Assessment Review #5

This is it--the last one! Remember, keep your answers in your binder until further notice. I think I will check them on Tuesday.

Instructions:

I. Get out your assessment notes.

II. Click the link to open a new window with the poem, Two Missing Calculators (http://www2.mcdaniel.edu/slm/student/zellnerk/twomisca.htm)

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.

VI. Now that you're thoroughly grossed out, answer the following questions on your paper.

1. In your notes, create a chart with four catgories: who?, what?, when?, and where? Who? is the speaker. What? is the action/plot. When? and Where? are the setting. Fill in as many of those answers as possible for this poem.

2. Which of these words best describes the feelings of the speaker?

(A) gleeful
(B) conflicted
(C) terrified
(D) infuriated

3. Look back at lines of the poem that are in italics. They are written that way to show:

(A) changes from one speaker to another
(B) words spoken aloud
(C) thoughts the author wants to emphasize
(D) ideas that are most important to the speaker

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

1) The speaker is watching students take a math test.
2) A bug is dying nearby in a plastic tub.
3) The speaker thinks about math and the dying bug.

Which of these best combines the ideas into one sentence?

(A) A bug is dying while the speaker watches it in a plastic tub and students take a math test.
(B) Thinking about a math test taken by students, a bug dies in a plastic tub while the speaker watches.
(C) Watching students take a test, the speaker thinks about math and a bug that is dying in a nearby plastic tub.
(D) Dying in a plastic tub, a bug draws the attention of the speaker, who is watching students take a math test and thinking about math and the dying bug.

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

(A) symmetry
(B) stumble
(C) monitor
(D) graphite

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