Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

It is almost summer time. Spring has been very long and very rainy. Winter was very warm and very long. In the winter the snows falls on the ground. It covers all the grass. It covers all the trees. It covers all the flowers.

In the winter, the chipmunk goes to sleep. The chipmunk works all summer long to gather enough food for the winter. The chipmunk gathers berries. The chipmunk gathers pine cones. The chipmunk drops the pine cones off our roof and rolls them to her favorite hiding place. Boom! Boom! Boom! The pine cones sound so loud when they drop off the roof!

The snow melts away in the spring. It is off the ground in our yard by the month of May. In June, there is still snow on the mountains. The snow on the mountains is still there until July.

In May the grass starts to grow. In June, the flowers bloom again. In July, we go swimming in the lake.

We get to play all summer. We do not have to go to school. We do not have to gather pine cones for food. We get to play outside and we get to have cook outs. We are not chipmunks. We are children.

Our mom makes us lemonade in the summer time. Our mom takes us to the beach. Our mom lets us have a lot of campfires. Our mom mows the lawn.

It is summer time and now we play for 90 days and the chipmunk works for 90 days.

In the winter we work and go to school and the chipmunk gets to sleep.

I am glad it is summer and I am glad that I am a human child and not a chipmunk. I am glad that we get to be awake through all the seasons.

I like spring. I like fall. I like winter. My favorite time of all is, for sure, summer!

1. What season is coming?
2. When does the lawn grow?
3. When does the animal sleep?
4. How many months are named?
5. When do we not go to class?
6. What are we?
7. And what do we do in winter?
8. What do we drink?
9. Who does things for us in summer?
10. Does she cut the grass?
11. What was spring?
12. And winter?
13. What shrouds everything?
14. What does the chipmunk do when it warms up?
15. What makes the loud sound?
16. Who drops them?
17. Where are they taking them?
18. What are they falling from?
19. What else do they collect?
20. What is great about being human?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. summer
2. May
3. in the winter
4. three
5. summer
6. humans
7. we work and go to school
8. lemonade
9. Our mom
10. yes
11. it was very long and very rainy.
12. Winter was very warm and very long
13. snow
14. in the spring
15. The pine cones
16. The chipmunk
17. her favorite hiding place
18. from off our roof
19. berries
20. we get to be awake through all the seasons.

Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

Tennessee (i/tnsi/) (Cherokee: , Tanasi) is a state located in the southeastern United States. Tennessee is the 36th largest and the 17th most populous of the 50 United States. Tennessee is bordered by Kentucky and Virginia to the north, North Carolina to the east, Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi to the south, and Arkansas and Missouri to the west. The Appalachian Mountains dominate the eastern part of the state, and the Mississippi River forms the state's western border. Tennessee's capital and second largest city is Nashville, which has a population of 601,222. Memphis is the state's largest city, with a population of 653,450.

The state of Tennessee is rooted in the Watauga Association, a 1772 frontier pact generally regarded as the first constitutional government west of the Appalachians. What is now Tennessee was initially part of North Carolina, and later part of the Southwest Territory. Tennessee was admitted to the Union as the 16th state on June 1, 1796. Tennessee was the last state to leave the Union and join the Confederacy at the outbreak of the U.S. Civil War in 1861. Occupied by Union forces from 1862, it was the first state to be readmitted to the Union at the end of the war.

1. What state is featured in the article?
2. When did Tennessee become a state?
3. What's the capital?
4. Is that the largest city?
5. What's the largest?
6. How many people live there?
7. How many people live in Nashville?
8. What state lies to the north of Tennessee?
9. Is there any other?
10. What large river makes up part of its border?
11. What mountain range is in the east?
12. What side was Tennessee for in the civil war?
13. When did the civil war happen?
14. What states are to the south of Tennessee?
15. From what language is the name derived?
16. In which part of the US is TN located?
17. In terms of size what is its ranking?
18. In terms of population what is its ranking?
19. What association does TN belong to?
20. When was that formed?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. Tennessee
2. June 1, 1796
3. Nashville
4. second largest
5. Memphis
6. 653,450.
7. 601,222
8. Virginia
9. Yes. Kentucky
10. Mississippi River
11. Appalachian
12. Confederacy
13. 1861
14. Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi
15. Cherokee
16. southeastern
17. 17th most populous
18. 17th
19. Watauga Association
20. 1772

Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

When Mr. Brown entered the classroom that Friday morning, he stopped at the blackboard. For there, on the blackboard, were words in huge red letters: BROWN IS STUPID! Mr. Brown thought for a moment. This could only have been the work of one of the four boys who had been kept in after school the day before. Mr. Brown turned the blackboard around so that the words could not be seen. Half an hour later,Mr. Brown wrote four names on the board: Gerald, Alex, Michael and Laurie. Then he said, "I want these four to stay in the classroom. The rest of you may go to the playground." The four boys came to the blackboard. "One of you has written a most impolite remark on the blackboard," he stared at them and _ , "which one of you did it?" The four boys gathered closer together, afraid of what was to come. "Was it you, Gerald?" Gerald shook his head. "No, it was not me, Sir," he gave the teacher a most sincere look in his wide eyes. "What do you have to say, Alex?" "I don't know anything about it, Sir," said Alex, and his ears turned red. Michael had a bright idea. "Perhaps someone broke in during the night," he said. "And when he saw the lovely red chalk lying there, he wrote something on the blackboard." "Is that the best you can think so, Michael?" asked the teacher. "I only thought ..." "And what about you, Laurie?" Laurie said in a rather low voice, "I didn't do it, Sir. I don't even know what it says on the blackboard." "You really don't know what's written there?" Mr. Brown asked. "And I don't think dear Gerald knows either." "No, Sir. No idea." "Michael, Alex, can either of you tell me what it says on the blackboard?" "No, Sir!" the two boys answered together. Brown walked forward and his fingers seized a schoolboy. He said in his kindest and softest voice to the other three boys, "Very well. I only punish the one who has been telling lies, and you three may go to the playground!"

1. How many young men are involved in the story?
2. what were they called?
3. were they well behaved?
4. Did they all get to go to recess?
5. Who was the instructor?
6. Did the story take place in church?
7. Where were they?
8. Was the instructor happy with the young men?
9. why?
10. what did they write?
11. did the instructor send the other students home?
12. Where did he send them?
13. was the writing in small letters?
14. what color was it?
15. did they use a marker to write on the board?
16. what did they use?

Numbered answers:

A:
1. four
2. Gerald, Alex, Michael and Laurie.
3. No
4. No
5. Mr. Brown
6. No
7. a classroom
8. No
9. they wrote something bad on the blackboard
10. BROWN IS STUPID!
11. No
12. to the playground
13. No
14. red
15. No
16. chalk