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Type: Multiple-Choice
Category: Compare and Contrast
Level: Grade 7
Standards: CCRA.R.9, RL.7.9
Tags: ELA-Literacy.RL.7.2
Author: mwoldum
Last Modified: 8 years ago

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Passage 1

The Emerging of Kasia

Kasia could not believe she was actually boarding a flight to America. Only yesterday, she was sitting on the floor in the attic with dust all over her hands and the white cotton dress. The dress was her grandmother's last gift to Kasia. As Kasia moved her fingers around the old, greasy, and dusty globe, she thought of her grandmother who had put it there.
"Darling, one day you shall see the world," Kasia's grandmother, Justina, had said, "It is your fate." She had stood in the same attic with Kasia years ago. "Be sure to go to America, and write to me in English," Justina would say dreamily. Now, America was Kasia's dream. She thought about her university in New York.
"How will people understand me there?" Kasia spoke her fear out loud. From that moment, Lublin and everything Polish was always dearest to Kasia's heart.

Passage 2

What was Ahead?

Unable to ignore his mother's routine plea, Deepak decided to seek an astrologer. He had little trouble finding one because there was a fortune-teller of some sort in every nook of the city. He decided to visit a man with the most curious-sounding name.
"Son, do not seek after what your heart desires the most," the man said as Deepak entered the room that smelled of incense and saffron. "It is not your destiny," he continued without asking Deepak any questions."You have great athletic abilities. Why don't you play cricket?" the astrologer asked, "Don't you want to be famous?"
Deepak's eyes were focused on the view outside the window. He had forgotten all about the days when he used to play cricket. Deepak did not care about the astrologer's prophecies. He only wanted to become a scientist.

Grade 7 Compare and Contrast CCSS: CCRA.R.9, RL.7.9

How does the idea of fate differ in each of the passages?
  1. Kasia's fate is leaving her home country forever; Deepak's fate is staying in his country.
  2. Kasia follows what she thinks is her fate; Deepak does not want to follow his foretold fate.
  3. Kasia does not believe in destiny and fate; Deepak believes in astrology and fortune-telling.
  4. Kasia learns about her fate in a prophecy; Deepak's fate is shown to him by his mom.