Hello and welcome to Assessment Review Part I. I fear that many of you may miss the bulk of our review this week due to HSAs in Biology, Geometry, and Algebra; therefore, I've created a series of practice activities that I expect you'll complete on your own. Keep your answers in your binder until further notice. Likely as not, I will check them during the last week of school.

Instructions:

I. Get out a sheet of paper and write "Online Assessment Review" at the top.
You will store it in the notes section of your binder.

II. Click the link to open a new window with the poem, The Local News, by Gary Hyland (http://www.garyhyland.com/Poetry.htm#TLN)

III. Read the poem at least twice, and leave the window open so that you may refer back to it.

IV. Come back to this page.

V. Answer the following questions on your paper.

1. Which of these words best describes the tone of the poem?

(A) mournful
(B) blissful
(C) uninterested
(D) informative

2. What are the main objects of personification in the poem?

(A) crocus[es]
(B) moose
(C) civic officials
(D) guerrillas

3. A student is writing about the poem. Here are three sentences she wants to include:

1) Crocuses are flowers.
2) They are covering the ground and fragrancing the air.
3) The crocuses are being compared to rebels.

Which of these best combines the ideas into one sentence?

(A) The crocuses are flowers, and they are covering the ground and fragrancing the air, being compared to rebels.
(B) The crocuses are being compared to rebels, and they are flowers that cover the ground and fragrance the air.
(C) Covering the ground and fragrancing the air, crocuses are flowers that are being compared to rebels.
(D) Crocuses are flowers, which are compared to rebels, that cover the ground and fragrance the air.

4. Which of these words is used as a modifier in the poem?

(A) outlying
(B) reports
(C) standing
(D) effects