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If you were the teacher, what grade would these reading responses earn?

Eggs by Jerry Spinelli

I really like the character Primrose because she is an independent person. She seems to be the kind of person who takes control of a situation when she’s not happy with it. For example, because Primrose doesn’t really get along with her mother, she moves into a van sitting in front of her house and basically starts living on her own. She didn’t get frustrated or upset when she realized that someone had smashed eggs into the windows of her van. Instead, she just started cleaning them up because she knew the dried-up egg smears wouldn’t go away on their own. I admire Primrose because she just takes care of business.

Eggs by Jerry Spinelli

I predict that David and his grandmother are going to be best friends who do everything together by the end of the book because right now they don’t get along. David treats his grandma really badly.

Eggs by Jerry Spinelli

I wonder why the title of this book is Eggs. I have heard the word mentioned several times so far in the book, but each time the word “egg” comes up, it hasn’t had much to do with the characters or their problems. I know that titles often relate to a book’s theme or most important idea. In this book, the two times I read about eggs had to do with an Easter Egg Hunt and eggs being tossed onto someone’s car, so I can’t imagine that a simple little egg would be the most important item in the book. I hope I get an answer by the time I finish reading.

Eggs by Jerry Spinelli David’s dad is gone a lot during the week because he works 200 miles away in Connecticut. I would feel really bad if that were my dad because we wouldn’t get to spend very much time together. I like to play catch with my dad.