Part I

Teacher note:  Select a new scene from an appropriate film, keeping your testing time frame in mind.  If you haven’t shown the entire film of The Odyssey, you might elect to use a scene for the summative assessment.  The scene should contain appropriate music, setting, lighting effects, and costuming for the students to analyze.  You may need to show the scene more than once for the students.

Prompt:  Using the Viewing Log graphic organizer, record notes about two of the following elements from the film: the music, the setting, the lighting effects, or the costuming.  Explain the effects of both elements on the mood of the film.  Use one detail and/or example for each element to support your response.

Part II

Look at the words listed below. 

interstate

intercoastal

intersect

1.      Add two words with the same prefix to the list.

2.      Using your knowledge of prefixes and root words, provide a brief definition of all listed words.

Part III

Prompt:  Read the following poem.  Pause after each stanza to write a prediction, note questions that come to mind, or reflect on an earlier prediction or question.

The Road Not Taken

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,

And sorry I could not travel both

And be one traveler, long I stood

And looked down one as far as I could

To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,

And having perhaps the better claim,

Because it was grassy and wanted wear;

Though as for that the passing there

Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay

In leaves no step had trodden black.

Oh, I kept the first for another day!

Yet knowing how way leads on to way,

I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh

Somewhere ages and ages hence:

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-

I took the one less traveled by,

And that has made all the difference.

from Beers, Kylene. (2003). When Kids Can’t Read: What Teachers Can Do. Portsmouth NH: Heinemann.

Part IV

Prompt:  Using the text provided by your teacher, complete a graphic organizer for note-taking.  Use the graphic organizer to write a multi-paragraph summary of the text.

Complete two

starter sentences,

reflecting on your

thinking process as

you read the poem.

I predict that…

Why…

I think that…

Who is …

Complete two starter sentences, reflecting on your thinking process as you read the poem.

Why did…

Reading this part makes me think that this ________________________

_____________________________________________________________

______________________________________________is about to happen.

This is confusing because…

Why…

Complete two starter sentences, reflecting on your thinking process as you read the poem.

Oh, I get it…

I wonder if…

Do you think that…

Why did…

Complete two starter sentences, reflecting on your thinking process as you read the poem.

At first I thought _______________________________________________

__________________________________________________but now I

think _______________________________________________________.

What would happen if . . .

This part is really saying . . .

At this point, I predict the speaker will _____________________________

____________________________________________because__________

____________________________________________________________.