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Which of the following is an example of situational irony?
A character wears a shirt that says "I love dogs," but then screams and runs away when a corgi approaches.
A ninth-grade English class is reading "The Fisherman And The Draug," a short story included in Weird Tales from Northern Seas by Jonas Lie (1893). The following paragraphs are an excerpt from this story. One day, as he was walking along with a Kvejtepig in his hand, and thinking the matter over, he unexpectedly came upon a monstrous seal, which lay sunning itself right behind a rock on the strand, and was as much surprised to see the man as the man was to see the seal. But Elias was not slack; from the top of the rock on which he stood, he hurled the long heavy Kvejtepig right into the monster's back, just below the neck. The seal immediately rose up on its tail right into the air as high as a boat's mast, and looked so evilly and viciously at him with its bloodshot eyes, at the same time showing its grinning teeth, that Elias thought he should have died on the spot for sheer fright. Then it plunged into the sea, and lashed the water into bloody foam behind it. Elias didn't stop to see more, but that same evening there drifted into the boat place on Kvalcreek, on which his house stood, a Kvejtepole, with the hooked iron head snapped off. Elias thought no more about it, but in the course of the autumn he bought his Sexæring, for which he had been building a little boat-shed the whole summer. Which sentence from the passage best demonstrates the author's use of foreshadowing?
"The seal immediately rose up on its tail right into the air as high as a boat's mast,..."
An English teacher provides her students with the following excerpt from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens for a close-reading exercise. "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way - in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insist on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only." After reading this excerpt, the teacher leads the class in a discussion. Which of the following statements would best demonstrate student understanding of the quote?
"This paragraph captures the duplicity of human nature."
During this literary period, a focus on the writer or narrator's emotions and inner world and a distrust of reason, as well as a celebration of nature, beauty, and imagination. Which literary period is being described?
The Romantic Period
When teaching a lesson on including direct quotes in student writing, Mr. Keating reminds students to include a dialogue tag when incorporating direct quotes. Which of the following describes a dialogue tag?
a phrase, like he said or she said
A teacher would like to provide students with the opportunity to reflect on their own writing development and improvements over time. Which of the following assessment types would best achieve this goal?
compile a writing portfolio
A teacher wants to design a writing prompt that emphasizes the importance of using formal and well-written language. Which of the following prompts would best achieve this goal?
draft a résumé for a dream job
During an oral presentation unit, students are expected to create a slideshow that includes key details and supporting visual graphics to present during their speeches. Before students begin creating slides, the teacher should review which component of incorporating technology into oral presentations?
How to use standard, visually appealing fonts and color choices.
According to the TEKS benchmarks for secondary English language arts, by the end of ninth grade, a student should be able to:
analyze the structure and elements of dramatic works.
Which of the following groups of words and phrases can be considered hyponyms for the word "subject"?
math, science, history
A teacher is walking around the room while students work on a creative writing assignment. She pauses to read one student's essay and notices the following sentence. The week mother fauned over her new dumpling of a baby; in the corner the older children sat and played uneffected by the new addition. Based on this sample, the student would benefit most from a:
review of homophone usage.
Before school, a teacher sees a student sitting in the cafeteria reading a novel. The teacher walks over and has a conversation with the student about the book, discussing the plot and what the student enjoys about the novel. This type of conversation best demonstrates:
the value of literacy and reading outside of academic purposes.
An eighth-grade class is reading "Wuthering Heights" by Emily Brontë. During class, the teacher pulls out the following passage from the novel to focus on. In this passage, the protagonist is describing her thoughts on people who live in the countryside. "I perceive that people in these regions acquire over people in towns the value that a spider in a dungeon does over a spider in a cottage, to their various occupants; and yet the deepened attraction is not entirely owing to the situation of the looker-on. They do live more in earnest, more in themselves, and less in surface, change, and frivolous external things. I could fancy a love for life here almost possible; and I was a fixed unbeliever in any love of a year's standing. One state resembles setting a hungry man down to a single dish, on which he may concentrate his entire appetite and do it justice; the other, introducing him to a table laid out by French cooks: he can perhaps extract as much enjoyment from the whole; but each part is a mere atom in his regard and remembrance..." Before the lesson, the teacher has planned the following learning objectives. 1. Students will be able to analyze a text for themes relative to life. 2. Students will be able to understand the purpose of different literary devices. Which statement best demonstrates a student meeting objective 1?
"A rural lifestyle encourages people to be more reflective and attentive to what they have."
While writing a research paper on the life of scientist Albert Einstein, a student uses many different sources that need to be cited. Which of the following would be an appropriate citation for an article found online?
"Albert Einstein." History, May 19, 2019, A&E Television Networks, 1, https://www.history.com/topics/inventions/albert-einstein. October 17, 2019.
A tenth-grade English teacher is teaching her class some effective speech delivery techniques. Which of the following should she include? Select all answers that apply.
Vary the cadence. Pause to emphasize words.
A ninth-grade class is reading a persuasive nonfiction text. The teacher wants to provide an accommodation to an English learner who is reading at the advanced-high English-language proficiency level, but may still struggle to comprehend the material. Which of the following will best support this student's comprehension?
providing a graphic organizer to complete while reading
During a lesson about mass media, a teacher has her students watch an online video advertisement and evaluate the creative techniques used to capture their attention. Which concept of media literacy is the teacher focusing on?
format
Which of the following can be expected of an English learner speaking at the intermediate level of English language proficiency?
participate in short conversations
Prior to beginning oral presentations of their independent research, which of the following would be most helpful in promoting student success?
review the rubric that will be used to assess their oral presentation (it is not "watch an example of an oral presentation that was recorded the previous year")
An eighth-grade English teacher has noticed that the English learners (ELs) in her class struggle to understand a lot of the vocabulary used in the text. Which two techniques from below would be the most effective ways for her to assist students in their long-term learning? (1) Teach students to use the contextual analysis to infer the meaning of an unfamiliar word by analyzing the text surrounding it. (2) Encourage students to read the text in their native language to gain a clear understanding. (3) Teach students the proper way to use a dictionary to find the meaning, pronunciation, and part of speech of words(4) Teach students how to use morphemic analysis to derive a word's meaning by analyzing its parts.
1 and 4
As an assessment of the class's understanding of persuasive techniques, an eleventh-grade teacher assigns pairs of students a persuasive technique or appeal and asks them to create a 30-second ad that uses their assigned technique. Which of the following ads best utilizes the desired user image technique?
A boy sits alone at the lunch table, starts using a certain body spray, and becomes Mr. Popular.
Which of the following examples is the best representation of situational irony?
A wife in a play plots revenge on her husband for forgetting their anniversary, only to learn that he has spent all morning planning an elaborate surprise.
A seventh-grade science teacher is working with a language arts teacher to integrate more writing into the curriculum. Which of the following assignments could be used to integrate science with a specific writing skill? Select all answers that apply.
After a biology lesson on plant growth and development, the teacher asks the students to prepare an explanation of photosynthesis for a group of elementary students. During a lab demonstration, the teacher asks students to write detailed observations in their own words and after the experiment, lets them draw inferences from the observed data.
A middle school teacher wants to do more to promote reading to her students. Which of the following strategies should she try? Select all answers that apply
Allow students the ability to occasionally choose what to read from a list of pre-selected options. Make books accessible to students by setting up a system where students can easily borrow and return books.
During a unit on poetry, twelfth-grade students read "She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways" (1800) by William Wordsworth. She dwelt among th' untrodden ways Beside the springs of Dove, A Maid whom there were none to praise And very few to love. A Violet by a mossy stone Half hidden from the Eye! —Fair, as a star when only one Is shining in the sky! She liv'd unknown, and few could know When Lucy ceas'd to be; But she is in her Grave, and, Oh! The difference to me! Which of the following pre-reading activities would best help students to comprehend this poem's theme?
Answer the following questions in your journal: "What is one thing you love that no one else does? Why do you like it? What makes it special to you?"
A teacher is preparing to start a unit on descriptive writing. Which of the following should the teacher emphasize that students include in a well-organized piece of descriptive writing?
Answer the questions who, what, where, when and how.
A middle school teacher wants to develop her students' oral communication skills. She separates the students into groups and provides each group with a jigsaw activity, in which they read a text and write down answers to questions. The students then change groups and share their information. Which of the following additions would best promote oral communication skills?
Asking the students to cover their papers when sharing their knowledge with the second group, to avoid reading aloud what they have written down.
"It's raining cats and dogs out there!" Mabel said, running inside from the backyard. The flower beds were filled with water, and the thunder forced the family's outside cats inside for comfort. "I hope you brought the lawn equipment inside," Daniel said," peering outside to study the downpour. In order to determine the meaning of the underlined phrase in the excerpt above, a student would benefit from vocabulary instruction in which of the following areas?
idioms (it is not "metaphors')
Which of the following is an applicable expectation when students are writing editorials?
include your individual opinions and supporting evidence
A teacher projects a series of simple sentences like the following example: The car drove down the street. Next, the teacher asks the students to rewrite this sentence, providing more details and context. The teacher models by creating the following example: As sirens blared a few blocks away, a red and black striped Chevy Impala rocketed down the street, almost taking out the neighbor's mailbox along the way. The primary purpose of this activity is to practice:
including adequate supporting details. (it is not "writing with varied sentence structure.")
The paragraph was written by a ninth-grade student. Sentences are numbered sequentially within the paragraph.(1) It was a beautiful winter day, fresh snow was falling and the sun was shining. (2) My father and I were getting ready to go sledding at the park across the street. (3) While getting dressed, the phone call came. (4) My father answered, but spent most of the call just listening in silence. (5) Covered head to toe in my snow gear and ready to go, I ran to get my father. (6) To my surprise, he was sitting on his bed crying. (7) It was the first time I had ever seen my father cry. (8) I froze in the doorway, not knowing what to do. Which of the following forms of sentence 1 contains the correct grammar and punctuation?
It was a beautiful winter day; fresh snow was falling, and the sun was shining.
A teacher is planning a lesson based on the poem "Wind" by Gwendolyn Bennet. First, she reads the poem aloud, then asks her students to read the poem twice more, first silently, then quietly aloud to themselves at their desks. After rereading the poem, students will work in pairs to annotate the poem in the following ways: paraphrase each stanza underline examples of figurative language mark the rhyme scheme identify the shift in the poem Finally, students will independently answer a multiple choice question requiring them to choose a theme present in the poem. Wind By Gwendolyn Bennett The wind was a care-free soul That broke the chains of earth, And strode for a moment across the land With the wild halloo of his mirth. He little cared that he ripped up trees, That houses fell at his hand, That his step broke calm on the breast of seas, That his feet stirred clouds of sand. But when he had had his little joke, Had shouted and laughed and sung, When the trees were scarred, their branches broke, And their foliage aching hung, He crept to his cave with a stealthy tread, With rain-filled eyes and low-bowed head. Which of the following student summaries best reflects the meaning of the poem?
Enjoying oneself at the expense of others might feel good at first but can lead to regret and sorrow.
An English teacher presents the following writing prompt to her students following their reading of To Kill a Mockingbird: Choose a character from the novel and analyze how his or her characteristics contribute to conflict in the novel. After writing their rough drafts, the class begins the revision and editing process. During peer editing, which of the following tasks would best help students evaluate the coherence and focus of their partner's essay?
Highlight the text evidence in each body paragraph and consider whether it supports an idea presented in the thesis.
We continued our march. We were coming closer and closer to the pit, from which an infernal heat was rising. Twenty more steps. If I was going to kill myself, this was the time. Our column had only some fifteen steps to go. I bit my lips so that my father would not hear my teeth chattering. Ten more steps. Eight. Seven. We were walking slowly, as one follows a hearse, our own funeral procession. Only four more steps. Three. There it was now, very close to us, the pit and its flames. I gathered all that remained of my strength in order to break rank and throw myself onto the barbed wire. Deep down, I was saying good-bye to my father, to the whole universe, and against my will, I found myself whispering the words: "Yisgadal, veyiskadash, shmey raba.... My heart was about to burst. There. I was face-to-face with the Angel of Death.... Which of the following discussion questions best supports objective 3?
How does the phrase "as one follows a hearse" add to the visual imagery of this passage?
A high-school English class is analyzing an excerpt from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë."Most true is it that "beauty is in the eye of the gazer." My master's colourless, olive face, square, massive brow, broad and jetty eyebrows, deep eyes, strong features, firm, grim mouth, — all energy, decision, will, — were not beautiful, according to rule; but they were more than beautiful to me; they were full of an interest, an influence that quite mastered me, — that took my feelings from my own power and fettered them in his. I had not intended to love him; the reader knows I had wrought hard to extricate from my soul the germs of love there detected; and now, at the first renewed view of him, they spontaneously arrived, green and strong! He made me love him without looking at me." Which of the following is the best summary of this excerpt from Jane Eyre?
Jane thinks her master's face is beautiful despite it not meeting traditional standards of beauty. As much as she tries not to, she loves him.
During the Renaissance more than 10,000 words entered the English lexicon. Where did most of these words originate from?
Latin and Greek languages
An eleventh-grade class is reading poems by various American poets, including "When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer" (1865) by Walt Whitman. During the poetry unit, the teacher has the following learning objectives. Students will be able to identify and evaluate poetic devices. Students will be able to identify the theme of the poem. Students will make personal connections to the theme of the poem. The teacher leads a discussion about "When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer." When I heard the learn'd astronomer, When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me, When I was shown the charts and diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them, When I sitting heard the astronomer where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room, How soon unaccountable I became tired and sick, Till rising and gliding out I wander'd off by myself, In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time, Look'd up in perfect silence at the stars. Which of the following student responses best demonstrates that a student has met objective 3?
Looking through charts, data, and numbers is challenging. I always struggle in science class to work through physics questions. I bet the narrator is having this trouble too."
The following informational paragraph was written by an eleventh-grade student. Use the paragraph to answer the questions that follow. (1) Applying for a first job is a frightening and confusing task. (2) You must search and search for the job that most interests you. (3) Sometimes you need to settle for whatever is available. (4) Go to the business and get a paper application or fill out the application online if you can. __________. (5) If they call you for an interview, that's when the nerves kick in. (6) Don't forget to ask friends or family to be a reference before you submit your application. (7) Go to the interview. (8) Wear your best clothes and act professional and mature. (9) Answer the questions the interviewer asks. (10) Then you wait to hear if you got the job! Which transition word or phrase should be inserted at the beginning of Sentence 4 to improve the paragraph's organization?
Once you've chosen a job,
Which of the following activities would be most effective for helping students understand the general purposes of mass media?
Play a series of advertisements and have students sort them into categories of social, political, or commercial. (it is not "Play a series of advertisements and have students sort them into categories of bandwagon, logical, or emotional appeal.")
An eleventh-grade class is reading poems by various American poets, including "When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer" (1865) by Walt Whitman. During the poetry unit, the teacher has the following learning objectives. Students will be able to identify and evaluate poetic devices. Students will be able to identify the theme of the poem. Students will make personal connections to the theme of the poem. The teacher leads a discussion about "When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer." When I heard the learn'd astronomer, When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me, When I was shown the charts and diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them, When I sitting heard the astronomer where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room, How soon unaccountable I became tired and sick, Till rising and gliding out I wander'd off by myself, In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time, Look'd up in perfect silence at the stars. Which of the following discussion questions best supports objective 2?
The "perfect silence" demonstrated by the narrator at the end of the poem is meant to contrast what earlier section?
A language arts teacher has a group of students who are reluctant readers struggling to comprehend a novel set in the 1800s. What strategies can the teacher use to help the students understand what they are reading? Select all answers that apply.
Provide time for students to research the setting of the novel. Pre-teach unfamiliar vocabulary for each chapter of the novel.
During a unit on poetry, twelfth-grade students read "She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways" (1800) by William Wordsworth. She dwelt among th' untrodden ways Beside the springs of Dove, A Maid whom there were none to praise And very few to love. A Violet by a mossy stone Half hidden from the Eye! —Fair, as a star when only one Is shining in the sky! She liv'd unknown, and few could know When Lucy ceas'd to be; But she is in her Grave, and, Oh! The difference to me! This poem best represents which period of British Literature?
Romantic Period
The dominance of feelings, love, and emotions over logic and reason is a characteristic of which literary movement or period of literature?
Romanticism
Read the following excerpt before answering the question that follows. A good WIFE was there OF beside BATH, But she was somedeal deaf, and that was scath. Of cloth-making she hadde such an haunt, She passed them of Ypres, and of Gaunt. In all the parish wife was there none, That to the off'ring before her should gon, And if there did, certain so wroth was she, That she was out of alle charity Her coverchiefs were full fine of ground I durste swear, they weighede ten pound That on the Sunday were upon her head. Her hosen weren of fine scarlet red, Full strait y-tied, and shoes full moist and new Bold was her face, and fair and red of hue. The passage above is an excerpt from which famous text?
The Canterbury Tales and Other Poems by Geoffrey Chaucer
An English teacher presents the following writing prompt to her students following their reading of To Kill a Mockingbird: Choose a character from the novel and analyze how his or her characteristics contribute to conflict in the novel. A student writes the following thesis statement for their essay: Scout is impetuous, naive, and caring, and these characteristics repeatedly put her in danger throughout the story. Which of the following sentences would best serve as a topic sentence for a body paragraph in this essay?
Scout's impetuous nature leads her into danger when she, Dill, and Jem intervene in Atticus's conflict at the jail.
The following narrative paragraph was written by a ninth-grade student. Use the paragraph to answer the questions that follow. (1) The rain dripped down from the tree branches and leaves, although Tasha didn't feel it. (2) She was too focused, too intent on escape. (3) Rounding a corner, a tree root caught her foot. (4) Tasha went sprawling to the forest floor and her hair became a tangle of dirt and leaves and mud. (5) "For the love of..." Tasha muttered angrily to herself. (6) She looked back, trying to assess the distance between herself and her pursuant. (7) "Maybe I lost it," she prayed though she knew in her heart she couldn't be so lucky. Which of the following sentences from the paragraph contains a misplaced modifier?
Sentence 3
The following narrative paragraph was written by a ninth-grade student. Use the paragraph to answer the questions that follow. (1) The rain dripped down from the tree branches and leaves, although Tasha didn't feel it. (2) She was too focused, too intent on escape. (3) Rounding a corner, a tree root caught her foot. (4) Tasha went sprawling to the forest floor and her hair became a tangle of dirt and leaves and mud. (5) "For the love of..." Tasha muttered angrily to herself. (6) She looked back, trying to assess the distance between herself and her pursuant. (7) "Maybe I lost it," she prayed though she knew in her heart she couldn't be so lucky. Which of the following changes to sentence 6 fixes the student's error in word use while still maintaining the original meaning?
She looked back, trying to assess the distance between herself and her pursuer.
The following paragraph is the beginning of the biographical entry "Newton" from The American Encyclopedia of History, Biography and Travel, comprising Ancient and Modern History: the Biography of Eminent Men of Europe and America, and the Lives of Distinguished Travelers by Thomas H. Prescott, A. M (1857). The year in which Galileo died, was that in which Isaac Newton was born. This eminent individual, who was destined to establish the truth of the discoveries of his illustrious predecessors, Copernicus and Galileo, was born on the 25th of December 1642, at Coltersworth, in Lincolnshire, where his father cultivated his own moderate paternal property. After receiving the rudiments of education, under the superintendence of his mother, he was sent, at the age of twelve, to the grammar school at Grantham, where the bias of his early genius was shown by a skill in mechanical contrivances, which excited no small admiration. Whilst other boys were at play, his leisure hours were employed in forming working models of mills and machinery; he constructed a water-clock from an old box, which had an index moved by a piece of wood sinking as the drops fell from the bottom, and a regular dial-plate to indicate the hours. The teacher would like students to practice writing single-paragraph summaries as a way to assess comprehension. Which of the following student summaries best summarizes this paragraph?
Sir Isaac Newton demonstrated strong ability in mechanics and complex skills at a very early age.
A seventh-grade class is presented with the following table. The teacher instructs students to add an affix from either column to the stem word, and then write a definition of the newly created word. The class then shares some of their creations with the group. Which of the follow-up activities below would best assess the class's ability to use word parts to analyze unknown terms?
Students define teacher-generated made-up words using the word parts.
Which of the following activities would best allow a teacher to assess a student's ability to effectively use Standard English conventions?
Students read a paragraph with no punctuation and add punctuation marks as needed.
Which of the following statements best describes the impact of technology and the Internet on the evolution of the English language?
Technology has led to the development of new words and phrases and semantic expansion of old words and phrases.
An eighth-grade class is divided into small groups. Each group receives a list of words similar to these: antigravity, antihero, antagonist, antibiotic, antisocial, antiseptic friendship, citizenship, kinship, companionship, hardship, township The teacher instructs the groups to define each word, label the part of speech, and break it down into its smallest parts. This activity is best designed to:
reinforce understanding of how affixes create meaning. (it is not "reinforce the use of word origins to define unknown words.")
A high-school English class is analyzing an excerpt from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë."Most true is it that "beauty is in the eye of the gazer." My master's colourless, olive face, square, massive brow, broad and jetty eyebrows, deep eyes, strong features, firm, grim mouth, — all energy, decision, will, — were not beautiful, according to rule; but they were more than beautiful to me; they were full of an interest, an influence that quite mastered me, — that took my feelings from my own power and fettered them in his. I had not intended to love him; the reader knows I had wrought hard to extricate from my soul the germs of love there detected; and now, at the first renewed view of him, they spontaneously arrived, green and strong! He made me love him without looking at me." Which of the following inferences is best supported by the excerpt?
The narrator has tried to compress her feelings in the past.
A ninth-grade class is reading the autobiography Night by Elie Wiesel. During the novel unit, the teacher has the following learning objectives. Students will be able to analyze how the author's use of language achieves specific purposes. Students will be able to draw conclusions and support them using text evidence. Students will be able to analyze description and imagery used in a text. During class, the teacher leads a discussion about the following passage from the novel. "Yisgadal veyiskadash, shmey raba.... May His name be celebrated and sanctified...." whispered my father. For the first time, I felt anger rising within me. Why should I sanctify His name? The Almighty, the eternal and terrible Master of the Universe, chose to be silent. What was there to thank Him for? We continued our march. We were coming closer and closer to the pit, from which an infernal heat was rising. Twenty more steps. If I was going to kill myself, this was the time. Our column had only some fifteen steps to go. I bit my lips so that my father would not hear my teeth chattering. Ten more steps. Eight. Seven. We were walking slowly, as one follows a hearse, our own funeral procession. Only four more steps. Three. There it was now, very close to us, the pit and its flames. I gathered all that remained of my strength in order to break rank and throw myself onto the barbed wire. Deep down, I was saying good-bye to my father, to the whole universe, and against my will, I found myself whispering the words: "Yisgadal, veyiskadash, shmey raba.... My heart was about to burst. There. I was face-to-face with the Angel of Death.... Which of the following student responses best demonstrates that a student has met objective 2?
The narrator is questioning his faith in this section. He is angry with his father for celebrating God. He doesn't understand why anyone would pray as those around him are walking to their deaths. He says God was "silent," so there's no reason why he should speak.
The following narrative paragraph was written by a ninth-grade student. Use the paragraph to answer the questions that follow. (1) The rain dripped down from the tree branches and leaves, although Tasha didn't feel it. (2) She was too focused, too intent on escape. (3) Rounding a corner, a tree root caught her foot. (4) Tasha went sprawling to the forest floor and her hair became a tangle of dirt and leaves and mud. (5) "For the love of..." Tasha muttered angrily to herself. (6) She looked back, trying to assess the distance between herself and her pursuant. (7) "Maybe I lost it," she prayed though she knew in her heart she couldn't be so lucky. Which of the following options corrects the comma error in sentence 1?
The rain dripped down from the tree branches and leaves although Tasha didn't feel it.
Which of the following activities would best help students learn to effectively participate in a group discussion?
The teacher assigns each student a job to perform during the discussion.
An English teacher presents the following writing prompt to her students following their reading of To Kill a Mockingbird: Choose a character from the novel and analyze how his or her characteristics contribute to conflict in the novel. What should the students primarily focus on when crafting their thesis statements?
The thesis statement should directly reflect the prompt.
A ninth-grade English class is reading "The Fisherman And The Draug," a short story included in Weird Tales from Northern Seas by Jonas Lie (1893). The following paragraphs are an excerpt from this story. One day, as he was walking along with a Kvejtepig in his hand, and thinking the matter over, he unexpectedly came upon a monstrous seal, which lay sunning itself right behind a rock on the strand, and was as much surprised to see the man as the man was to see the seal. But Elias was not slack; from the top of the rock on which he stood, he hurled the long heavy Kvejtepig right into the monster's back, just below the neck. The seal immediately rose up on its tail right into the air as high as a boat's mast, and looked so evilly and viciously at him with its bloodshot eyes, at the same time showing its grinning teeth, that Elias thought he should have died on the spot for sheer fright. Then it plunged into the sea, and lashed the water into bloody foam behind it. Elias didn't stop to see more, but that same evening there drifted into the boat place on Kvalcreek, on which his house stood, a Kvejtepole, with the hooked iron head snapped off. Elias thought no more about it, but in the course of the autumn he bought his Sexæring, for which he had been building a little boat-shed the whole summer. Which of the following graphic organizers would be most appropriate to use while reading this passage?
The timeline picture lol
A tenth-grade class will be writing an autobiographical essay as part of their end of the year writing assessment. Which of the following features would most likely be included in an autobiography? Select all answers that apply.
sensory details & descriptive language dialogue
A reading teacher has designed a lesson focused on skimming and scanning texts for significant features. What is the purpose of developing this skill?
This skill will help students locate information more quickly.
The following paragraph is the beginning of the biographical entry "Newton" from The American Encyclopedia of History, Biography and Travel, comprising Ancient and Modern History: the Biography of Eminent Men of Europe and America, and the Lives of Distinguished Travelers by Thomas H. Prescott, A. M (1857). The year in which Galileo died, was that in which Isaac Newton was born. This eminent individual, who was destined to establish the truth of the discoveries of his illustrious predecessors, Copernicus and Galileo, was born on the 25th of December 1642, at Coltersworth, in Lincolnshire, where his father cultivated his own moderate paternal property. After receiving the rudiments of education, under the superintendence of his mother, he was sent, at the age of twelve, to the grammar school at Grantham, where the bias of his early genius was shown by a skill in mechanical contrivances, which excited no small admiration. Whilst other boys were at play, his leisure hours were employed in forming working models of mills and machinery; he constructed a water-clock from an old box, which had an index moved by a piece of wood sinking as the drops fell from the bottom, and a regular dial-plate to indicate the hours. What is the primary purpose of the last sentence of the paragraph?
To provide an example of the ways in which Newton was gifted.
An eighth-grade English teacher is teaching her students how to identify different text structures. As part of the lesson, she asks her students to read the following excerpt about the famous philosophers, Plato and Aristotle. Although much of Aristotle's work was influenced by Plato, Aristotle was able to find many faults in Plato's theories and in time became a critic of his teacher. Their work targets many of the same aspects of philosophy, but their theories differ quite a bit. They both believed that thoughts were more powerful than senses. However, Plato believed the senses could not be used to determine reality, whereas Aristotle believed just the opposite, that the senses were needed to determine reality. So while Plato was busy imagining an invisible world, Aristotle looked to find truth in the world around him. Which graphic organizer would be helpful for students to use during the reading of this excerpt and the remainder of the text?
Venn diagram
A high-school English class is analyzing an excerpt from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë."Most true is it that "beauty is in the eye of the gazer." My master's colourless, olive face, square, massive brow, broad and jetty eyebrows, deep eyes, strong features, firm, grim mouth, — all energy, decision, will, — were not beautiful, according to rule; but they were more than beautiful to me; they were full of an interest, an influence that quite mastered me, — that took my feelings from my own power and fettered them in his. I had not intended to love him; the reader knows I had wrought hard to extricate from my soul the germs of love there detected; and now, at the first renewed view of him, they spontaneously arrived, green and strong! He made me love him without looking at me." During which of the following literary periods was this book written?
Victorian
We continued our march. We were coming closer and closer to the pit, from which an infernal heat was rising. Twenty more steps. If I was going to kill myself, this was the time. Our column had only some fifteen steps to go. I bit my lips so that my father would not hear my teeth chattering. Ten more steps. Eight. Seven. We were walking slowly, as one follows a hearse, our own funeral procession. Only four more steps. Three. There it was now, very close to us, the pit and its flames. I gathered all that remained of my strength in order to break rank and throw myself onto the barbed wire. Deep down, I was saying good-bye to my father, to the whole universe, and against my will, I found myself whispering the words: "Yisgadal, veyiskadash, shmey raba.... My heart was about to burst. There. I was face-to-face with the Angel of Death.... Which of the following questions would best guide students to meet learning objective 1?
What is the effect of the narrator counting down from twenty?
An eleventh-grade class is reading poems by various American poets, including "When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer" (1865) by Walt Whitman. During the poetry unit, the teacher has the following learning objectives. Students will be able to identify and evaluate poetic devices. Students will be able to identify the theme of the poem. Students will make personal connections to the theme of the poem. The teacher leads a discussion about "When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer." When I heard the learn'd astronomer, When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me, When I was shown the charts and diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them, When I sitting heard the astronomer where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room, How soon unaccountable I became tired and sick, Till rising and gliding out I wander'd off by myself, In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time, Look'd up in perfect silence at the stars. Which of the following questions would best guide students to meet learning objective 1?
What is the purpose of the repetition of the word(s) "when/when I" in lines 1-4?
An eighth-grade class is reading "Wuthering Heights" by Emily Brontë. During class, the teacher pulls out the following passage from the novel to focus on. In this passage, the protagonist is describing her thoughts on people who live in the countryside. "I perceive that people in these regions acquire over people in towns the value that a spider in a dungeon does over a spider in a cottage, to their various occupants; and yet the deepened attraction is not entirely owing to the situation of the looker-on. They do live more in earnest, more in themselves, and less in surface, change, and frivolous external things. I could fancy a love for life here almost possible; and I was a fixed unbeliever in any love of a year's standing. One state resembles setting a hungry man down to a single dish, on which he may concentrate his entire appetite and do it justice; the other, introducing him to a table laid out by French cooks: he can perhaps extract as much enjoyment from the whole; but each part is a mere atom in his regard and remembrance..." Before the lesson, the teacher has planned the following learning objectives. 1. Students will be able to analyze a text for themes relative to life. 2. Students will be able to understand the purpose of different literary devices. Which of the following discussion questions best supports objective 2?
Why does the author use these metaphors to compare life in a town to life in the countryside?
During a unit on poetry, twelfth-grade students read "She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways" (1800) by William Wordsworth. She dwelt among th' untrodden ways Beside the springs of Dove, A Maid whom there were none to praise And very few to love. A Violet by a mossy stone Half hidden from the Eye! —Fair, as a star when only one Is shining in the sky! She liv'd unknown, and few could know When Lucy ceas'd to be; But she is in her Grave, and, Oh! The difference to me! Which sentence most closely describes the author's use of a literary device in stanza two?
Wordsworth uses a metaphor to compare Lucy's beauty to that of a flower, both of which are hidden away and unappreciated.
A teacher instructs her students to write in a journal a few times a week. Sometimes she provides them with prompts, but most of the time their entries are reflections on their day or thoughts on topics of their choice. She occasionally asks the students to bring their journals to class so she can check whether they have been writing in it. She asks them to share one piece of writing. What is the purpose of this?
Writing in a relaxed format allows students to write freely.
A teacher has just finished teaching her class how to write a strong thesis statement. Now the students need to choose supporting details that are relevant to the topic and will provide sufficient support for their arguments. To scaffold this skill, which of the following could the teacher provide to the students?
a list of details for them to order from strongest to weakest
An eighth-grade English teacher is teaching her students how to identify different text structures. As part of the lesson, she asks her students to read the following excerpt about the famous philosophers, Plato and Aristotle. Although much of Aristotle's work was influenced by Plato, Aristotle was able to find many faults in Plato's theories and in time became a critic of his teacher. Their work targets many of the same aspects of philosophy, but their theories differ quite a bit. They both believed that thoughts were more powerful than senses. However, Plato believed the senses could not be used to determine reality, whereas Aristotle believed just the opposite, that the senses were needed to determine reality. So while Plato was busy imagining an invisible world, Aristotle looked to find truth in the world around him. Which of the following text structures is the teacher trying to help her students identify?
compare and contrast
A teacher is planning a lesson based on the poem "Wind" by Gwendolyn Bennet. First, she reads the poem aloud, then asks her students to read the poem twice more, first silently, then quietly aloud to themselves at their desks. After rereading the poem, students will work in pairs to annotate the poem in the following ways: paraphrase each stanza underline examples of figurative language mark the rhyme scheme identify the shift in the poem Finally, students will independently answer a multiple choice question requiring them to choose a theme present in the poem. Wind By Gwendolyn Bennett The wind was a care-free soul That broke the chains of earth, And strode for a moment across the land With the wild halloo of his mirth. He little cared that he ripped up trees, That houses fell at his hand, That his step broke calm on the breast of seas, That his feet stirred clouds of sand. But when he had had his little joke, Had shouted and laughed and sung, When the trees were scarred, their branches broke, And their foliage aching hung, He crept to his cave with a stealthy tread, With rain-filled eyes and low-bowed head. Which of the following best describes the poem "Wind" by Gwendolyn Bennet?
a lyric poem (it is not "a narrative poem")
At the end of the school year, a teacher has ninth-grade students write letters to the incoming freshmen, including advice or things they wish they'd known before starting high school. The following is an excerpt from one student's essay. Take your time in school seriously. Having friends, finding a date, showing off in class may seem like your top priority, but that can be a real distraction. People I thought were my best friends ended up stabbing me in the back. It's nice to be liked, but that's not the only thing that matters. In order to improve this student's essay, the teacher should suggest which of the following revisions?
add additional details to support the topic sentence (It is not "edit and revise for grammatical correctness")
A high-school English class is analyzing an excerpt from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë."Most true is it that "beauty is in the eye of the gazer." My master's colourless, olive face, square, massive brow, broad and jetty eyebrows, deep eyes, strong features, firm, grim mouth, — all energy, decision, will, — were not beautiful, according to rule; but they were more than beautiful to me; they were full of an interest, an influence that quite mastered me, — that took my feelings from my own power and fettered them in his. I had not intended to love him; the reader knows I had wrought hard to extricate from my soul the germs of love there detected; and now, at the first renewed view of him, they spontaneously arrived, green and strong! He made me love him without looking at me." What literary devices are used in this excerpt?
aphorism and imagery
A teacher has students read the following sentences from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens. (1) In an armchair, with an elbow resting on the table and her head leaning on that hand, sat the strangest lady I have ever seen, or shall ever see. She was dressed in rich materials—satins, and lace and silks—all of white.(2) My sister, Mrs. Joe, with black hair and eyes, had such a prevailing redness of skin that I sometimes used to wonder whether it was possible she washed herself with a nutmeg-grater instead of soap. The teacher uses the sentences to show how writing can be made more compact with the use of which of the following type of phrase?
appositive phrase
A middle school teacher is designing a rubric to use when evaluating students' oral presentations. She is planning to focus the rubric on a few different categories. Which category would the following question fit into? Are the words spoken clearly and correctly?
articulation
A teacher is planning a lesson based on the poem "Wind" by Gwendolyn Bennet. First, she reads the poem aloud, then asks her students to read the poem twice more, first silently, then quietly aloud to themselves at their desks. After rereading the poem, students will work in pairs to annotate the poem in the following ways: paraphrase each stanza underline examples of figurative language mark the rhyme scheme identify the shift in the poem Finally, students will independently answer a multiple choice question requiring them to choose a theme present in the poem. Wind By Gwendolyn Bennett The wind was a care-free soul That broke the chains of earth, And strode for a moment across the land With the wild halloo of his mirth. He little cared that he ripped up trees, That houses fell at his hand, That his step broke calm on the breast of seas, That his feet stirred clouds of sand. But when he had had his little joke, Had shouted and laughed and sung, When the trees were scarred, their branches broke, And their foliage aching hung, He crept to his cave with a stealthy tread, With rain-filled eyes and low-bowed head. How should the teacher extend the final activity in the lesson to better support the development of literary analysis skills?
ask students to highlight evidence for their theme and write a few sentences explaining how the evidence supports the theme
A ninth-grade class is working on writing persuasive essays. The classroom reads through an article published in a local newspaper, a copy of a letter the teacher wrote to the school board about an issue in the school system, and an excerpt from a former student's essay before beginning the writing process for their own essay. This lesson format best demonstrates the teacher's understanding that:
high-quality mentor texts should be used to model effective writing.
Students are conducting research before drafting a research paper. The teacher demonstrates how to use the online search features to find a source. Which step should the teacher model next to ensure students are locating credible sources?
how to review a chosen source's bibliography information
The following paragraph is the beginning of the biographical entry "Newton" from The American Encyclopedia of History, Biography and Travel, comprising Ancient and Modern History: the Biography of Eminent Men of Europe and America, and the Lives of Distinguished Travelers by Thomas H. Prescott, A. M (1857). The year in which Galileo died, was that in which Isaac Newton was born. This eminent individual, who was destined to establish the truth of the discoveries of his illustrious predecessors, Copernicus and Galileo, was born on the 25th of December 1642, at Coltersworth, in Lincolnshire, where his father cultivated his own moderate paternal property. After receiving the rudiments of education, under the superintendence of his mother, he was sent, at the age of twelve, to the grammar school at Grantham, where the bias of his early genius was shown by a skill in mechanical contrivances, which excited no small admiration. Whilst other boys were at play, his leisure hours were employed in forming working models of mills and machinery; he constructed a water-clock from an old box, which had an index moved by a piece of wood sinking as the drops fell from the bottom, and a regular dial-plate to indicate the hours. Which of the following strategies would be most effective in helping students establish a purpose for reading this text?
complete a KWL chart
A teacher is planning a lesson based on the poem "Wind" by Gwendolyn Bennet. First, she reads the poem aloud, then asks her students to read the poem twice more, first silently, then quietly aloud to themselves at their desks. After rereading the poem, students will work in pairs to annotate the poem in the following ways: paraphrase each stanza underline examples of figurative language mark the rhyme scheme identify the shift in the poem Finally, students will independently answer a multiple choice question requiring them to choose a theme present in the poem. Wind By Gwendolyn Bennett The wind was a care-free soul That broke the chains of earth, And strode for a moment across the land With the wild halloo of his mirth. He little cared that he ripped up trees, That houses fell at his hand, That his step broke calm on the breast of seas, That his feet stirred clouds of sand. But when he had had his little joke, Had shouted and laughed and sung, When the trees were scarred, their branches broke, And their foliage aching hung, He crept to his cave with a stealthy tread, With rain-filled eyes and low-bowed head. Which of the following best explains the purpose of including the three readings of the poem at the beginning of the lesson?
connecting receptive and expressive language to increase comprehension
A twelfth-grade English class is reading Macbeth. Which of the following strategies would be most appropriate for students to use to determine the meaning of the word "harbinger" in the following excerpt: The rest is labour, which is not used for you: I'll be myself the harbinger and make joyful The hearing of my wife with your approach; So humbly take my leave.
contextual analysis
A middle school English teacher is reviewing grammar concepts with students. He writes the following sentence on the board: After our dog ran away, my brother and me spent hours searching the neighbors' yards calling it's name. What type of errors are displayed in the sentence? More than one choice is correct. Select all answers that apply.
correct use apostrophes to show possession correct use of subject and object pronouns
As part of a creative writing unit, a class participates in an activity where they write one sentence of a story, then pass the paper to the next student to continue the story. Students are only able to read the sentence written by the student before them, no other lines. Once the story has made a lap around the room, everyone opens their original paper and reads what was created. This activity best supports which stage of the writing process?
drafting
While listening to the radio on the way to school, a student and his parents enjoy listening to the local radio's morning talk show DJs. At one point, the host describes how he spent his weekend and tells a humorous anecdote before asking listeners to call in and share their own weekend mishaps. The primary purpose of this radio segment is:
entertainment
A history teacher will be starting a unit on trade routes and how the flow of goods and money impacted the development of colonial America and has asked for support from the English language arts teacher. Which of the following lessons could the ELA teacher incorporate into English class to best support students in their history lessons?
identifying the text structure used in historical texts (it is not "analysis of root words related to economic or political terms")
After completing their reading of The Scarlet Letter, the teacher asked her students to choose a quotation from the text that they found memorable and impactful. Each student would read their quotation aloud and briefly explain why they chose it. One student chose the following quotation: "So Pearl—the elf child—the demon offspring, as some people up to that epoch persisted in considering her—became the richest heiress of her day in the New World. Not improbably this circumstance wrought a very material change in the public estimation; and had the mother and child remained here, little Pearl at a marriageable period of life might have mingled her wild blood with the lineage of the devoutest Puritan among them all." The students followed the quotation with this response: "This was important to me because it is about how the people in the town are big hypocrites. They think they are so good, but they treated Hester so badly." Which of the following would best help the class better understand why the student had this reaction to the quotation?
facilitate a comparison between the town's judgment of the child to the narrator's prediction of how they would judge her as a wealthy young woman
While finishing a draft of a short story, students use a word processing program to create a final, ready-to-publish draft. One student decides to illustrate her story by copying related images from the internet and pasting them into her text with no captions or explanation. The teacher could best use this student's decision to give the class a mini-lesson on:
fair use, open source, and copyright infringement.
An eighth-grade English teacher is teaching her students how to identify different text structures. As part of the lesson, she asks her students to read the following excerpt about the famous philosophers, Plato and Aristotle. Although much of Aristotle's work was influenced by Plato, Aristotle was able to find many faults in Plato's theories and in time became a critic of his teacher. Their work targets many of the same aspects of philosophy, but their theories differ quite a bit. They both believed that thoughts were more powerful than senses. However, Plato believed the senses could not be used to determine reality, whereas Aristotle believed just the opposite, that the senses were needed to determine reality. So while Plato was busy imagining an invisible world, Aristotle looked to find truth in the world around him. Which of the following will help students recognize the text structure of this excerpt?
finding signal words
A ninth-grade English class is reading "The Fisherman And The Draug," a short story included in Weird Tales from Northern Seas by Jonas Lie (1893). The following paragraphs are an excerpt from this story. One day, as he was walking along with a Kvejtepig in his hand, and thinking the matter over, he unexpectedly came upon a monstrous seal, which lay sunning itself right behind a rock on the strand, and was as much surprised to see the man as the man was to see the seal. But Elias was not slack; from the top of the rock on which he stood, he hurled the long heavy Kvejtepig right into the monster's back, just below the neck. The seal immediately rose up on its tail right into the air as high as a boat's mast, and looked so evilly and viciously at him with its bloodshot eyes, at the same time showing its grinning teeth, that Elias thought he should have died on the spot for sheer fright. Then it plunged into the sea, and lashed the water into bloody foam behind it. Elias didn't stop to see more, but that same evening there drifted into the boat place on Kvalcreek, on which his house stood, a Kvejtepole, with the hooked iron head snapped off. Elias thought no more about it, but in the course of the autumn he bought his Sexæring, for which he had been building a little boat-shed the whole summer. This excerpt would be best categorized as which of the following genres?
folktale
By the time many students reach middle school, teachers have often stopped reading aloud to them. But, research shows that there are still many benefits to reading aloud to students as they follow along in the text, including which of the following? Select all answers that apply.
furthers student comprehension by removing the stress of decoding words allows students to hear complex texts above their reading level improves students' understanding of different sentence structures
A Winter Twilight By Angelina Weld Grimké A silence slipping around like death, Yet chased by a whisper, a sigh, a breath; One group of trees, lean, naked and cold, Inking their cress 'gainst a sky green-gold; One path that knows where the corn flowers were; Lonely, apart, unyielding, one fir; And over it softly leaning down, One star that I loved ere the fields went brown. After reading the poem, a teacher paraphrases line three of the poem in the following way: A group of thin trees have lost their leaves She asks her students to compare her line with the original line of poetry and write one to two sentences exploring how the feeling changed when the words changed. Which of the activities would best provide students with the opportunity to demonstrate their understanding of this lesson?
have students rewrite a different line of the poem while keeping the same literal meaning but expressing a positive mood
After completing their reading of The Scarlet Letter, the teacher asked her students to choose a quotation from the text that they found memorable and impactful. Each student would read their quotation aloud and briefly explain why they chose it. One student chose the following quotation: "So Pearl—the elf child—the demon offspring, as some people up to that epoch persisted in considering her—became the richest heiress of her day in the New World. Not improbably this circumstance wrought a very material change in the public estimation; and had the mother and child remained here, little Pearl at a marriageable period of life might have mingled her wild blood with the lineage of the devoutest Puritan among them all." The students followed the quotation with this response: "This was important to me because it is about how the people in the town are big hypocrites. They think they are so good, but they treated Hester so badly." The student's response demonstrates which of the following skills?
inferring character motivations
Once a week, a teacher lets the class spend the last five minutes talking with friends. The teacher chooses a new student each week to have a short conversation with as well. This use of classroom time best allows students to practice:
informal oral communication skills.
An eighth-grade class is given a paper copy of a famous speech. The teacher plays a recording of the speech and instructs students to circle or underline on their paper where they hear the speaker emphasize words. This active listening activity best helps students with:
listening to determine the tone of the speech.
An eighth-grade class is reading "Wuthering Heights" by Emily Brontë. During class, the teacher pulls out the following passage from the novel to focus on. In this passage, the protagonist is describing her thoughts on people who live in the countryside. "I perceive that people in these regions acquire over people in towns the value that a spider in a dungeon does over a spider in a cottage, to their various occupants; and yet the deepened attraction is not entirely owing to the situation of the looker-on. They do live more in earnest, more in themselves, and less in surface, change, and frivolous external things. I could fancy a love for life here almost possible; and I was a fixed unbeliever in any love of a year's standing. One state resembles setting a hungry man down to a single dish, on which he may concentrate his entire appetite and do it justice; the other, introducing him to a table laid out by French cooks: he can perhaps extract as much enjoyment from the whole; but each part is a mere atom in his regard and remembrance..." Which literary device should the teacher make sure to review with students prior to reading this excerpt?
metaphor
After completing their reading of The Scarlet Letter, the teacher asked her students to choose a quotation from the text that they found memorable and impactful. Each student would read their quotation aloud and briefly explain why they chose it. One student chose the following quotation: "So Pearl—the elf child—the demon offspring, as some people up to that epoch persisted in considering her—became the richest heiress of her day in the New World. Not improbably this circumstance wrought a very material change in the public estimation; and had the mother and child remained here, little Pearl at a marriageable period of life might have mingled her wild blood with the lineage of the devoutest Puritan among them all." The students followed the quotation with this response: "This was important to me because it is about how the people in the town are big hypocrites. They think they are so good, but they treated Hester so badly." What literary device does the author use to depict the hatred and dislike that some of the townspeople felt toward the child, Pearl?
metaphor (it is not "hyperbole")
A Winter Twilight By Angelina Weld Grimké A silence slipping around like death, Yet chased by a whisper, a sigh, a breath; One group of trees, lean, naked and cold, Inking their cress 'gainst a sky green-gold; One path that knows where the corn flowers were; Lonely, apart, unyielding, one fir; And over it softly leaning down, One star that I loved ere the fields went brown. After reading the poem, a teacher paraphrases line three of the poem in the following way: A group of thin trees have lost their leaves She asks her students to compare her line with the original line of poetry and write one to two sentences exploring how the feeling changed when the words changed. Which of the following elements of the poem was present in the original, but is absent when the teacher paraphrased this line?
personification (it is not "imagery")
A teacher has provided her class with a descriptive writing assignment. The students have chosen a topic and are now filling out a sensory-focused graphic organizer in which they list descriptions that align with each of the five senses. What step in the writing process are the students most likely to be in?
prewriting
An English teacher presents the following writing prompt to her students following their reading of To Kill a Mockingbird: Choose a character from the novel and analyze how his or her characteristics contribute to conflict in the novel. Which of the following examples of differentiation would best support the organization of the essay for ELL students?
provide a graphic organizer during the prewriting stage (it is not "provide an example of a literary analysis essay for a different novel to serve as a mentor text")
An eighth-grade class has just finished a first draft of an informational writing assignment. The teacher would like to group students together to conduct peer assessments. In order to make the most efficient use of students' time, the teacher should:
provide each group member with a rubric focused on one writing trait.
A middle-school teacher is preparing an oral language assessment for her students in which she plans to listen to and analyze students' oral language to assess strengths and weaknesses and the next steps to support growth. Which of the following skills would be appropriate to include in her rubric? Select all answers that apply.
reads fluently and with correct pronunciation modifies speech, inflection and volume as appropriate uses a variety of sentence types and structures
A ninth-grade English class is reading "The Fisherman And The Draug," a short story included in Weird Tales from Northern Seas by Jonas Lie (1893). The following paragraphs are an excerpt from this story. One day, as he was walking along with a Kvejtepig in his hand, and thinking the matter over, he unexpectedly came upon a monstrous seal, which lay sunning itself right behind a rock on the strand, and was as much surprised to see the man as the man was to see the seal. But Elias was not slack; from the top of the rock on which he stood, he hurled the long heavy Kvejtepig right into the monster's back, just below the neck. The seal immediately rose up on its tail right into the air as high as a boat's mast, and looked so evilly and viciously at him with its bloodshot eyes, at the same time showing its grinning teeth, that Elias thought he should have died on the spot for sheer fright. Then it plunged into the sea, and lashed the water into bloody foam behind it. Elias didn't stop to see more, but that same evening there drifted into the boat place on Kvalcreek, on which his house stood, a Kvejtepole, with the hooked iron head snapped off. Elias thought no more about it, but in the course of the autumn he bought his Sexæring, for which he had been building a little boat-shed the whole summer. Which of the following is the best definition for the word "slack" as used in the sentence "But Elias was not slack; from the top of the rock on which he stood, he hurled the long heavy Kvejtepig right into the monster's back, just below the neck"?
slow-moving
An eighth-grade English teacher is teaching her students about persuasive advertising techniques. She shows them a car advertisement that provides details about the car and suggests that only a person who wears fancy clothes, lives in a mansion, and goes on luxurious vacations belongs in such a car. Which of the following persuasive techniques is being used in this advertisement?
snob appeal
A high school English teacher is teaching his students word identification strategies that they can use for unfamiliar words in a text. She writes the following sentence on the board: George had somehow somnambulated his way into the middle of the highway behind his home, and survived unscathed. Which word identification strategy would be most effective in helping students determine the meaning of "somnambulate"?
structural
Group 1: unique, different, odd, peculiar, eccentric, distinctive Group 2: thrifty, frugal, cheap, stingy, economical Group 3: inquisitive, interested, curious, prying, nosy What was the likely purpose of this exercise?
teaching students the difference between connotation and denotation of words
When a teacher returns graded informational essays to her class, a student notices that he has lost points in the "idea development" category. Which of the following best explains what aspect of his writing needs improvement?
the depth and/or quality of the information presented in his essay
In 1439, Johannes Gutenburg invented the printing press. This invention and the ease with which written text could be printed and received across England prompted which of the following changes to the English language?
the standardization of English language orthography (it is not "the standardization of English dialects")
A class views an image of a billboard commonly seen on the roads in the city. The teacher asks the question, "What type of person will respond positively to this image?" This question requires students to analyze what part of the billboard?
the target audience
After a lesson on combining simple sentences into compound or complex sentences, an eighth-grade teacher projects a pair of sentences on the board. On an individual whiteboard, the students combine the sentences using the proper English conventions reviewed in the lesson. As the students practice with new sentences, the teacher walks around the room and praises or provides feedback to students as needed. This style of informal writing assessment is effective because:
the teacher can provide individual feedback in real-time to students.
A teacher is planning a lesson based on the poem "Wind" by Gwendolyn Bennet. First, she reads the poem aloud, then asks her students to read the poem twice more, first silently, then quietly aloud to themselves at their desks. After rereading the poem, students will work in pairs to annotate the poem in the following ways: paraphrase each stanza underline examples of figurative language mark the rhyme scheme identify the shift in the poem Finally, students will independently answer a multiple choice question requiring them to choose a theme present in the poem. Wind By Gwendolyn Bennett The wind was a care-free soul That broke the chains of earth, And strode for a moment across the land With the wild halloo of his mirth. He little cared that he ripped up trees, That houses fell at his hand, That his step broke calm on the breast of seas, That his feet stirred clouds of sand. But when he had had his little joke, Had shouted and laughed and sung, When the trees were scarred, their branches broke, And their foliage aching hung, He crept to his cave with a stealthy tread, With rain-filled eyes and low-bowed head. As the students annotate the poem, the teacher is most likely hoping that they will notice:
the use of graphic elements to create a feeling of movement.
A teacher overhears the following conversation between two students before class starts. Student 1: ...would not stop. Everything was so laggy even after I reset my router. Student 2: Did you clear your cookies? What about defragging your hard drive? Student 1: No, I didn't think of that. I'll try that tonight when I get home. Student 2: Cool. If that doesn't work, text me and I'll try to help you troubleshoot. This conversation best demonstrates:
the use of short sentences to convey a friendly tone.
A high-school English class is analyzing an excerpt from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë."Most true is it that "beauty is in the eye of the gazer." My master's colourless, olive face, square, massive brow, broad and jetty eyebrows, deep eyes, strong features, firm, grim mouth, — all energy, decision, will, — were not beautiful, according to rule; but they were more than beautiful to me; they were full of an interest, an influence that quite mastered me, — that took my feelings from my own power and fettered them in his. I had not intended to love him; the reader knows I had wrought hard to extricate from my soul the germs of love there detected; and now, at the first renewed view of him, they spontaneously arrived, green and strong! He made me love him without looking at me." Which of the following best states the meaning of "mastered" as used in the following quote? "...they were full of an interest, an influence that quite mastered me."
to control one's emotions
An English teacher provides her students with the following excerpt from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens for a close-reading exercise. "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way - in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insist on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only." What is the purpose of using repetition of the phrase "it was" at the start of each clause in the first half of the passage?
to emphasize the direct opposition of the statements
A Winter Twilight By Angelina Weld Grimké A silence slipping around like death, Yet chased by a whisper, a sigh, a breath; One group of trees, lean, naked and cold, Inking their cress 'gainst a sky green-gold; One path that knows where the corn flowers were; Lonely, apart, unyielding, one fir; And over it softly leaning down, One star that I loved ere the fields went brown. After reading the poem, a teacher paraphrases line three of the poem in the following way: A group of thin trees have lost their leaves She asks her students to compare her line with the original line of poetry and write one to two sentences exploring how the feeling changed when the words changed. Based on the scenario described, which of the following is most likely the teacher's goal with this lesson?
to help her students understand how diction impacts mood and tone (it is not "to improve student understanding of figurative language")
A ninth-grade English class is reading "The Fisherman And The Draug," a short story included in Weird Tales from Northern Seas by Jonas Lie (1893). The following paragraphs are an excerpt from this story. One day, as he was walking along with a Kvejtepig in his hand, and thinking the matter over, he unexpectedly came upon a monstrous seal, which lay sunning itself right behind a rock on the strand, and was as much surprised to see the man as the man was to see the seal. But Elias was not slack; from the top of the rock on which he stood, he hurled the long heavy Kvejtepig right into the monster's back, just below the neck. The seal immediately rose up on its tail right into the air as high as a boat's mast, and looked so evilly and viciously at him with its bloodshot eyes, at the same time showing its grinning teeth, that Elias thought he should have died on the spot for sheer fright. Then it plunged into the sea, and lashed the water into bloody foam behind it. Elias didn't stop to see more, but that same evening there drifted into the boat place on Kvalcreek, on which his house stood, a Kvejtepole, with the hooked iron head snapped off. Elias thought no more about it, but in the course of the autumn he bought his Sexæring, for which he had been building a little boat-shed the whole summer. Which of the following components of the passage would most likely pose a reading comprehension challenge for the students?
understanding the Norwegian terms and geography
