Here is an example of what we are looking for on the written portion of
the test:
Unit 2, Week 1-
Explain the messages
that are presented in these passages.
Support your answer with clear text evidence from the passages.
Example of student response:
There was a different message presented in each
passage. In Help, Please! the message was you can’t expect a reward if you do
not help. An example from the passage
that supports this is found on page 61 in the fifth paragraph. The Raccoon, who is trying to pick apples for
a baked apple dessert, asks Bear to help her pick a juicy apple from the apple
tree. The Bear says, “I’d be glad to,
Raccoon, but I need to save my energy for my long winter nap.” Later, Bear watched hungrily as Raccoon and
Bee ate the delicious baked apple with honey. Bear and the other animals made
excuses for not helping, but they still wanted to eat the apple dessert. If you are not willing to help, you should
not expect to get anything.
In Visitors in the
Woods, the message was people should resect the animals that live in
nature. In this passage, people were
walking on a nature path, enjoying watching a deer and her fawn when a loud
family came along. An example from the
text that supports the theme is found on page 67, in the last paragraph. After telling the loud family to be quiet,
Gwen’s father tells the father and son that they are the visitors because it’s
the animals that live there. They should
walk quietly to be respectful of the animals.
