Tonight's homework with Eli included lots of reading and comprehension questions afterward. The story was about an artist that liked to paint unusual things and in the process of self discovery he painted a painting of him painting a painting of him painting a painting of him painting a painting... You get the picture. At some point the story says the painting seemed to come alive and start painting itself....
NOW, one of the questions was: What is this passage mostly about?
A) Why Matt likes to paint
B) The relationship between Matt and the author
C) How Matt learns he has magical powers
D) How Matt puts himself into his paintings (correct)
Eli originally stopped at C and thought that would be a cool answer...he then started telling me a story about some quest that a guy was on and he too discovered that he had magic powers. In my opinion, this is not a fair question...a young boy like Eli sees the word magic and the question is no longer relevant...he's dreaming of fighting dragons and throwing fireballs from his fingers.
After drawing him back in, we come to another question.
Matt's teacher tells him to paint his studio, ______ Matt would rather paint something unusual.
A) but
B) so
C) like
D) after
I told him to pick one, to which Eli started laughing and said, "Dad, you told me to pick the but! hahahahahaha...butt, butt,butt...my butt, your butt, Ollie's butt...pick a butt.
10 minutes later we returned to the homework.
I would like to thank whoever came up with these 4th grade homework questions (not the teacher)..great job for ADD Boys.
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