“Night Calls” Short Answer Questions pp. 567-570
1. Read to the bottom of 568. What two important events does the flashback reveal?
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2. Read to the top of the second column on page 569. What details seem to reveal the narrator’s attitude toward the heron?
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3. Read to the bottom of the first column on page 570. Which images and figures of speech help you hear and see the setting and the heron? Write one metaphor and one simile from this section of the story.
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Story Vocabulary for “Night Calls”
Use the story vocabulary on page 564 to complete the sentences.
1. The town was a jumble of houses, with ______homes of the wealthy ______run down homes of the poor.
2. To build their self-confidence, the teacher was constantly ______her students.
3. The Joshua tree is an ______plant species to California.
4. If a student does not study for a difficult exam, he or she will ______fail it.
Answer the questions in complete sentences, correctly using the underlined vocabulary words in your answers. The definitions of the words are on page 564.
1. What inevitably follows lightning? Think of another example of something that inevitably follows something else.
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2. If you are an avid reader, how do you feel about reading?
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Story Vocabulary (continued)
3. Name three things that are indigenous to California.
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4. Name two countries abutting the United States.
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Warm-Up Questions for 12/2/09
Before you start today’s reading, answer these three review questions.
1. How does the narrator’s life change just before her eighth birthday?
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2. What was Marlene’s special talent?
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3. Why is the red-crested heron sent to the ModderRiver sanctuary?
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Short Answer Questions (continued)
Continue reading the story from page 569, and answer the questions as you go along.
4. Read from the top of the second column of page 569 to the bottom of the first column on page 570. Which images and figures of speech help you hear and see the setting and the heron? Write one metaphor and one simile from this section of the story.
Metaphor: ______
Simile: ______
Images that help you hear and see: ______
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5. Read to the middle of the second column on page 570. Why do you think the father releases the heron and lies about what he did?
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6. Read the second column of page 571. What similes describe the father in this paragraph?
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Figures of Speech (metaphors and similes)
Mood (words or phrases that help create mood in the story)
Flashback (Explain the purpose that the flashback serves in the story.)