VIC List 2 Study Homework

1. “The children lay out, laughing, on the jungle mattress, and heard it sigh and squeak under them, _______________ and alive. They ran among the trees, they slipped and fell, they pushed each other, they played hide-and-seek and tag, but most of all, they squinted at the sun until the tears ran down their faces; they put their hands up to that yellowness and that amazing blueness, and they breathed of the fresh, fresh air and listened to the silence which suspended them in a blessed sea of no sound and no motion.” (Page 474)

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CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RL.1.4

1. “Then, for the first time, she turned and looked at him. And what she was waiting for was in her eyes.

"Well, don't wait around here!" cried the boy ________________. "You won't see anything!"

Her lips moved.” (Page 473)

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

1. “All a joke !" said the boy, and ______________ her roughly. "Hey, everyone, let's put her in a closet before the teacher comes!"

"No," said Margot, falling back.

They surged about her, caught her up and bore her, protesting, and then pleading, and then crying, back into a tunnel, a room, a closet, where they slammed and locked the door.” (Page 474)

1. “Only when they sang about the sun and the summer did her lips move as she watched the _____________ windows. And then, of course, the biggest crime of all was that she had come here only five years ago from Earth, and she remembered the sun and the way the sun was and the sky was when she was four in Ohio.” (Page 473)

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CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

1. “Where's the teacher?"

"She'll be back."

"She'd better hurry, we'll miss it!"

They turned on themselves, like a _____________ wheel, all tumbling spokes. Margot stood alone.” (Page 472)

1. “That was Margot's poem, read in a quiet voice in the still classroom while the rain was falling outside.

"Aw, you didn't write that!" ____________ one of the boys.

"I did," said Margot. "I did." (Page 472)

1. “Sometimes, at night, she heard them stir, in _______________, and she knew they were dreaming and remembering gold or a yellow crayon or a coin large enough to buy the world with. She knew they thought they remembered a warmness, like a blushing in the face, in the body, in the arms and legs and trembling hands.” (Page 472)

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CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RI.7.4

1. “The silence was so ______________ and unbelievable that you felt your ears had been stuffed or you had lost your hearing altogether. The children put their hands to their ears. They stood apart. The door slid back and the smell of the silent, waiting world came into them.” (Page 474)

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CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

1. “They glanced out at the world that was raining now and raining and raining steadily. They could not meet each other's glances. Their faces were _____________ and pale. They looked at their hands and feet, their faces down.” (Page 476)

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CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

1. “Look, look; see for yourself!”

The children pressed to each other like so many roses, so many weeds, _____________, peering out for a look at the hidden sun.

It rained.” (Page 471)

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CCSS.L.1.5A

CCSS.L.1.5B

CCSS.L.K.5A