Benchmark Review Lesson Spring 2015
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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
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