Identity Theft by Gary Soto
Authored by Mbula Ratzlaff
English
6th - 7th Grade
CCSS covered
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This quiz focuses on English Language Arts comprehension and vocabulary development for Gary Soto's short story "Identity Theft," targeting 6th to 7th grade students. The assessment combines essential vocabulary acquisition with reading comprehension skills, requiring students to demonstrate their understanding of context clues, literary devices, and character development. Students need strong foundational skills in determining word meanings through context, analyzing character motivations and changes throughout a narrative, identifying point of view, and recognizing literary concepts such as irony and theme. The vocabulary questions test students' ability to match sophisticated terms like "indifference," "pondered," "surmised," and "spitefully" with their correct definitions, while the comprehension questions require higher-order thinking skills to analyze character relationships, predict outcomes, and identify the story's deeper meaning about identity and social dynamics. Created by Mbula Ratzlaff, an English teacher in the US who teaches grades 6 and 7. This quiz serves as an excellent comprehensive assessment tool that can be utilized for multiple instructional purposes throughout a literature unit. Teachers can deploy this as a formative assessment to gauge student understanding before moving to more complex analysis, use it as homework to reinforce vocabulary retention and reading comprehension skills, or implement it as a review activity before summative assessments. The quiz effectively supports classroom instruction by combining vocabulary development with literary analysis, helping students build the foundational skills necessary for more advanced textual analysis. This assessment aligns with Common Core standards RL.6.1, RL.6.3, RL.6.6, RL.7.1, RL.7.3, and RL.7.6, which focus on citing textual evidence, analyzing character development, and determining point of view, while also supporting vocabulary standards L.6.4 and L.7.4 for determining word meanings in context.
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
20 sec • Ungraded
How excited are you that it is FRIYAY?
PUMPED!
Excited.
Meh.
Ugh.
Tags
CCSS.RL.8.3
CCSS.RL.2.6
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Indifference means...
a lack of interest or concern
considered carefully; thought over
was irritated and angry
tell someone about a secret or private matter while trusting them not to repeat it to others
Tags
CCSS.RI.6.4
CCSS.RI.7.4
CCSS.RL.6.4
CCSS.RL.7.4
CCSS.RL.5.4
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Pondered means...
a lack of interest or concern
considered carefully; thought over
was irritated and angry
tell someone about a secret or private matter while trusting them not to repeat it to others
Tags
CCSS.RI.6.4
CCSS.RI.7.4
CCSS.RL.6.4
CCSS.RL.7.4
CCSS.RL.8.4
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Fumed means...
a lack of interest or concern
considered carefully; thought over
was irritated and angry
tell someone about a secret or private matter while trusting them not to repeat it to others
Tags
CCSS.RI.6.4
CCSS.RI.7.4
CCSS.RL.6.4
CCSS.RL.7.4
CCSS.RI.5.4
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Confided means...
a lack of interest or concern
considered carefully; thought over
was irritated and angry
tell someone about a secret or private matter while trusting them not to repeat it to others
Tags
CCSS.RI.6.4
CCSS.RI.7.4
CCSS.RL.6.4
CCSS.RL.7.4
CCSS.RL.5.1
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Surmised means...
guessed
commonly practiced; doing or acting by habit
going along with; accompanying
to do something with bad intentions; being mean on purpose
a copy that is represented as the original
Tags
CCSS.RI.6.4
CCSS.RI.7.4
CCSS.RL.6.4
CCSS.RL.7.4
CCSS.RL.8.4
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Habitually means...
guessed
commonly practiced; doing or acting by habit
going along with; accompanying
to do something with bad intentions; being mean on purpose
a copy that is represented as the original
Tags
CCSS.RI.6.4
CCSS.RI.7.4
CCSS.RL.6.4
CCSS.RL.7.4
CCSS.RL.5.4
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