Summative Assessment -Teacher

The first section of the summative assessment is a dialogue/script advertising the student’s imaginary city as a great place to visit and/or live. The script must:

§         Name and properly capitalize a total of nine businesses, schools, sport teams, and institutions

§         Include a slogan that uses alliteration for promoting the city

§         Use examples of correctly punctuated dialogue and a capital letter in the beginning of a quotation

§         Use apostrophe in possessives (both regular and irregular)

§         Use a proper adjective capitalize correctly

§         Include a description of the city that includes imagery and onomatopoeia

Students will turn in their completed scripts and “My City” Description Checklist from Lesson Five for a grade.

If time allows, students present their dialogues/scripts to the class-choosing a partner or partners to help them perform. In this way, teachers can add to this unit speaking and listening standards that must be addressed locally.

Part 2

Have students read literature rich in figurative language including simile, metaphor, personification, onomatopoeia, and alliteration, such as Jazz Fantasia by Carl Sandburg, The Clock Ticks by Eve Merriam, Ankylosaurus by Jack Prelutsky, or Hoops by Robert Burleigh. Students complete the following questions. You may need to provide more than one selection, or parts of selections. These titles are rich in figurative language, but are simply suggestions. Other works may be substituted.