Quarter 1 Assessment

1.)        What is an autobiography?

• a story of a person's life written by that person.

• a story of another person's life written by that person.

• a poem of a person's life written by that person.

• a rap song of another person's life written by that person.

2.)        What is a biography?

• a account of someone's life written by that person.

• a story of a specific moment in someone's life written by someone else.

• a story of someone's life written by someone else.

• a story of a specific moment in someone's life written by that person.

3.)        What is an objective summary?

• A text summary that is not free of personal ideas and judgements, and communicates the central idea and significant supporting details of a text in your own words.

• A story about yourself that is free of personal ideas and judgements, and communicates the central idea and significant supporting details of a text in your own words.

• A story about yourself that includes personal ideas and judgements, and communicates the central idea and significant supporting details of a text in your own words.

• A text summary that is free of personal ideas and judgements, and communicates the central idea and significant supporting details of a text in your own words.

4.)        What is tone?

• The feelings of the author communicated by his/her voice.

• The feelings of the author communicated by his/her word use.

• The feelings of the reader when they read a text.

• I don't know, because I didn't study.

5.)       What are the literature signposts?

• Words of the wiser

  Again & Again

  Tough Questions

  Contrast & Contradictions

  AHA Moment!

  Memory Moment

• Words of the wiser

  Again & Again

  Contrast & Contradictions

  AHA Moment!

  Memory Moment

• Compare & Contrast

  Again & Again

  Tough Questions

  Contrast & Contradictions

  AHA Moment!

  Memory Moment

• Words of the wiser

  Cause & Effect

  Tough Questions

  Contrast & Contradictions

  AHA Moment!

  Memory Moment

       What is the purpose of transition words?

• Transition words complete your sentence.

• Transition words make your sentences clear and concise.

• Transition words help the writer flow from one sentence to the next sentence smoothly.

• Transition words do not have a purpose.

  When elaborating your sentences; what questions do you answer?

• What

  When

  Where

  Why

  How

• Who

  What

  When

  Where

  Why

  How

• Who

  What

  When

  Where

• Who

  What

  When

  Where

  Why

  What is a memoir?

• None of these answers are correct.

• A story about an important moment in history.

• A story about an important memory.

• A story about a specific time in a persons life.

What type of texts do we look for the “central idea,” instead of the “maid idea?”

• Informational texts and Non-Fictional texts

• Non-Fictional texts and Fictional texts

• Fictional texts and realistic fictional texts

• Fictional, non-fictional, realistic fiction and informational texts

     What is a verb?

• An action word that describes an adjective.

• A word that describes a person, place, thing or idea.

• A word that describes an action word.

• An action word.