"My Favorite Chaperone" Practice Assessment

The STEAL method of characterization is used with

• direct characterization

• indirect characterization

• static characterization

• dynamic characterization

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.W.8.3B

Which is NOT a STEAL method of characterization?

• thoughts and feelings

• emotions

• speech

• actions

In the following excerpt, which element of STEAL is used to learn that Maya is hopeless about getting to go to the dance?

"And even after I took one, I don't know why I didn't throw it away. Maybe I just couldn't give up hope. It's like that in America. It's a place where things can change for people, and many people always seem to have hope. At least that's how it seems to me. Maybe I was beginning to think this way, to, although my hope was very small" (Okimoto 9).

• Looks

• Actions

• Thoughts

• Speech

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.8.3

In the following excerpt, which element of STEAL is used to inform the reader that Nurzhan had been a fight?

"He looked like a rabbit caught in a trap. He had scrapes on his hands and on his cheek, and his eyes were puffed up" (Okimoto10).

• Speech

• Thoughts and feelings

• Looks

• Actions

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.W.8.9A

The exposition of the story includes all of the following EXCEPT

• Maya and her family move to America

• Maya's aunt replies to an add in a dating magazine

• Nurzhan gets into a fight at his new school

• Maya is at her new school in America

The beginning of a narrative where setting and important background information is given

• rising action

• climax

• inciting incident

• exposition

The inciting incident is when

• Nurzhan gets into a fight at school

• Maya is fearful that Papa will not sign the permission form for the school dance

• Papa is angry with Maya for rough-housing with two boys at school

• Mama is angry at Maya for not preventing Nurzhan from fighting at school

The inciting incident is

• the moment of highest tension in a story

• the turning point of a story

• the event that begins the major conflict in a story

• the incident closest to the middle of the story

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

Falling action is when

• events in a story begin to point towards the resolution of the major conflict

• the main characters fall into a trap

• the plot line ends

• the conflict is brought to a peaceful ending for all

Mama giving Maya her bracelet to wear to the dance is included in which portion of the story?

• climax

• rising action

• falling action

• resolution