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Answer: Incorrect. The author refers to Mama being sad but there is not sufficient detail for the reader to answer this question. Additionally, this information does not have significance in relation to the core meaning of the text, which relates to the narrator's feelings -- not Mama's feelings or behaviors. Try again. Correct. This question requires students to support their understanding with evidence from the text (CCSS. RL.6.1). By directing the students to focus on figurative language (CCSS. RL.6.4), the students are expected to show their understanding of the beautiful words and phrases the author uses to reveal the narrator's feelings about turning eleven. The similes at the beginning of the story are particularly compelling such as "like an onion," or "like my little wooden dolls that fit inside the other." These similes show how the narrator feels all the years before eleven in layers that are present inside her at all times. Incorrect. This question is off-track and not aligned with a backwards-design approach. The core meaning in the text does not relate to what the narrator expects but rather to the feelings that the narrator has with regard to being eleven. Additionally, this question does not require a text-based analysis. Rather, it would prompt imaginative speculation from the reader. Try again. Incorrect. This question is measuring low-level thinking and would prompt a recall of information rather than analysis of the figurative language the author uses to illustrate how the narrator feels about being eleven. Try again.