm seriously. Lately, it had been malfunctioning." Based on context clues, malfunction means ____________.

• to run out of power

• to turn off and on

• to not work properly

• to work well

In the section "All Available Boats!", Friedman uses a ____________ text structure to ____________.

• cause and effect; explain why people had to be evacuated from lower Manhattan on September 11

• sequence of events; show how mariners evacuated people from lower Manhattan on September 11

• list; to show how many people helped evacuate people on September 11

• compare and contrast; show the differences between the evacuation on September 11 and other maritime evacuations