Quicksand

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Quicksandby Max Gunther
Quicksand by Max Gunther
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IA16 Demonstrate understanding of text
features (titles, headings, and other information
divisions, table of contents, captions) and
graphic features (Reading GLE 2.2.2)
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• Text-based details may include, but are not
  limited to
• Try to run
• Drop anything heavy you are carrying
• Lie flat on your back/lie still
• Shout for help
• Slowly roll yourself to firm ground
• Make all movements slow and deliberate
• Dont panic

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Two of the steps someone can take is to lay flat
on your back and yell for help. Another step is
to role very very slowly out of the quicksand to
safty. this may take an hour or so.
It provides more than two text-based details from
the text box that show steps someone can take to
get out of quicksand. (C) lay flat on your back
(D) yell for help and (E) role very very slowly
out of the quicksand.
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Make slow rolling movements and drop anything you
have on thats heavy.
(E) make slow rolling movements and (B) drop
anything you have on thats heavy.
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Dow not panic or you well sink slower. And if you
do you well sink faster.
(G) Dow not panic.
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Try to run
(A) Try to run.
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That the under ground water comes up and
forms quicksand.
The response includes no text-based details.
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• 20 What is the authors most likely purpose for
  writing the selection
• Quicksand?
• A. To persuade the reader to search for quicksand
• C. To entertain the reader with an adventure
  story about
• quicksand
• B. To inform the reader about the characteristics
  of
• quicksand

IA19 Analyze author's purpose (including
distinguishing between fact and opinion) and
evaluate effectiveness for different audiences
(Reading GLEs 2.4.2, 2.4.3, 2.4.4)
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The Quicksand That Ate My Shoes by Jennifer
Owings Dewey
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• 21 In The Quicksand That Ate My Shoes, which
  word best describes
• the narrator?
• A. Daring
• B. Bashful
• C. Humorous

LA06 Demonstrate understanding of literary
elements (genres story elements such as plot,
character, setting stylistic devices problem/res
olution) and graphic elements/illustrations (Readi
ng GLEs 2.2.2, 2.2.3, 2.3.3)
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• 22 In the story The Quicksand That Ate My
  Shoes, what does the
• narrator do after Martha gives her the stick?
• A. She tosses the stick into the hole.
• B. She leans on the stick to free herself.
• C. She watches the stick sink out of sight.

LC05 Order steps, sequence, and/or events from
the reading (Reading GLE 2.2.1)
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• 23 How do the authors ideas about quicksand in
  the selection
• Quicksand compare to the narrators ideas about
  quicksand in the
• story The Quicksand That Ate My Shoes?
• A. Both think people should be careful around
  quicksand.
• B. Both think people should be playful around
  quicksand.
• C. Both think people should be frightened around
• quicksand.

LA07 Compare and contrast elements of
text (Reading GLEs 2.3.1, 2.4.5, 2.4.6)
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IA18 Make connections (cause and effect) within
a text (Reading GLE 2.3.1)
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• Text-based details may include, but are not
  limited to
• Quicksand
• A person will sink/but not out of sight.
• A person will float higher in quicksand than in
  water.
• A person might try to run to keep from getting
  stuck.
• A person might lie on his/her back to keep from
  sinking.
• A person might shout for help.
• A person might drop anything heavy.
• A person might roll/swim/move slowly to the edge.
• A person should not panic/stay calm.
• The Quicksand That Ate My Shoes
• A person can get stuck/sucking mud
• A person can lose their shoes.
• The more a person tries to get out, the more
  stuck he/she becomes.
• A person may need a friend to help them by
  getting a stick/yell Quicksand!

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If the person steps in Quicksand they might move
but your not sopossto if they move to quick they
will sink faster and maybe even die. it is
important to not move! In the story Quicksand it
says to lay down and call for help. In the story
Quick sand ate my shoes it says it is deadly and
to stake a stick in the ground and and lean on it
to get out.
It provides more than two text-based details from
each passage. (CC) if they move to quick they
will sink faster (D) lay down (E) call for help
and (EE) stake a stick in the ground and and lean
on it to get out.
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A person can sink. Someone can lose something
they like like the flip-flops. And How to escape
from quicksand. And if you know what to do you
woudnt get hurt.
(A) A person can sink and (BB) Someone can lose
something they like like the flip-flops.
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You might not get out without help and you might
Loose a shoe or two.
It provides text-based details from only one of
the passages. (DD) You might not get out without
help and (BB) you might Loose a shoe or two.
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If a person steps into quick sand they start to
sink that is what happins when you step into
quick sand.
(A) they start to sink.
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The person can get away but it is not that easy
it will take a couple hours or more.
The response includes no text-based details.