Staying with Uncle Stephen (full story)
Test Taking Tips
This question requires you to determine:
who the most important characters are,
what the conflict is,
what the major events are,
how the conflict is resolved,
and how the main character changes and/or what the main character learns.
It will NOT have unimportant details or events (things you could cut from the story and still have the story), nor will it leave out major events.
Read the notes you took on your plot graphic organizer. These will help you determine the major events.
When analyzing the answer choices, remind yourself how many paragraphs the story has, then determine which paragraphs each choice covers. For example:
Brody has to stay with his Uncle Stephen, (paragraph 1) and he misses his friends. Brody talks to Marisa and Jeffrey and discovers that they are doing activities that he typically enjoys. (paragraphs 2-9) Later Brody goes hiking with Uncle Stephen, (paragraphs 11-15) and then he works on a poem for his homework assignment. (paragraph 16) When he finishes, Brody and Uncle Stephen go fishing. (paragraph 20)
This answer choice is incorrect, because it contains unimportant details about his phone conversations and does not include how the conflict is resolved or what Brody learns.