Benchmark Review

Lesson

Spring 2015

Bell Ringer (Respond on notebook

paper in complete sentences.)

What is your plan after you graduate high school? Where do

you see yourself in 10 years? How do you plan to achieve that

goal? Explain.

Score Breakdown

68 Multiple Choice Questions – 68 possible points

Short Answer #1 – Score x 3 – 9 possible points

Short Answer #2 – Score x 3 – 9 possible points

Essay – (Score 1 + Score 2) x 3 – 24 possible points

Total Possible Points: 111

REAL EOC: 92 (18 fewer MC questions!)

Positives

Strong writing MC Performance

Strong attempts at RATE

Essay structure has improved

Opportunities

Identifying relevant text evidence

Understanding reading MC questions

Elaboration

What is your why? (Respond

on same page as bell ringer)

Eric Thomas Video: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CCAQtwIwAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DM-1rDg_DL_Y&ei=Po_KVJyjPK-0sASb-YCYCA&usg=AFQjCNECJkOFVyE-l4jdkXh7LYTwweCYgw&bvm=bv.84607526,d.cWc

1) Short Answer Response: What message is Eric Thomas trying to convey? Be sure to use evidence from the video to support your response.

2) Personal Response: What is your why for wanting to succeed (in school, on the EOC, in life)? Explain.

TIME TO

COMMITT TO

CHANGE!!!

Let’s Get it!

Types of Short Answers

Rubric for Cross –Selection Responses

Scoring Time!

Benchmark Corrections

Short Answer #1

What message do you think the speaker in “Sunday Morning Early” and the narrator of “I Wish I Was a Poet” are trying to convey? Explain your answer and support it with evidence from both selections.

Fix It!

Review your response and Ms. Jones’ feedback

On a blank short answer box, rewrite the short answer response with the appropriate revisions

Class review

Let’s give it

a

score!!!

Short Answer #2

What is one similarity between the boy in “Jim at Bat” and Billy Crystal in “A Crystal-Clear Love Affair”? Explain your answer and support it with evidence from both selections.

Fix It!

Review your response and Ms. Jones’ feedback

On a blank short answer box, rewrite the short answer response with the appropriate revisions

Class review

Let’s give it

a

score!!!

Exit Ticket

Read “Don’t Quit”. How does the poem “Don’t Quit” support Eric Thomas’ message? Be sure to use evidence from BOTH selections to support your response.Video: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CCAQtwIwAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DM-1rDg_DL_Y&ei=Po_KVJyjPK-0sASb-YCYCA&usg=AFQjCNECJkOFVyE-l4jdkXh7LYTwweCYgw&bvm=bv.84607526,d.cWc

Reading the SelectionRead the passage as if you were not even taking a test

If you do not understand a passage at first, keep reading

Look at the big picture:

What is the main idea?

What is the author’s purpose?

What is the theme/message?

Questions

Read the questions

Reread the passage

Underline info that relates to the questions

Go back to the questions

Read all answer choices

Eliminate those that are obviously incorrect

Types of Multiple Choice Questions

1. Main Idea/Controlling Idea 6. Author’s Tone

2. Author’s Purpose 7. Theme/Message

3. Vocabulary 8. Summary

4. Conclusion & Inference 9. Supporting Detail

5. Text Structure

MAIN IDEA

Main idea MUST relate to ENTIRE passage

Re-read topic sentences

SIGNIFICANT DETAILS

Read question, then re-read passage

Underline the details the question is asking about

Sometimes the answers are NOT in the exact same words as in the selection

Pick the answer closest in meaning

VOCABULARYRead answer choices and PLUG them into the sentence

Eliminate answers that don’t make sense

Sometimes you need to re-read the paragraph

CONCLUSION AND INFERENCE

Author does not state idea directly

Consider various parts of passage together (as a whole)

Answer choice that refers to only one or two details is probably NOT correct

Most Missed Multiple Choice Questions

5.) 48% D – Correct Answer 13.) 57% B – Correct Answer

18% B 20% A

6.) 43% G – Correct Answer 16.) 45% F – Correct Answer

41% F 31% H

12.) 46% A – Correct Answer

17% B

Most Missed Multiple Choice Questions

17.) 38% C – Correct Answer 33.) 50% D – Correct Answer

30% A 22% A

18.) 53% F – Correct Answer 38.) 55% G – Correct Answer

31% G 27% F

32.) 50% H – Correct Answer

22% G