Summative Assessment Student

 

Questions are based on the radio play Dracula located at www.unknown.nu/mercury and Oil and Blood at http://www.lib.umd.edu/ETC/ReadingRoom/Poetry/Yeats/oil-and-blood.

 

  1. Describe the significance of the setting of the play in establishing the mood of the piece. Use details from the play to support your answer.

 

  1. Evaluate the effectiveness of the author’s tone in Dracula. Support your answer with details and/or examples from the text.

 

  1. Compare the theme of Oil and Blood to the theme of Dracula. http://www.lib.umd.edu/ETC/ReadingRoom/Poetry/Yeats/oil-and-blood

 

  1. Evaluate the captain’s solution of tying himself to the helm to solve the problem of the mysterious disappearance of his crew. Use details from the text to support your answer.

 

  1. Using a page of the radio play script, identify and label two text features. Do not choose the title as one of the text features.

 

  1. Locate the title on the given page of the radio script. Is the title effective? Give details and/or examples from the text to support your answer.

 

  1. Why were people in 1938 frightened by the radio play? (Text to history/culture). Use details from the play and from your knowledge of 1938 culture to support your answer.

 

  1. In a graphic organizer, compare and contrast Dracula in the radio play to Vlad the Impaler http://www.Vladtheimpaler.com/ in the nonfiction article. Give at least two similarities and two differences in your answer.

 

  1. How would the story be different if told from Dracula’s point of view? Use details and/or examples from the play as support.

 

  1. Analyze the author’s style in the following quote from Dracula, “Harker: Help! Help! Help! (Narrating) the wagons have gone. I’m alone in the castle. I’m alone in the castle. I’m alone in the castle! I’m alone! I’m alone! I’m alone!”

 

  1. After listening to the Dracula radio play using the given plot diagram, label elements of plot in Dracula. Choose one of the plot elements and explain how it belongs to the position on the plot diagram where you have placed it. Use details from the text as support.

 

  1. Describe what we know about Dracula’s character traits based upon the radio play. Use details from the text to support your answer.

 

  1. Present a radio play incorporating media.

 

  1. Use the writing process to create a modern day horror radio play.

 

  1. Evaluate plays of group members to choose the one with the best audience appeal, logic, reasonableness, etc.

 

  1. Why is the radio play you created with your group scary? (text to self)