2. What is the author s point of view about the events in the Airborn? Use two details from the story to support your answer.

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1 Name: Grade 6 Lesson 12 Date: Use the article by Kenneth Oppel titled Airborn on pages in your student reader to answer the questions below. Directions Read the article. Then answer questions 1 and Read this sentence from page 351. Aflame, it seeped quickly downward, cut lines trailing, undulating like a giant jellyfish intent on the ocean s bottom. What does the phrase undulating like a giant jellyfish mean? Use two details from the story to support your response. 2. What is the author s point of view about the events in the Airborn? Use two details from the story to support your answer.

2 Use the article by Kenneth Oppel titled Airborn on pages in your student reader to answer the question below. Directions Read the article. Then answer questions At the beginning, middle, and end of the story, how does Cruse feel about being selected to ensure the balloon does not fall into the ocean or crash into the airship? What causes his feelings to change? Use details from the story to support your response. In your response be sure to explain how Cruse felt at the beginning, middle, and end of the story explain what causes his feelings to change use details from the text to support your response

3 EXEMPLARY RESPONSE 2 pt RL.6.4 Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the impact of a specific word choice on meaning and tone. W.6.9 Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research. Stem Used: Read this sentence from lines # and # of X. What does the phrase Y mean? Use two details from the article to support your response. 1. Read this sentence from page 351. Aflame, it seeped quickly downward, cut lines trailing, undulating like a giant jellyfish intent on the ocean s bottom. What does the phrase undulating like a giant jellyfish mean? Use two details from the story to support your response. The phrase undulating like a giant jellyfish refers to the hot air balloon as it falls out of the sky. Matt Cruse has just cut the cords that connect the balloon to the gondola, and now the balloon and its cut cords are falling into the ocean. The loose, trailing cords flap like the tentacles of a jellyfish. The word undulating describes the balloon canvas itself, which is billowing and waving because of the air currents. Apply 2-point rubric

4 EXEMPLARY RESPONSE 2 pt RL.6.6 Explain how an author develops the point of view of the narrator or speaker in a text. W.6.9 Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research. Stem Used: What is the author s point of view about X in [passage]? Use two details from the story/article to support your response. 2. What is the author s point of view about the events in the passage Airborn? Use two details from the story to support your answer. The author s point of view about the events in the story Aurora is being told to the readers using the perspective of first-person narration. The main character, Matt Cruse, is directly involved in the events of the story and is telling the tale first hand, therefore the events as well as the characters thoughts and actions are told from Matt Cruse s perspective. This is evident when Matt relates the crew s reaction after he is safely back on board the Aurora, Hands tousling my hair, clapping me on the back, voices saying, Well done, and me trying not to smile but smiling and laughing anyway because it felt so good to know I d brought the gondola in, saved the pilot, and impressed everyone. All these men who had known my father. They would have called him Mr. Cruse too. Apply 2-point rubric.

5 EXEMPLARY RESPONSE 4 pt RL.6.3 Describe how a particular story s or drama s plot unfolds in a series of episodes as well as how the characters respond or change as the plot moves toward a resolution. W.6.9 Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research. Stem Used: How does [character s] feel about X at the beginning, middle and end of story? What causes her/his feelings to change? Use details from the story to support your response. 3. At the beginning, middle, and end of the story, how does Cruse feel about being selected to ensure the balloon does not fall into the ocean or crash into the airship? What causes his feelings to change? Use details from the story to support your response. In your response be sure to explain how Cruse felt at the beginning, middle, and end of the story explain what causes his feelings to change use details from the text to support your response At the beginning of the story Airborn, Cruse felt brave. In the middle of the story, Cruse started to feel nervous. By the end of the story, Cruse felt very proud for safely returning to the airship, saving the pilot, and preventing the balloon from crashing. In the beginning of the story Airborn, Cruse was not afraid of the dangerous mission. The Captain said that of all the crew, he saw the least fear in Cruse. Cruse replied, Yes, sir. I have no fear of heights. He also knew that he was the lightest crew member, which meant he would be safer than the others on this mission. His bravery was rewarded by the Captain, who chose Cruse for the rescue mission. Cruse started to become nervous in the middle of the story. He was sorely worried that the balloon might catch on fire. He also worried that the metal burner frame might not hold. Cruse explained, I stared, breath stoppered in my throat, at those four bits of metal that tethered the burner frame to the gondola. They were never supposed to support the gondola s entire weight. In the end, Cruse was proud because he saved the hot air balloon pilot. Cruse said, It felt so good to know that I brought the gondola in, saved the pilot, and impressed everyone. These examples support how Cruse s feelings changed at different points in the story. Apply 4-point rubric