Reading

Key into Evaluation

Level One Set T2

Evaluation requires the skills or reorganisation and inference.  Answers
must come from the information in the story. Look for keywords. Consider
the writer’s intent.

The Flagman

The man who lives across the road from me has a flagpole in his front yard.  
He has lots of different flags, I always look to see which one is flying.

He has one with a bright yellow sun on it and he puts it up on hot summer
days.  He put it up on a dark day in the middle of winter a couple of years ago.
It didn’t make me feel any different and he hasn’t done it again.  Some of his
flags advertise things, some have pictures like the one with the sun, and
some are just designs. He loves them all.

He’s not a young man, and he tripped one day, stumbled forward and fell
against the wall of his house.  The next thing I knew, he had his arm in plaster
and in a sling. The day after that I was surprised to see that his flag was not
at the top of the flagpole.  Flying a flag low means someone has died. I
asked him who it was. It was his turn to be surprised - he didn’t know
what I was talking about.

I pointed up at the flag.  He seemed quite upset. He undid the rope and
awkwardly tugged on it, to raise the flag higher.  I took a step forward and
tugged it with him. It went to the top and he fastened the rope firmly at the
bottom of the pole.

a.  Who is the first up in the morning, the man across the road or the writer?  
Why do you say that?

The first person up in the morning is man across the road because the writer
say “I always look to see which one is flying” that means man across the
road is already put the flag before the writer looks.

b.  Why do you think he flew the flag with the sun on it in the middle of winter?

He flew the flag with the sun on it in the middle of winter because he wanted
to make people feel better on a dark day.

c.  Had someone died?  Why do you say that?

Someone didn't die because he didn't know what it meant and he was
surprised.

d.  Why did the writer help the man raise the flag higher?

The writer help the man raise the flag higher because he couldn’t get the flag
to the top with his arm in the praster.

Reaction question:

Do you think it was a good thing for the neighbour to fly flags?  Why do you
say that?

I think it was a good thing for the neighbour to fly flags because it represent

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This week for reading we read the poem called The Flag man. Then I wrote the answer using the question and words from the poem.