Name: __Ayleen Flores ______ Date: __11-7-22___ Period: _3rd pd__

WARM UP
FICTION, DAY 12
GRADE 10
“I get up because I’m supposed to, but if it were up to me, I would stay in my seat for the rest of time. I feel like there is
a bubble in my chest that expands more by the second, threatening to break me apart from the inside. I follow Susan to
the exit. The people I pass probably can’t tell us apart. We wear the same clothes, and we wear our blond hair the same
way. The only difference is that Susan might not feel like she’s going to throw up, and from what I can tell, her hands
aren’t shaking so hard she has to clutch the hem of her shirt to steady them.”
Reading: Use the following excerpt from the novel, Divergent, by Veronica Roth, to answer the following questions.

___c_1. In this paragraph, the description of Susan serves to -

A. emphasize the confidence of Susan.

B. reveal how the speaker and Susan are alike.
C. show the speaker’s lack of confidence.

___b___2. For the speaker, the bubble in sentence 2 symbolizes -

A. pride
B. anxiety
C. jealousy

(1) The great musician, Ralph Bendetto was successful as a young child in school. (2) Things changed quickly for him
when he went to high school. (3) He worked hard, but his grades dropped despite all of his efforts. (4) He also began to
suffer from headaches, stomach pain, and excessive sweating. (5) Music was the only thing that calmed him while he
was school. (6) Experts finally realized that the musical genius struggled with stress at school.

Editing: Use the passage above to answer the following question.

_____a___3. What change, if any, should be made in sentence 1?

A. Insert a comma after Bendetto

B. Insert a comma after successful
C. Insert a comma after young
D. Make no change

Revising: Use the same passage to answer the following question.

___d___4. The thesis statement is weak in this introductory paragraph. Which of the following could replace
sentence 6 and provide a more effective thesis statement for this paper?

A. Before long experts realized they had found a very common problem.
B. Before long experts realized that they had identified the problem as test anxiety.
C. At first it was a mystery, but experts figured out his problem.
D. In the end they figured out that he struggled with timed tests.

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