Item

Scoring Guide

From the following list of tasks correctly organize a sequence of events:

Eat Lunch

Go Home

Go to Bed

Go To School

Eat Breakfast

Get out of Bed

Prepare for bed

Eat Dinner

(Organize a sequence)

Students will properly sequence in the following manner:

Get Out of Bed

Eat Breakfast

Go to School

Eat Lunch

Go Home

Eat Dinner

Prepare for Bed

Go to Bed.

4 points – All tasks given in sequence

3 points – 1 task out of sequence

2 points – 2 tasks out of sequence

1 point – 3 tasks out of sequence

0 points – 4 or more tasks out of sequence

(Identify Author’s purpose)

An author of a non-fiction text is writing a book about how to put together an airplane. Which of the following answers correctly identifies the author’s purpose for writing this book:

a.       To persuade

b.      To entertain

c.       To inform the reader

d.      To show pretty pictures 

(Read non-fiction to answer questions)

Read the following passage and answer the questions.

By the early 1900’s people were using all kinds of new things.  They had drinking straws, chewing gum, zippers, safety pins, fountain pens, postcards and even home sewing machines.  In 1903 the Wright Brothers were flying and Harley Davidson was making motorcycles.

What things were being used in 1900?

1. airplanes
2. safety pins
3. computers
4. velcro

The correct answer is C

Correct answer B

Item

Scoring Guide

The following items were listed in a newspaper advertisement. Formulate one key word, which would describe all these items.

JEANS        

SHIRTS      

SHOES       

DRESSES   

Formulate one question you would like to ask about one the words above.

Any reasonable answer (or synonym ) accepted., such as:

Clothes

Apparel

Stuff to Wear

Protection

Any reasonable question accepted.

Item

Scoring Guide

Look at the following Table of Contents below.  On what page would you find information about prairie grass?

What does the prairie look like? ………..page 6

Why did people go to the prairie?………page 8

Did people have coolers?……………….page 10

Did people get lost on the prairie? ……..page 11

Correct answer page 6

Item

Scoring Guide

Cause and effect

Choose an item that we have talked about from the past and explain how it has changed in the present.  Make sure and tell how and why you think it has changed.

Draw conclusions

Tell why you think that the item you chose is better now than it was in the past?

Compare

Choose one Venn Diagram from your journal.  State three ways that the past is the same as the present.

Contrast

Using the same Venn Diagram, state three ways that the past is different from the present.

3 points – past and present are mentioned with reason given.

2 points – past and present are mentioned with not reason given.

1 point – past or present is mentioned

0 – not attempted

1 point – Gave reasonable answer

0 point – no sense was made

3 points – three similarities are given

2 points – two similarities are given

1 point – one similarity is given

0 points – no similarities given

3 points – three differences are listed

2 points – two differences are listed

1 point – one difference is listed

0 points – no differences are listed

Student Prompt

Presenting The Information:

     The time has come to present your information to the President. Before we can see the President we must make our presentation.  Since the President does not have a lot of time, you will need to choose just one of the three key words or categories you have researched.  You should re-read all of your journal entries and then choose one area to use in creating your presentation.

The presentation will have two parts.  First you will need to fold your 12 X 17 paper into thirds.  Place a title for each section - the past, the present and the future.  Now pick one item and draw what it was like in the past, what it is like now in the present, and how you think it will look in the future. 

After you have finished the illustrations, you are ready for part two.  Under each illustration, write a paragraph about each item using the information you found in the text.  Be sure that your paragraph has a main idea and supporting details which describe the key word and tell how and why it has changed.

Since we collected our information from non-fiction text, you must display the author and title of your resources.

Scoring Guide

Criteria

3

2

1

Retell main ideas and important details

(Retell main ideas and important details)

Student clearly states the main idea of chosen key word or category with three supporting details for each of the three time periods with few mistakes.

Student adequately states the main idea and supporting ideas with some errors in clarity in the three time periods with few mistakes.

Student states some of the main idea and supporting ideas and/or has left out one or more of the time periods with many mistakes.

Informally give credit for others’ ideas, images and information found in various resources

(Informally give credit for others’ ideas, images and information found in various resources.

Student clearly gives credit for others’ information found on their display

Students adequately gives credit for others’ information found on their display

Student gives no credit for others’ information found on their display

Work is neat and well organized

Work is neatly organized with few errors.

Work is neat but not organized or has many errors.

Work is not neatly organized.

Shows sequence of events

The past, present and future are in sequential order.

Two of the three time periods are in order.

Time periods are not in order.