Oh You don't pick your family like you pick a shirt or a pair of shoes. And you can't give them back like a mistake pair of
pants that you were never really sure of but bought anyway only to return it to the store later. That best describes my family. I
always tried my best to keep the rest of the students from seeing them. One day I forgot my lunch, and my grandmother Nana
walked three blocks to my school to hand it to me. When they called me to the office, there she was in her robe with bright pink
curlers dangling from her hair like antennas. Justine Fox, the most popular girl in school walked in and saw my grandmother. I
wanted to burst like a too ripe tomato from the embarrassment.
Common Core Standard RL.4 Vocabulary
Common Core Standard RL.2 Summarize
1. The narrator opens the text with the first sentence in 2. Write a summary of what you have just read.
order to emphasize-
a. how confused she is about her grandmother
to that she accepts her family the way they are
C. How she feels about her family

Select the correct text in the passage. which part of this excerpt from homer's odyssey uses an epic simile? the king himself the vases ranged with care; then bade his followers to the feast prepare. a victim ox beneath the sacred hand of great alcinous falls, and stains the sand. to jove the eternal (power above all powers! who wings the winds, and darkens heaven with showers) the flames ascend: till evening they prolong the rites, more sacred made by heavenly song; for in the midst, with public honours graced, thy lyre divine, demodocus! was placed. all, but ulysses, heard with fix'd delight; he sate, and eyed the sun, and wish’d the night; slow seem’d the sun to move, the hours to roll, his native home deep-imaged in his soul. as the tired ploughman, spent with stubborn toil, whose oxen long have torn the furrow'd soil, sees with delight the sun's declining ray, when home with feeble knees he bends his way to late repast (the day's hard labour done); so to ulysses welcome set the sun; then instant to alcinous and the rest (the scherian states) he turn’d, and thus address'd: "o thou, the first in merit and command! and you the peers and princes of the land! may every joy be yours! nor this the least, when due libation shall have crown'd the feast,