Of Mice and Men Skills Review 2021

Of Mice and Men Skills Review 2021

​Skills on the Summative Exam

• ​Paraphrasing

• ​Inferencing

• ​Theme

• ​Tone and Mood

• ​Vocab (using context clues)

​Paraphrasing

• ​Paraphrasing, or restating ideas in your own words.

  Why paraphrase?

  • ​helps you check your understanding of what you hear and read

  • ​helps you be less repetitive when quoting evidence in an essay/paragraph

Multiple Choice

To help yourself paraphrase a text, identify the main idea of the passage.

Read this passage:

Thanks to the efforts of volunteers, people in Sauri, Kenya, have much better lives today than in years past. Their hospital now has a generator and running water, and it provides free medications for diseases that are widespread in the community. Cases of malaria have declined as people have been given mosquito nets for beds.

What is the main idea?

• Their hospital now has a generator and running water.

• It provides free medications for diseases.

• People in Sauri have much better lives than in years past.

• Cases of malaria have declined.

Multiple Choice

A friend tells you, "I am absolutely livid. Jamie shared confidential information with Caroline!"

You respond, "So, you're saying that you're angry that Jamie told Caroline your secret?"

When you retell information in your own words, you are __________________.

• Summarizing

• Paraphrasing

• Quoting

Multiple Choice

Read the passage below and decide which sentence best restates the ideas presented:

"Although television was not widely used in American homes until the 1950s, small, experimental television images were broadcast in the 1920s."

• Television was not widely used in American homes until the 1950s.

• Television became popular in the 1950s, but the first televisions were used thirty years earlier.

• Television became popular in the 1920s, and again in the 1950s.

Multiple Choice

A paraphrase is more than a summary of a text's main ideas—it restates each key idea in about the same number of words. Is this passage an accurate paraphrase that helps clarify the meaning of the original text? Select Yes or No.

Original Text:

During the Industrial Revolution, working-class families took for granted that their children would need to be employed to help support the family.

Paraphrase:

At the time of the Industrial Revolution, some children wanted to work in factories.

• Yes

• No

Tone and Mood

The tone of a passage is the attitude of the author (or character speaking) towards the topic being discussed.

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​Possible tones: anxious, frustrated, detached, serious, hopeful, amused

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​The mood of a passage is the feeling created in the reader by the topic being discussed.

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​Possible moods: gloomy, nostalgic, tense, light-hearted, sorrowful

​Finding Tone

• ​Tone is not directly stated.

• ​You must read between the lines to see what the author's or speaker's attitude on the subject is.

• ​Tone can be revealed through...

  • ​Dialogue between characters

  • ​Descriptions

  • ​Author's word choice

  • ​The themes that emerge through the story

Multiple Choice

Which passage below has the most critical tone?

• On the train, the man slowly clipped his fingernails. He focused on the task, beginning with his pinky finger and finishing with his thumb.

• On the train, the tired, old man began clipping his fingernails. He was trying to distract himself from his loneliness by focusing on this one small task, moving from pinky to thumb.

• The man—right in the middle of the crowded train—began to clip his long, yellow fingernails. He did it slowly, as if he didn't even care that a dozen other people could see and hear him.

• The man on the train clipped his fingernails. It took him 2 minutes and 8 seconds. He started on his pinky and finished with his thumb. When he was finished, he put the clippers back into his jacket pocket.

Multiple Choice

Which words and phrases best show the sentimental tone in the passage below?

I got out of the old car and took a few halting steps up the driveway. A cloud of warmth drifted out of the window and embraced me like a comforting hug. I knew that smell: fresh bread that Papa had just taken from the oven. I heard the familiar pitch of his whistle as he slowly stirred tomato soup on the stovetop. I ran to open the screen door because, now, I knew where I was. I was home.

• "warmth," "comforting hug" and "home"

• "car," "tomato soup" and "door"

• "old," "halting" and "out the window"

• "driveway," "screen door" and "slowly stirred"

Multiple Choice

Which word best describes the tone of the sentence below?

The stunning poem that opens this lovely collection is rich with imagery and language.

• admiring

• bitter

• sad

• hopeful

Multiple Choice

Which word best describes the tone of the passage below?

I never wanted to see that movie, but my annoying little sister kept pestering me. Eventually, her whining wore me down, and I gave in. But that waste of a movie really destroyed my Saturday.

• admiring

• bitter

• sad

• hopeful

Multiple Choice

Which words and phrases from the sentence below best shows you the tone?

That waste of a movie really destroyed my Saturday.

• "waste" and "destroyed"

• "movie" and "of a"

• "that" and "my"

• "really" and "Saturday"

Multiple Choice

Identify the mood of the following sentence:
She huddled in the corner, clutching her tattered blanket and shaking convulsively, as she feverishly searched the room for the unknown dangers that awaited her.

• fanciful
• suspenseful
• melancholy

Multiple Choice

What is the mood in the following sentence  “They looked at Martian hills that time had worn with a crushing pressure of years. They saw old cities, lost in their meadows, lying like children's delicate bones among the blowing lakes of grass.”  

• Gloomy
• Joyful
• Angry
• Confident

Theme

A theme of story is a message or lesson the author communicates through the story.

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Theme is rarely directed statement. It must be inferred from the story.​

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​Themes are never just one word. A theme statement is a sentence.

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​Ex. Instead of just "friendship," a theme could be "friendship can make any situation more manageable."

Multiple Choice

What is the main difference between THEME and MAIN IDEA. 

• Theme is a universal lesson and main idea is what a story is about.
• Theme is what a story is about and main idea is the universal lesson it teaches.
  

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is an example of THEME?

• Carry your laptops with two hands at all times.
• Cereal is the healthiest food you can eat.
• You can severely break your leg while crossing the street.
• Life is short; make the most of it.

Multiple Choice

Jim was stacking boxes at work.  There was a certain height he had to reach.  He stretched his body, but could not reach to place the final box at the top.  Bill happened to see Jim struggling and came to his rescue, since he was a foot taller.

• teamwork can accomplish a goal
• tall people are the best
• work hard to reach a goal
• people can be like boxes

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is the BEST statement of a theme?

• Cruelty.

• Cruelty is bad.

• Cruelty might be disguised as kindness.

• The cruelty of good people.

Making Inferences

“Inference” questions ask you to make a reasoned judgment about the passage that goes beyond the material on the page.

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An inference is an assumption you can make based on the information provided.

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Multiple Choice

"Cara sands the wood. Grandpa hums happily as he works on replacing the cracked piece" suggests...

• He is only good a repairing rocking chairs.
• He is enjoying his task.
• He has the tools needed to make repairs to the chair.

Multiple Choice

Tiffany held her breath as her teacher returned the math test the class had taken last week.  Tiffany had not studied very hard or long for the test, and she was worried about her grade.  Her teacher handed Tiffany her test.  Tiffany groaned and put her head down on her desk. The best inference we can make i that:

• Tiffany earned a bad grade on the test
• Tiffany received a good grade on the test
• Tiffany is tired
• Tiffany is angry at her teacher