Summative Assessment

Selected response

For each question that follows, circle the letter for the sentence that uses correct capitalization.

1.      a.  During prohibition, it was illegal to sell liquor in the United States.

      b.  The Boston team party is a famous american event.

      c.   In the Eighteenth Century, America revolted against England.

d.      The Holocaust took place during World War II.

2.      a.  On clear nights, we gaze at the Milky Way.

                  b.  A cabbage Butterfly is known as Pieris rapae.

            c.   Several planets have more than one Moon.

d.      A snail is an example of a Gastropod.

3.      a.  The neolithic age is also called the new stone age.

b.      Systematic agriculture began in the Neolithic age.

c.       No humans lived during the pleistocene age.

d.      The paleolithic Era was a time when people survived as hunters and gatherers.

4.      a.  “Mrs. Allen,” asked Shanna, “May Kaylee and I be lab partners?”

b.      “Of course you may,” she replied, “Since you always work well together.”

c.       “Thank you,” exclaimed Kaylee, “for letting us be partners.”

d.      “Let’s get busy,” Shanna suggested, “Because we have so much to do.”

Constructed response

Read the passage below. Complete the graphic organizer to identify one example of each kind of figurative language, jargon, dialect and slang, and then explain the meaning of each.

From:  The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain.

http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/7/1/0/7102//7102-h/7102-h.htm

            We shot a water-fowl now and then that got up too early in the morning or didn’t go to bed early enough in the evening. Take it all round, we lived pretty high.

            The fifth night below St. Louis we had a big storm after midnight, with a power of thunder and lightening, and the rain poured down in a solid sheet. We stayed in the wigwam and let the raft take care of itself. When the lightening glared out we could see a big straight river ahead, and high, rocky bluffs on both sides. By and by says I, “Hel-LO, Jim, looky yonder!” It was a steamboat that had killed herself on a rock. We was drifting straight down for her. The lightning showed her very distinct. She was leaning over, with part of her upper deck above water, and you could see every little chimbly-guy clean and clear, and a chair by the big bell, with an old slouch hat hanging on the back of it, when the flashes come.

            Well, it being away in the night and stormy, and all so mysterious-like, I felt just the way any other boy would a felt when I see that wreck laying there so mournful and lonesome in the middle of the river. I wanted to get aboard of her and slink around a little, and see what there was there. So I says:

            “Le’s land on her, Jim.”

            But Jim was dead against it at first.