Name___________________________________________ 

   Date_____________ Setting the Story The

setting of the story is where the action is taking place and is usually mentioned in the introduction
(exposition). Often, the setting will change throughout the story. Directions: In groups of 4‐5, take turns
reading a book. Answer the questions below. What is the setting in the beginning of the book?
______________________________________________________________ Draw a picture of the
setting Does the setting of the story change at all? If so, what is the new setting(s)?
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______________________________________________________________ What is the setting at the
end of the book? _____________________________________

must" (and any subsequent words) was ignored because we limit queries to 32 words.

Did you mean: Name Nurse Betty is giving shots. Fill in the blank below each story with the word that
describes how Nurse Betty thinks each patient is feeling.

3. Rhonda clung to her mother and whimpered. Rhonda’s mother tried to peel her away. “Rhonda! You
must cooperate with the nurse! Sit down and be still!” Rhonda squirmed against her mother. “No! I
don’t want to!” 1. Teri sat very still in the chair. Her heart was pounding. She hated shots, but she knew
it was something that she had to do. “Now this may pinch a little,” Nurse Betty said. “Are you ready?”
Teri nodded. She took a deep breath. She looked away from Nurse Betty so she wouldn't see the needle.
“All done,” Nurse Betty said. Teri let out her breath. She did it!

2. Jim trembled. Nurse Betty prepared the needle. The sight of it made Jim squeamish. “You’re
trembling!” Nurse Betty said. “I…I…I know,” Jim stuttered. He squeezed his eyes shut tightly. He felt like
he was going to be sick.

4. Penny sat down in the chair and smiled at the

indiferrent? nurse. She talked to her mother while
Brave?Afraid? Nurse Betty got the needle ready. “All
Babysh? done,” Nurse Betty said. Penny turned
around in surprise. “Really?” she asked.
“That’s it? I didn’t even feel it!

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your name________________________________________________

The New Babysitter Tina and her brother and sister had a new babysitter. Mrs. Green was nothing like
her old babysitter. Mrs. Green was old, and big, and grumpy. She didn’t like to play games. She didn’t
like to sing. She never baked cookies. “I don’t like Mrs. Green,” Tina told her mother. “I’m sorry,” her
mother said. “But Mrs. Green is a very good woman. She is very responsible. She has excellent
references. And she’s available any time I need her.” “But she’s no FUN,” Tina wailed. Her mother
shrugged her shoulders and went back to what she was doing. Tina decided that she would behave so
badly that Mrs. Green wouldn’t want to babysit her anymore. Tina spilled her juice on the sofa. She
refused to do her homework. When Mrs. Green said, “Tina, will you help me with your brother for a
moment?” Tina said, “I will not!” and went out into the yard, slamming the back door behind her. That
afternoon, Mrs. Green spoke to Tina’s mother for about fifteen minutes before she left. When Mrs.
Green was gone, Tina expected her mother to fuss at her. Instead, her mother just said, “Well, time to
make dinner!” and went into the kitchen. Tina stared after her. Didn’t Mrs. Green quit? Didn’t she at
least tell Tina’s mother all the awful things that Tina had done? The next day, Tina spilled her juice on
Mrs. Green. She refused to help with the baby. And she hid Mrs. Green’s glasses so she wasn’t able to
read her magazine. Again, though, by evening nothing had changed.

On the third day, Tina didn’t even bother being mean to Mrs. Green. She moped around, wishing she
had someone to play games with, or someone to bake her cookies. “Well. I see someone has decided to
accept me after all,” Mrs. Green said to Tina. Tina stared at her, wide-eyed. “You knew?” Tina asked.
“I’ve been around children all my life,” Mrs. Green said. “And do you know what I see when I look at
you?” Tina shook her head and blushed. Based on how she had been acting, she could only imagine
what Mrs. Green must see when she looked at her! But what Mrs. Green said next surprised her. “I see a
girl who has grown up quite a bit, but who doesn’t realize it because no one around her is treating her
like it. I see a girl who is old enough to initiate games with her brothers, instead of expecting the
babysitter to entertain her. I see a girl who would like to learn how to bake her own cookies. I could
teach you,” Mrs. Green said. “If you would like me to.” “Yes please!” Tina said. She and Mrs. Green
smiled at each other. Suddenly Tina felt very happy. Except for one thing. “Mrs. Green,” Tina said
quietly. “I’m sorry I did all those mean things to you, to try and make you go away.” “Thank you, Tina,”
Mrs. Green said. “Now, what’s your favorite kind of cookie?”

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Name                                                   Literary Non-fiction CCSS.RI.8.10 |©

Regulation and the Stock Market Literary nonfiction is a type of prose that uses literary
techniques, figures of speech and other compositional techniques that you usually find in fiction or
poetry to report on persons, places, and events in the real world. Also known as creative nonfiction, this
category of writing is broad enough to encompass travel writing, nature writing, science writing, sports
writing, philosophy, biography, autobiography, memoir and public speeches.

The stock market was once a bit like the wild, wild west−lots and lots of cowboys and no
sheriffs. Investors, in true cowboy fashion, gave little thought to the risk involved in investing their hard‐
earned money based on marginal or unreliable information, and the companies they were investing in
put little effort into ensuring they offered an honest transaction. But when the stock market crashed in
October 1929, confidence plummeted. Both individual investors and banks lost huge amounts of money,
ushering in the Great Depression. In order for the country to recover, some law and order was required,
so Congress passed the Securities Act of 1933 which, along with the Securities Exchange Act of 1934,
basically set up the SEC to be the sheriff.

This new sheriff had two laws: that companies offering securities for public investment had to tell the
truth about their businesses, the securities they were selling, and the risks involved in investing; and
that the people who sell and trade securities – brokers, dealers, and exchanges – had to treat investors
fairly and honestly, putting investors’ interests first. No longer could anyone carry concealed weapons.
And deputies began to roam the streets.

1. Who are the cowboys____________________________________________

2. ? 2. Who is the sheriff?__________________________________________
3. 3. Explain what this extended metaphor is intended to convey.

name__________________________________________________
 Harnessing the Power of Nature Literary nonfiction is a type of prose that uses literary techniques,
figures of speech and other compositional techniques that you usually find in fiction or poetry to
report on persons, places, and events in the real world. Also known as creative nonfiction, this
category of writing is broad enough to encompass travel writing, nature writing, science writing,
sports writing, history biography, autobiography, memoir and public speeches. DIRECTIONS: Read
the passage. Then answer the questions.  
Since antibiotics were discovered in 1928, the medical community has been using them as the
treatment of choice against bacterial infections. They have become so ubiquitous, in fact, that
modern medicine now faces the possibility of them becoming ineffective as bacteria evolves into
antibiotic‐resistant strains. This might suggest that the use of living creatures to fight human
disease is a bad idea; nature does sometimes tend to have a will of its own despite human desires
and best intentions. But perhaps the key is not to abandon nature in our pursuit of scientific
control, but to work in cooperation with it. To this end, scientists are attempting to solve the
antibiotic‐resistance problem by looking to the past. Before antibiotics, doctors treated bacterial
infections with specialized viruses called phages, which kill disease‐causing bacteria.
Doctors stopped using phages largely because of the scientific limitations of the time period.
Like imaginary creatures in a modern video game, any one particular phage attacks only one
particular strain of bacteria; the challenge, and the thrill of battle, is to match up the right
opponents. With hundreds of different strains of individual viruses, it was impossible, in the early
20th century, to determine which strain of phage to use quickly enough to help the patient.
Another limitation was that phage has to be grown in cultures of the same harmful bacteria it is
intended to fight, meaning that the phage needs to be separated from the bacteria before being
introduced into the patient. Early techniques for doing this filtered out the bacteria, but not toxins
left behind in the culture by the bacteria, which could kill the patient. Today, though, advanced
techniques have been developed that allow scientists to identify and purify phage more efficiently,
reducing the problems and risks that caused treatment with phage to fall out of favor. And a study
in Name                                              
suggested that phage were actually more effective than several different antibiotics in fighting
disease in animals.
1. Why are scientists looking for an alternative to antibiotics?  
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2.Why was the use of phage discontinued?
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3. What has changed that allows for phage to be reconsidered as a viable alternative to
antibiotics?  
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4. Identify some elements in this article that qualify it as “literary” nonfiction.  
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The World Traveller

After my “year off to travel,” which had turned into three years, I had imagined that
with my entrance into the 9 to 5 corporate work force that my travel days were over. Because I
loathed the idea of sitting behind the wheel of a barely moving car in traffic for hours every day, I
opted to take public transportation, and that single decision made enough of a difference in my
quality of life, and appealed to my sense of novelty and adventure just enough that I was able to
remain gainfully employed in corporate America for some twenty years. I had always had a sense of
adventure, and from youth onward my sensibilities had always been focused out, beyond, and up. I
had learned to keep my eyes on the
orizon, to always look towards where I was heading, rather than at where I currently was. But
following this radical lifestyle change, my daily commute taught me to look closely at what lay right
in front of me. I may have no longer been able to go to the world, but by stepping onto the subway
every morning, I soon found that the world was regularly delivered up to me

A typical experience would be me standing on the train, gripping a support bar just
above the hand of a man wearing a kaftan, and during the two minutes in which we occupied the
same space, I would strike up a conversation. Where was he from? How had he come to be here?
Where was he going? I found that people were generally happy to be noticed, flattered to be
approached in conversation, and appreciative that I appreciated something about them in a country
that usually overlooked or ignored them. People told me about their home countries, their parents,
and their children. They shared their food with me. They let me listen through their headphones at
their music. I began to make notes about who I had met and where they were from, and there
came a day, after about ten years of these daily globetrots that I realized that I had met an
individual from every country then recorded to be in existence on the globe. In a decade of
traveling essentially in circles underneath of a single American city, I had managed to make a virtual
tour of the world.

1. What does the narrator say is her defining quality? _________________________

2. How did she employ this quality to “make a virtual tour of the world?”
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