Question 1 A)What are explicit meanings?(1 point) Responses claims that are made during an analysis of a text claims that are made during an analysis of a text ideas or details that are stated directly in a text ideas or details that are stated directly in a text conclusions readers form from evidence and reasoning conclusions readers form from evidence and reasoning information in a text that support an idea or analysis information in a text that support an idea or analysis Question 2 A)What is textual evidence?(1 point) Responses conclusions readers form from evidence and reasoning conclusions readers form from evidence and reasoning claims that are made during an analysis of a text claims that are made during an analysis of a text details or clues in a story that foreshadow its ending details or clues in a story that foreshadow its ending information in a text that support an idea or analysis information in a text that support an idea or analysis Question 3 A)What is an inference?(1 point) Responses information in a text that supports an idea or analysis information in a text that supports an idea or analysis an analysis of ideas or details included in a text an analysis of ideas or details included in a text an idea or detail that is stated directly in a text an idea or detail that is stated directly in a text a conclusion formed from evidence and reasoning a conclusion formed from evidence and reasoning Question 4 A) Use the excerpt from “Big Water” to answer the question. Today I feel only dread. I’m sweating again—my cheeks are flushed. I thought I would feel relieved to be back in civilization, to be rescued from certain death, but instead, seeing the town and the men rushing about on the dock, the boats and sails and horse-drawn wagons, I’m struck again by what we have just endured. I want to find Daniel, see his face, know that he remembers too, but he’s tunneled down beneath the blankets like a mole. What detail from the text best supports the inference that Daniel is having feelings similar to the narrator’s? (1 point) Responses The narrator wants to share a moment with Daniel. The narrator wants to share a moment with Daniel. Daniel has tunneled down to hide under the blankets. Daniel has tunneled down to hide under the blankets. The narrator expected to feel relieved but does not. The narrator expected to feel relieved but does not. They have both recently escaped from certain death. They have both recently escaped from certain death. Question 5 Big Water by Andrea Curtis Henry and Eva fold the sails and get out oars. We are bumping up against the stone-filled cribs of a large, wide dock within minutes. I watch the men on the docks with their untamed beards and callused hands, their frayed wool pants and faded hats. They are young and old and move about like a kind of machine, few of them speaking but working together without need of words. Moving cargo, hauling wood, cleaning boats. Picking up, passing, carrying. I hear one call to another in French, someone respond in English. A thick-necked tabby cat sneaks down the dock, sniffing here and there. It rubs its long orange-and-white striped side along one burly man’s boot. The man reaches down and scratches the old cat behind its ear, and it leans in toward him. These men pay us little attention until we are banging up against the high dock. Their faces flicker with confusion, then disbelief as Daniel calls out, “We were on the Asia. The boat is sunk. We are survivors! Help us.” He holds up the pillowcase with S.S. Asia stenciled along the hem. Excerpt from Big Water by Andrea Curtis. Printed with permission by Orca Book Publishers

Answer 1

Question 1 A) What are explicit meanings?

Response: ideas or details that are stated directly in a text

Question 2 A) What is textual evidence?

Response: information in a text that supports an idea or analysis

Question 3 A) What is an inference?

Response: a conclusion formed from evidence and reasoning

Question 4 A) Use the excerpt from “Big Water” to answer the question. What detail from the text best supports the inference that Daniel is having feelings similar to the narrator’s?

Response: They have both recently escaped from certain death.

Question 5 (No question provided, but this part includes an excerpt from "Big Water" by Andrea Curtis.)

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