Scholastic News, February 16, 2009

Use your Scholastic News to answer the following questions. (Use the Better Answers format and don't forget to put your student number at the end.)

1. What character traits best describe Abraham Lincoln?

2. Based on the information in the story, what were Lincoln's greatest achievements?

3. Why do you think Lincoln did not want to allow the South to secede from the Union?

4. What effect, if any, do you think Lincoln's actions had on the election of President Obama 200 years after Lincoln's birth?

Gist Answer Practice 2

1. Why were the houses of Pig 1 and Pig 2 so weak?

2. Why was the Bears' house a mess when they returned home after their walk?

Gist Answer Practice

1. How did the wolf fool Little Red Riding Hood?

2. What was the first thing that made Little Red Riding Hood suspicious of "grandmother"?

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