Question:
Read the text and answer the questions.
Mrs. Thompson stood in front of her 5th grade class on the first day of school. She found a boy sleeping in his seat. He was Teddy. Also Thompson noticed the boy didn't play well with the other children. It got to the point "F" at the top of his papers. Mrs. Thompson reviewed each child's past records. However, when she reviewed Teddy's file , she was in a surprise. Teddy's first grade teacher wrote, "Teddy is a bright child. He does his work neatly and has good manners..." His second grade teacher wrote, "Teddy is an excellent student, but he is troubled because his mother has an illness and life at home is difficult." His third grade teacher wrote, "His mother's death had been hard on him. He tries his best, but his father doesn't show much interest in his study..." Teddy's fourth grade teacher wrote, "Teddy is _ and doesn't talk with other's. Also he doesn't show much interest in school. He doesn't have many friends and he sometimes sleeps in class." By now, Mrs. Thompson realized the problem. She felt even worse when her students brought her Christmas presents wrapped in beautiful and bright paper, except for Teddy's. He sent a rhinestone bracelet with some stones missing. But Mrs. Thompson told him with a smile, "I like it very much." After school Teddy said, "Mrs. Thompson, today you smell just like my Mother used to be." Mrs. Thompson paid particular attention to Teddy. The more she encouraged him, the faster he responded. By the end of the year, Teddy had become one of the smartest children in the class. Teddy became one of her "teacher's pets." ,.
1. What grade did Mrs. Thompson teach?
2. Which student is she having problems with?
3. What does he do in class?
4. Does he get good grades?
5. Does he interact with the other kids?
6. Did all of his previous teachers have the same concerns?
7. Did his first grade instructor have problems?
8. How about second?
9. When did his troubles start?
10. Do you know why he was having trouble?
11. What did his third grade teacher say?
12. Did his father help him?
13. How did Mrs. Thompson find all of this out?
14. Did she try to help him after that?
15. What did she do?
16. Did it help?
17. How?
18. Did he give her any gifts?
19. what did he give her?
20. When did he give her the gift?
21. Would you consider him a "teacher's pet?"

Numbered answers:
1. 5th
2. Teddy
3. he sleeps
4. no
5. no
6. no
7. no
8. no
9. in second grade
10. His mother was ill.
11. That his mother's death was hard and his dad didn't pay attention to him
12. no
13. She reviewed Teddy's file.
14. yes
15. She paid particular attention to him.
16. yes
17. He became one of the smartest children in the class.
18. yes
19. a rhinestone with some stones missing
20. at Christmas time
21. yes

Question:
Read the text and answer the questions.
CHAPTER 15

Give unto me, made lowly wise, The spirit of self-sacrifice.

When Arthur went with his regiment to Windsor, the ladies intended to spend their evenings at home, a rule which had many exceptions, although Violet was so liable to suffer from late hours and crowded rooms, that Lady Elizabeth begged her to abstain from parties, and offered more than once to take charge of Theodora; but the reply always was that they went out very little, and that this once it would not hurt her.

The truth was that Theodora had expressed a decided aversion to going out with the Brandons. 'Lady Elizabeth sits down in the most stupid part of the room,' she said, 'and Emma stands by her side with the air of a martyr. They look like a pair of respectable country cousins set down all astray, wishing for a safe corner to run into, and wondering at the great and wicked world. And they go away inhumanly early, whereas if I do have the trouble of dressing, it shall not be for nothing. I ingeniously eluded all going out with them last year, and a great mercy it was to them.'

So going to a royal ball was all Theodora vouchsafed to do under Lady Elizabeth's protection; and as her objections could not be disclosed, Violet was obliged to leave it to be supposed that it was for her own gratification that she always accompanied her; although not only was the exertion and the subsequent fatigue a severe tax on her strength, but she was often uneasy and distressed by Theodora's conduct. Her habits in company had not been materially changed by her engagement; she was still bent on being the first object, and Violet sometimes felt that her manner was hardly fair upon those who were ignorant of her circumstances. For Theodora's own sake, it was unpleasant to see her in conversation with Mr. Gardner; and not only on her account, but on that of Lord St. Erme, was her uncertain treatment of him a vexation to Violet.
1. How did the ladies intend to pass their evenings?
2. Was this rule strictly enforced?
3. Did Theodora enjoy socializing with the Brandons?
4. Why?
5. Did they stay out late?
6. Who suffered from staying out late?
7. Who sought to protect her from said suffering?
8. Did anything else distress Violet?
9. Had Theodora's habits changed?
10. How so?
Numbered answers:
1. at home
2. a rule which had many exceptions
3. No
4. She felt annoyed
5. No
6. Violet
7. Lady Elizabeth
8. crowded rooms
9. No
10. she was still bent on being the first object