English 9



Unit 2 Simplified Test Please complete the test questions below by typing your response on this document and submit to dropbox in Unit 2 Lesson 10.Short Answer:Answer 3 of the following questions in a 2-3 sentence response. Use complete sentences. Put your answer below the question. Add more spaces if needed. (5 points each)Read the following passage from Of Wolves and Men.What is the author saying about the wolf in this paragraph?Your Answer: Name 3 text features you learned about in unit 2. Then briefly explain the purpose for text features in nonfiction writing.You’re Answer:“The Deadliest Tsunami in History” is a news article, while “Orphans Give Indian Couple Will to Live” is a feature article. Explain the difference in the way the information is presented in these two articles.Your Answer: Give an example of a metaphor, simile, and personification from the poems we read in this unit. Copy the three examples into your test and correctly label it as metaphor, simile, or personification.Your Answer: center182880Keep Scrolling Question 5 is on the next page!4000020000Keep Scrolling Question 5 is on the next page!8839205080Read the excerpt from “The Deadliest Tsunami in History?” and look at the text feature below: What does this text feature show and how does it relate to what is being discussed in the article?Your Answer: Vocabulary:Review the 5 vocabulary words below along with their definition and part of speech and then select 2 words to use correctly in a sentence. The sentence should demonstrate that you understand the definition and are using it correctly according to its part of speech. (5 points each)Example: devastated means overwhelmed by sadness (verb). A sentence using the word devastated correctly: She was devastated by the sudden death of her favorite uncle.Vocabulary Words:Reminiscent: tending to remind one of somethingMagnitude: the great size or extent of somethingDebris: scattered pieces of waste or remains Millennia: a period of a thousand yearsMinutely: with great attention to detail; meticulouslyWrite your 2 sentences with the vocabulary word below: Short Essay (25 points)Copy a passage from a poem or text from unit 2 that has a strong literary image (not an actual picture or drawing from the reading- think IMAGERY: language that appeals to the 5 senses). You can pick from one of the texts below. from Of Wolves and Men by Barry Holstun Lopez"Birches" by Robert Frost"Haiku" by Kaga no Chiyo"Haiku" by Basho"Spring is like a perhaps hand" by E.E. Cummingsfrom An Inconvenient Truth by Al Gore"The Deadliest Tsunami in History?" by National Geographic News"Orphans Give Indian Couple Will to Live; 2004 Tsunami Killed Their Son, Two Daughters" by Shaikh Azizur Rahman"Wave" by Dale WiselyWhy is this image memorable? How does the author use vivid descriptive details to help the reader visualize what is being described? How does this image contribute to the main idea of the text? Please use specific details from the text to support your answer. Fill out the Map below and then use the Map to write your Final Draft.752475281940Paragraph 1 / Introduction: Start by copying the quote containing imagery you have selected. State the title of the work and author the image came from. Explain what is happening or being described in this particular passage (1-3 sentences)Write your Introduction here:00Paragraph 1 / Introduction: Start by copying the quote containing imagery you have selected. State the title of the work and author the image came from. Explain what is happening or being described in this particular passage (1-3 sentences)Write your Introduction here:Map-161925304800Paragraph 2 / Body ParagraphTopic #1: Why is this image memorable? (1-2 sentences) [Image does not mean picture in text. It means the mental image you saw from reading the author’s description.]Write your 1-2 sentences here:Topic #2: How does the author use vivid descriptive details to help the reader visualize what is being described? Use Textual Evidence to support your ideas here. (1-2 sentences)Write your 1-2 sentences here:Topic #3: How does this image contribute to the main idea of the text? Use Textual Evidence to support your ideas here. (1-2 sentences)Write your 1-2 sentences here:00Paragraph 2 / Body ParagraphTopic #1: Why is this image memorable? (1-2 sentences) [Image does not mean picture in text. It means the mental image you saw from reading the author’s description.]Write your 1-2 sentences here:Topic #2: How does the author use vivid descriptive details to help the reader visualize what is being described? Use Textual Evidence to support your ideas here. (1-2 sentences)Write your 1-2 sentences here:Topic #3: How does this image contribute to the main idea of the text? Use Textual Evidence to support your ideas here. (1-2 sentences)Write your 1-2 sentences here:-209550332740Conclusion: Restate the main idea of what you discussed in your essay above and how or why imagery can be an important technique in author’s writing. (1-2 sentences)Write your Conclusion here:00Conclusion: Restate the main idea of what you discussed in your essay above and how or why imagery can be an important technique in author’s writing. (1-2 sentences)Write your Conclusion here:Write your Final Draft essay below: (Use what you have written in the Map above to write your Final Draft. The Final Draft should be 3 paragraphs long.) ................
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