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 Assessment
Review Objective:
This is your chance to show your understanding and skills
in analyzing and interpreting elements of literature. You
have learned and practiced many literary concepts and skills
needed to be an effective reader. Now you can prove it to
yourself!
You will be asked to demonstrate your skills in areas practiced
in Lessons 5,6 and 7. There will be some multiple choice,
some short answer, and some extended response questions.
Warm up time! Let's do a quick review of objectives and tips
from each lesson to be sure you're prepared to do your best.
Activate what you already know so you do your best.
Read over the objectives and vocabulary for each lesson.
Lesson 5 - Review and practice
applying concepts and skills in three areas:
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literary elements such as plot,
conflict, setting, theme, and more,
- figurative language, such as simile, metaphor,
personification and more,
- stylistic devices such as exaggeration, irony,
humor, and dialogue.
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Lesson 6 - Identify, practice
and apply reading and writing strategies
to understand and make these comparisons within
a text:
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- sequence of events (this helps analyze
cause and effect),
- compare and contrast literary elements
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Lesson 7 - Identify,
practice and apply reading and writing
strategies to understand and make these
comparisons between two or more different
literary texts:
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compare and contrast
literary elements
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Review the Tips and Tools
for each lesson. Remember, there is more information on each
lesson's page. This is just a summary of key points. This is
a good place to start, but you will also want to go back and
review the first page of each lesson.
Lesson 5: Apply Understanding of Literary Elements
Ask questions
while you read. Be active in your reading and wonder why the
author wrote the story or poem in a certain way.
- What is the setting? Would the story stay the same if
the setting changed, or is the setting very important
to the story?
- Who is telling the story? What point of view is used?
Why?
- Be aware as you move through the different parts of
a plot in a story. Think about why the author chose the
setting, the characters, the conflicts, and the resolution?
Were you able to predict the resolution?
- When you meet up with a simile or metaphor, stop and
think about what two things are being compared and what
the similarities are? Why would the author use the object
as a comparison?
- What is the conflict in the story? How do the characters'
actions contribute to the conflict?
- How are the conflicts resolved? Have the characters
changed?
- What is the theme or message of the story? Does the
title tell me anything? Does a character make a statement
about life or people from what they learn?
- Why did the author use dialogue in that situation? What
affect does it have on the story?
- Watch for the delightful sounds created with alliteration
and onomatopoeia. Think about what they add to the poem
or story.
- When you find an object talking, or acting, or being
described like a human being, ask how that makes the story
or poem stronger? What is the effect on you as a reader?
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Lesson 6: Comparing and Contrasting Literary Elements
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Sequence of Events is simply the
order events occur in a story or poem.
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Look for key words: first,
next, then, after that, before, when, now, finally.
- Understanding the sequence of events helps the reader
understand the plot, the characters and their problems,
the reason why events or situations happened.
- Understanding sequence of events leads to understanding
cause and effect.
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Cause/Effect: A cause
is a starter or a reason. Some events, statements, situations,
or ideas cause others things to happen.
The result, or reason, or consequence of a cause
is an effect.
- Try an, "As a result of" statement
with events in the story to identify cause / effect:
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a result of the torrential rainfall, the football
game was cancelled, my boots were ruined, and the
drought was officially declared over.
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Compare means to find similarities,
or things that are alike, or the same
in some way. Contrast means to find differences,
or things that are not alike.
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Use graphic organizers to figure out connections
between events, characters, conflicts, figures of speech,
etc.
- Write with intention, purpose and organization. Review
the formatting ideas on Lesson 6, Tips page.
- Words and phrases that show similarity
| both |
together |
alike |
equal |
uniform |
| parallel |
comparable |
equivalent |
same |
complementary |
| at the same time |
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- Words and phrases that show differences
| different |
although |
while |
unlike |
various |
| individual |
unique |
distinct |
otherwise |
dissimilar |
| in contrast |
besides |
in spite of |
however |
on the other hand |
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Lesson 7: Comparing and Contrasting Literary Elements Between
Texts
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The skills are the same as those reviewed in Lesson 6;
just remember that you'll be comparing elements between two
different literary texts.
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If you have time, you might skim over the examples in
lessons where you might have questions.
Skim the Rubrics section of this course to review tips
on answering multiple choice, short answer, and extended response
questions.
Be sure you are comfortable with the criteria for scoring
and evaluating short answer questions because scoring your
writing will be part of your responsibility.
When you are all warmed up and have about 90
minutes, go ahead and demonstrate your effective reader's skills!
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