Lineage/Family

In "Lineage" and "Family," what is similar about each speaker's discussion of her relatives?

• Each speaker clearly describes her relatives' specific.

• Each speaker feels that she has nothing in common with her relatives.

• Each speaker strongly feels that she has become just like her relatives.

• Each speaker sees what makes her relatives different from one another.

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.W.7.9A

In “Family,” what do the details suggest most clearly about the background of the speaker’s family members?

• They have had fairly easy lives.

• They are not very well educated.

• They were not all born in America.

• They all have held interesting jobs.

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.1

Which statements best describe the speaker’s grandmothers in “Lineage”? Choose three options.

• They enjoyed music

• They were good cooks.

• They had many children.

• They were hard workers.

• They were powerful women

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.W.7.9A

What does the context suggest is the most likely meaning of toil in these lines from "Lineage"?

      They followed plows and bent to toil.
      They moved through fields sowing seed. (lines 2–3)

• labor

• trouble

• farming

• tiredness

Tags

CCSS.L.7.4A

CCSS.RL.7.4

What does the context suggest is the most likely meaning of sowing in these line from "Lineage"?

      They moved through fields sowing seed.
      They touched earth and grain grew. (lines 3–4)

• losing

• planting

• watching

• harvesting

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

Part A
What does the context suggest is the most likely meaning of sturdiness in these lines from "Lineage"?

They were full of sturdiness and singing.
My grandmothers were strong. (lines 5–6)

• fairness

• loudness

• toughness

• willingness

Tags

CCSS.L.7.4A

CCSS.L.7.4D

CCSS.RL.7.4

Part B
Which word or phrase in the lines is the context clue that best supports the answer to Part A?

• full of

• singing

• My grandmothers

• strong

Tags

CCSS.L.7.4A

CCSS.RL.7.4

Part A
In "Family," which of the speaker's relatives has most clearly experienced pain and loss?

• her aunt

• her father

• her mother

• her grandmother

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.W.7.9A

Part B
Which quotation from "Family" best supports the answer to Part A?

• My father was brilliant embarrassed funny handsome (line 13)

• my mother was plain serious principled kind (line 14)

• my grandmother was intelligent lonesome for her / other life her dead children silent (lines 15–16)

• my aunt was beautiful bitter angry loving (line 17)

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.W.7.9A

Part A In "Lineage,” what does the speaker most clearly wonder about her grandmothers?

• Where did her grandmothers live and work?

• What memories do her grandmothers have?

• Why is she so different from her grandmothers?

• What were the songs that her grandmothers sang?

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.1