Taking a Literary Quiz

Vocabulary--20%
The student will know the questions in this part before he or she sees the quiz--the student should be prepared! Typically, the quiz will be matching synonyms.   The student will have opportunity in class to exercise and review the vocabulary words, but many students will also require some homework study.  The state mandates that the student know the meanings of words encountered frequently in grade-level reading and oral language (R.WS.00.09).  The state also mandates that the student learn the meaning of new words (R.WS.00.10). 

Multiple choice--25%
Five straight questions to determine basic understanding of the story and ability to recall. 

Provide Examples--15%
This section of the quiz requires the student to retell up to three events from the text using their own words or phrasing (R.CM.00.02).  Typically, the type of examples asked for require the student to discuss setting, characters, and events in the narrative text (R.NT.00.03). 

Choose and Defend--15%
Students will begin to make connections between the text and themselves.  Using a written response, they will explain these connections between knowledge that they already possess and ideas in text (R.CM.00.01)

Written Response--25% Rubric for These Essays

Students will discuss setting, characters, and events in narrative text (R.NT.00.03). 

Students will retell up to three events from familiar text using their own words or phrasing (R.CM.00.02). 

Students will begin to make connections between the text and themselves.  Using a written response, they will explain these connections between knowledge that they already posses and ideas in text (R.CM.00.01). 

Students will respond to the texts they read.  Sometimes they will respond to individual texts, and sometimes they will respond by comparing and contrasting different texts.  They will find evidence, discuss, and write.  Their responses will reflect on the reading, make meaning, and make connections.  (R.NT.00.05).