ELA 8 Common Assessment Review

ELA 8 Common Assessment Review

Are you ready??

"Do First Activity"

• What is your favorite part about Halloween?

• If you plan to dress up, who are you planning to be? Why?

• You will have 3 minutes to enter your response on the next slide.

Open Ended

What is your favorite part about Halloween?

If you plan to dress up, who will you be? Why?

Agenda

• "Do First"

• Agenda

• Announcements

• Signing of Camera Waiver Form

• Warm Passage Quiz Review

• "What's on the Common Assessment?"

• CA Review Practice

Announcements

• 10/29 Common Assessment Exam

• 11/3 All Missing Work Due

• 11/4 Report Cards Turned In

CA "Camera On" Promise

• During the CA Exam you will be required to have your camera turned on throughout the entire exam

• Failure to turn on your camera or to keep it on, could result in you being dismissed from the exam

Camera "On" Exemption Request

If you would like to be exempt from the camera "on" requirement, you must submit a form for approval. The link to this form will be posted in the Teams Chat. 

How Much Time Will I Have?

• You will have 50 minutes to read 2 passages and answer 20 MC questions.

• You will have 40 minutes to read a passage, plan, and write a literary analysis paragraph

How Will I Be Scored?

• 65% of your score will come from the MC questions.

• 35% of your score will come from the analysis paragraph. (Remember, other teachers from other campuses will score your analysis paragraphs! ex. If you are a student at East End, no teachers from East End can score your paragraphs. Keep this in mind as you write; be sure your punctuation and grammar are correct.) 

CFS for Multiple Choice

• Read the question twice

• Underline important information (key terms/phrases, paragraph/line numbers)

• Paraphrase what the question is asking

• Read all answer choices

• Remove any answer choices that are explicitly incorrect (aka don't answer the question)

• Select the BEST answer to the question at-hand

CFS for Literary Analysis Paragraph

• Use TS given

• 3 pieces of evidence from passage that supports TS

• Explain how your evidence supports your TS

• Combine evidence + how into fluid sentences

• Conclusion sentence = why was this info important?

• Include proper grammar, punctuation, and capitalization

CA Questions?

Open Classroom Discussion

Multiple Choice

How much time will you have on the CA to read 3 passages and answer 20 MC questions?

• 1 Hour 30 Minutes

• 40 Minutes

• 50 Minutes

Multiple Choice

How many passages are on the CA exam?

• 1

• 5

• 3

• 6

CA Review

Confessions of A Teenage Drama Queen

Read Excerpt & Answer Prompt

• Students complete an analysis paragraph about “Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen.”

  
  

• Read the passage carefully.

• Prompt: Then, in a well-written paragraph, analyze how the author uses literary elements to portray Ella’s complex attitude toward Lola’s decision to quit the play.

Analysis Paragraph

30 Minutes to plan , and write paragraph

Asynchronous Work

• Read LOTF Chapter 6-7

• Study notes for CA's On Thursday