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Benjamin Banneker 2019-2020
By Paula Bruederle
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Question 1
1.
What do you know about clocks? How have they changed over time?
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Question 2
2.
Look at the title, picture, and caption. Write
two
questions that you think will be answered by reading this article.
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Question 3
3.
What information does the map and caption provide?
A the age of Benjamin Banneker
B how Benjamin Banneker grew up
C the success of Benjamin Banneker
D what Benjamin Banneker looked like
Question 4
4.
The captions are included in the article to
A give the reader more information about what is shown in the picture
B present the reader with a question
C help the reader understand new words
D to tell where Benjamin grew up
Question 5
5.
Which text feature could be added to help the reader organize the information while reading?
A glossary
B index
C headings
D labels
Question 6
6.
A student asks the following question:
Who taught Benjamin how to build the clock?
In which paragraph can this question be answered?
A paragraph 1
B paragraph 2
C paragraph 5
D paragraph 3
Question 7
7.
What question can be answered by reading
paragraph 4
?
A Why did Benjamin need to work on his father's farm?
B Where did Benjamin invent the clock?
C What skills did Benjamin have that were useful to Thomas Jefferson?
D Did Benjamin enjoy working on the farm?
Question 8
8.
What is another good title for this passage?
A Learning about Clocks
B What Makes a Good Neighbor
C How the Capital Was Built
D The Man Who Helped Plan the Capital
Question 9
9.
This passage is mostly about....
A Benjamin Banneker taught himself the things that made him a success.
B Benjamin Banneker discovered how to make a clock without reading books.
C Benjamin Banneker used his knowledge to help only himself.
D Benjamin Banneker wanted to learn and study more than he could at school.
Question 10
10.
What is the main idea of
paragraph 3
?
A Benjamin's neighbor thought he was a very special young man.
B At school, Benjamin read many books and he used his knowledge to make things better on the farm.
C As a young man, Benjamin was always trying to learn and make new things.
D Thomas Jefferson liked Benjamin, so he asked him to help plan the capital city.
Question 11
11.
A good heading for
paragraph 4
would be...
A Inventing a Clock
B Making a Difference for our Country
C Never Give Up
D Thomas Jefferson and George Washington
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Question 12
12.
Look at the notes above.
Which detail should be added to the notes above?
A When the hands marked the hour, the clock chimed.
B Benjamin helped plan the lay out of Washington, D.C.
C He had figured out how to make the clock by himself.
D Benjamin wanted more books to read.
Read this sentence from the article.
But even though he had to work
hard
with his hands, he would not give up and stop using his mind.
Question 13
13.
Which sentence uses the word
hard
, the same way it is used in the sentence above?
A The ball bounced back immediately when it hit the hard wall.
B My sister studied hard to get a good grade on the test.
C He thought the new text book was hard to understand.
D I game the man a hard look because I was curious.
Question 14
14.
When a neighbor saw the clock that Benjamin, buillt, he called Benjamin, "a
remarkable
young man." What does
remarkable
mean?
A amazing
B helpful
C talkative
D thoughtful
Read this sentence from Paragraph 4.
Thomas Jefferson thought of how the
brilliant
Benjamin Banneker could help.
Question 15
15.
What does
brilliant
mean in the sentence above?
A important
B young
C friendly
D gifted