The Devil's Arithmetic
Second Quarter Cumulative Assessment
Here's What You've Done to Prepare...Here's What You Need to Review:
Test Topics
Historical Fiction Elements
*You read this informational writing about the genre historical fiction.
*You took a quiz on those elements. That quiz has been returned to you.
*You provided examples of historical fiction elements on your bookmark.
Thursday
Today students were provided a preview of tomorrow's reading test.
Point of View/Narrator
*You used this guide to complete your bookmark. The guide explains the difference between first-person and
third-person point of view.
Vocabulary/Vocabulary in Context
*You completed a vocabulary in context practice activity.
*You practiced this skill again on this assignment for Chapter 6-7.
*You also took a short assessment. This quiz has been returned to you.
*You also participated in an discussion of these two terms presented on the overhead.
*I also filled the board with terms to describe characters from our novel when we looked closely at Fayge.
*I have taken the following terms for use on the assessment:
Figures of Speech (Similes, Metaphors, Personification, Hyperbole)
*You completed this figure of speech practice.
*Can you find two similes on page 139?
*Can you find personification on page 141?
*Can you find the metaphor on page 143?
Characterization (How does the author reveal the character?)
*You used the author's characterization to complete character descriptions.
*You looked at how the author presented Fayge to us in the book with this spotlight.
*You also completed a writing piece describing the author's characterization of Fayge
*You're also in the process of creating a characterization piece about Rivka.
Unit Themes (How are they connected?)
*Do you know theme from The Outsiders?
*Do you know this theme from this unit? Your "brick in the wall" symbolized the theme.
*How are our two themes from this year similar?
Sentence Structure
*You should have several reference sheets about simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences.
Pronoun Chart
*You will need to identify pronouns as subjects, objects, or possessives. What is the difference between a subject and an object pronoun?
Historical Fiction Elements
*You read this informational writing about the genre historical fiction.
*You took a quiz on those elements. That quiz has been returned to you.
*You provided examples of historical fiction elements on your bookmark.
Thursday
Today students were provided a preview of tomorrow's reading test.
Point of View/Narrator
*You used this guide to complete your bookmark. The guide explains the difference between first-person and
third-person point of view.
Vocabulary/Vocabulary in Context
*You completed a vocabulary in context practice activity.
*You practiced this skill again on this assignment for Chapter 6-7.
*You also took a short assessment. This quiz has been returned to you.
*You also participated in an discussion of these two terms presented on the overhead.
*I also filled the board with terms to describe characters from our novel when we looked closely at Fayge.
*I have taken the following terms for use on the assessment:
Figures of Speech (Similes, Metaphors, Personification, Hyperbole)
*You completed this figure of speech practice.
*Can you find two similes on page 139?
*Can you find personification on page 141?
*Can you find the metaphor on page 143?
Characterization (How does the author reveal the character?)
*You used the author's characterization to complete character descriptions.
*You looked at how the author presented Fayge to us in the book with this spotlight.
*You also completed a writing piece describing the author's characterization of Fayge
*You're also in the process of creating a characterization piece about Rivka.
Unit Themes (How are they connected?)
*Do you know theme from The Outsiders?
*Do you know this theme from this unit? Your "brick in the wall" symbolized the theme.
*How are our two themes from this year similar?
Sentence Structure
*You should have several reference sheets about simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences.
Pronoun Chart
*You will need to identify pronouns as subjects, objects, or possessives. What is the difference between a subject and an object pronoun?