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Grade 10 Reading Worksheet: By Any Other Name

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  • 2 pages total

  • 3 practice exercises

  • 1 answer key page

  • 2 pages total

  • 3 practice exercises

  • 1 answer key page

“Memoir is the art of inventing the truth.”
— William Zinsser

This Grade 10 reading worksheet is based on the memoir By Any Other Name by Santha Rama Rau and focuses on high-level literary analysis of identity and cultural discrimination.

Content Overview

  • Activity 1: Comprehension: Identifying key ideas, including the narrator’s identity, forced name changes, and unfair treatment.

  • Activity 2: Theme & Author’s Purpose: Analyzing themes of identity, discrimination, and the meaning of the title.

  • Activity 3: Tone & Inference: Examining tone, point of view, and implied emotions.

A complete answer key is included with sample analytical and inference-based responses.

Additional Info:

  1. Text: By Any Other Name by Santha Rama Rau (Memoir)

  2. Difficulty Level: Medium to Difficult (CEFR B2 / CCSS Grade 10)

  3. Skill Focus: Analyzing theme, author’s purpose, tone, and personal narrative in memoir

  4. Standards / Strands:

  • CCSS: RL.9-10.1 – Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis; RL.9-10.2 – Determine a theme or central idea and analyze its development; RL.9-10.6 – Analyze a particular point of view or cultural experience reflected in a work of literature

  • CEFR: B2 – Understand extended texts, identify implicit meaning, attitude, and viewpoint

  • Cambridge English: Reading for detailed meaning, understanding writer’s attitude, and interpreting themes in personal and cultural texts

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