28.1. "The Nest" RL Assessment and W9.

What Are We Learning This Week?

Skill: We are learning to deal with standardized testing formats -- the multiple choice test (RL) and the open-ended question (W9).

Essential Question: What do parents and children owe one another?

What Are We Practicing This Week?

We will use this to practice previously learned skills (RL1, RL2, RL3, and RL4). The test format is new, and important to get accustomed to*, but the questions that are on the test are all aspects of fiction and nonfiction that we have been discussing, analyzing, and practicing all year.




Introduction: Our new unit focusing on parents, children, and home. These are very important ideas for everyone, but especially teens. Today's story is a relatively easy one to read and understand, but deals with an idea that is easy to get but hard to live.

Things that Are Good to Know:

1. You're not penalized for guessing on most tests, so never leave any blank.
2. 90% of stories obey the Five Fingers, so look for them as you read to see it you're getting the story.
3. When you are done, write down (quickly) what you think the central idea is. Use that to make better multiple choice guesses for the ones you aren't 100% sure about.
4. If a test asks you the meaning of a word or phrase, use the three concentric boxes (sentence, paragraph, passage) technique to try and determine the word meaning from context.
5. If the text asks you the meaning of a sophisticated vocabulary word, try to split the word into prefixes, roots, and suffixes to look for clues to the meaning.

Independent Practice: Read the story and take the test.

"The Nest" by Robert Zacks

Make a copy of this file and type your answers directly onto it, then save it as "[YOUR NAME] Nest Quiz."

Assessment: This is a pretty straightforward quiz, it'll be graded NJASK style, out of 13 points, 9 multiple choice and 4 open-ended points. Ten or more is great, seven or more is passing.