Directions: The two passages are about cicadas. Read the first passage and answer questions 1 - 5. Then, read the second passage and answer questions 6 - 10. Questions 11 & 12 will be comparing or contrasting the two passages.
“The Summer’s Cicadas are About to Wake From Their 17 - Year Sleep”
Question 1
1.
Look at the graphic within the passage. At what stage do cicadas eat and drink?
Question 2
2.
Look at the graphic within the passage. What information can you learn from the graphic?
Question 3
3.
What is the purpose of the headings in the passage?
This is a two part question. Answer Part One before you answer Part Two.
Question 4
4.
Part One: What are the main ideas of “The Summer Cicadas are About to Wake From Their 17-Year Sleep”?
Question 5
5.
Part Two: How do the key details from the passage support your answer to Part One? Choose two answers.
Question 6
6.
How does the author of “The Summer Cicadas are About to Wake From Their 17-Year Sleep” support the idea that cicadas are good for the environment?
Excerpt from Cicada Summer by Andrea Beaty
Question 7
7.
Read the sentence from the excerpt from Cicada Summer.
In the front row, Judy Thomas is “wound up like a tiger ready to pounce” on the spelling word. (paragraph 8).
What does the figurative language in the sentence suggest?
This is a two-part question. Answer part one, then answer part two.
Question 8
8.
Part One: Reread paragraphs 9 and 18. What do you learn about the narrator?
Question 9
9.
Part Two: Which sentence supports the answer to part one?
Question 10
10.
Which sentence from the passage best supports the inference that Mrs. Kirk doesn’t like the cicadas?
Question 11
11.
How are Ricky and Bobby different from each other?
Question 12
12.
In paragraph 7, what does the word stifling mean?
Question 13
13.
Which statement best describes the difference in the point of view of “The Summer’s Cicadas are About to Wake From Their 17- Year Sleep” from the excerpt from "Cicada Summer”?