Summative Assessment

A.  Please complete the following chart by either filling in the missing cause or the missing effect.

                                                CAUSE                                                                  EFFECT

1. Matt let Ben come into the cabin.                                     1.

2.                                                                                                     2.  Matt was invited to the  Indians’ feast.

3.  Matt found Attean’s dog caught in a trap.                        3.

B.  Compare and contrast

1. Describe two similarities and two differences between Matt and Attean. Include information from the story to support your answer.

2. Compare and contrast the relationship between Attean’s dog and Matt from the time they first met until the end of the book. Use information from the story to support your answer.

C.  Author’s purpose

1. What was the author’s purpose for writing this book?  What message was the author trying to convey through her writing?

D.  Making inferences and drawing conclusions:

1. “The way the stew disappeared, the stranger couldn’t have eaten a meal for a good while.”

2. What experiences most likely influenced Matt? Include two details from the selection in your answer.

3. Based on the information in the story, what do you think Matt will do now that his family is back with him?

4. What do you think Matt will do the next time he meets another Indian? Use information from the story to support your prediction.

5. How did Elizabeth George Speare’s feelings about Indians compare to Ms. Cleary’s feelings about Indians? Include one detail from The Sign of the Beaver and one detail from the Woodlands poem to support your answer.

E.  Drawing conclusions

Now that you have read The Sign of the Beaver , how could the new knowledge you acquired help you survive in the wilderness? Include four details from the selection in your answer.

F.  Explain the difference between a glossary and an index. 

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G.  Story Elements:

     Circle the correct answer

1.  Act 1

     Scene 1

    Curtain rises to a backdrop with a painted scene of a forest.

    Narrator:  A group of Indians enter the forest searching for the animals.

     What is this an example of?

     A.  fiction                  B.  Poetry              C.  Drama

2.  The Calling

     As swiftly as the breeze can carry

     Salt, sand and sea scents

     Now remembered barely

     Oceans, shores contentments

     What is this an example of?

      A.  fiction                  B.  Poetry              C.  Drama

3.  And truly she alone of all in that village, saw in those things the sweet yet awesome face of the Invisible Being.

     What is this an example of?

      A.  fiction                  B.  Poetry              C.  Drama

H.  Narrative Writing

Describe a family celebration you have participated in or observed.  Be sure to sequence the events of the celebration, and use correct verb tense and adjectives.