activity of text interpretation, aimed at fifth-grade students, about the creator of Snoopy. Let's know the story of Charles Monroe Schulz? So, read the text carefully! Then answer the various interpretative questions proposed!
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Charles Monroe Schulz was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) on November 26, 1922, but grew up in Saint Paul. He was the only child of Dena and Carl Schulz. Since birth, comics have played an important role in his career. At just two days old, an uncle nicknamed him Sparky after the horse Spark Plug, from the Barney Google strip. During adolescence, Charles and his father shared a ritual: every Sunday morning they read comics from the newspapers together. Charles always knew he wanted to be a cartoonist and was overjoyed when Robert Ripley published it in
Ripley's Believe it or Not his first drawings in 1937.Charles Schulz had to put his artistic ambitions aside while serving in World War II, although he has not stopped drawing sketches of military everyday life. After the end of the War, Schulz returned to St. Paul to try to fight for a career as a cartoonist. Between 1947 and 1949 he published the strip Li'l Folks in St. Paul Pioneer Press, his first regularly reproduced work. The name Charlie Brown was first used in this strip, but it was not the same character he became known for. Peanuts. Li'l Folks also had a dog that looked very similar to Snoopy.
After many "no's", Schulz finally realized his dream of having a national daily strip when Peanuts debuted in seven newspapers on October 2, 1950 and subsequently became a huge international hit. In 1965, Schulz was honored with the Reuben Award given by the National Society of Cartoonists.
When Schulz announced his retirement for health reasons in December 1999, Peanuts it was published in more than 2,600 newspapers around the world. The cartoonist died shortly after of a heart attack on Saturday February 12, 2000. In his honor, the Charles M. Schulz in August 2002, in Santa Rosa, California, with the mission of preserving and exposing the great artistic legacy of the cartoonist.
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Question 1 – The text above is:
( ) A tale.
( ) a review.
( ) a biography.
Question 2 – The excerpt “Charles Monroe Schulz was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA), on November 26, 1922, but grew up in Saint Paul.” It is:
( ) a narration.
( ) a description.
( ) an argument.
Question 3 – In the passage “Charles Schulz had to put aside his artistic ambitions while serving in World War II […]”, the underlined expression indicates:
( ) a wish.
( ) an obligation.
( ) a promise.
Question 4 – In the fragment “After the end of the War, Schulz returned to St. Paul to try to fight for his career as a cartoonist.”, the word “to” establishes the relationship between:
( ) direction.
( ) destiny.
( ) goal.
Question 5 – Report Charles Schulz's first "regularly reproduced" work:
Question 6 – In “The name Charlie Brown was first used in this strip, but it wasn't the same character he became known for Peanuts.”, the underlined part expresses:
( ) a contrast.
( ) a caveat.
( ) compensation.
Question 7 – In the segment “[…] Schulz finally realized his dream of having a national daily strip when Peanutsdebuted in seven newspapers […]”, the underlined verb has the same meaning as:
( ) “debuted”.
( ) “set up”.
( ) "He stood out".
Question 8 – According to the text, the Charles M. Schulz was inaugurated:
( ) in 1999.
( ) in 2000.
( ) in 2002.
By Denyse Lage Fonseca
Graduated in Letters and specialist in distance education.
