"Women in Aviation"
Authored by Alexis Goforth
English
7th Grade
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This quiz focuses on reading comprehension and literary analysis of an informational text about women in aviation history, specifically examining the lives and achievements of pioneering female pilots like Harriet Quimby and Bessie Coleman. Designed for 7th grade students, the quiz assesses multiple critical reading skills including identifying author's purpose, analyzing historical context, making inferences about social attitudes, and understanding vocabulary in context. Students need strong comprehension abilities to extract explicit and implicit information from the text, analytical thinking skills to understand the significance of historical quotes and their social implications, and vocabulary knowledge to determine word meanings using context clues. The questions require students to synthesize information about the intersection of gender, race, and aviation history in early 20th century America, demonstrating their ability to analyze how social barriers affected these groundbreaking women. Created by Alexis Goforth, an English teacher in the US who teaches grade 7. This quiz serves as an excellent tool for assessing students' comprehension of biographical and historical informational texts while building their understanding of social justice themes and historical context. Teachers can implement this quiz as a formative assessment following a close reading of the McKissack text, use it for homework to reinforce key concepts about women's roles in early aviation, or incorporate it into review sessions before summative assessments on biographical literature. The quiz effectively supports instruction by combining literal comprehension questions with higher-order thinking tasks that require students to analyze textual evidence and make connections between historical events and social attitudes. This assessment aligns with Common Core standards RL.7.1 for citing textual evidence, RL.7.4 for determining word meanings, and RI.7.6 for determining author's purpose and point of view in informational texts.
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Authors, Patricia and Fredrick McKissack, are famous for writing over 100 biographies and non-fiction books about the achievements of:
Men
Women
African Americans
Latino Americans
Tags
CCSS.RI.11-12.9
CCSS.RI.9-10.9
CCSS.RL.11-12.9
CCSS.RL.9-10.9
CCSS.RL.K.6
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Who was the focus of the informational text, “Women in Aviation”?
Female sailors
Female athletes
Female pilots
Female chefs/cooks
Tags
CCSS.RI.5.5
CCSS.RI.6.5
CCSS.RI.7.5
CCSS.RI.8.5
CCSS.RI.9-10.5
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
The informational text is written about women in aviation during which time period?
Early 1700s
Early 1800s
Early 1900s
Early 2000s
Tags
CCSS.RI.5.5
CCSS.RI.6.5
CCSS.RI.7.5
CCSS.RI.8.5
CCSS.RI.4.5
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What is the author's purpose for writing this text?
To inform
To persuade
To entertain
To express thoughts or feelings
Tags
CCSS.RI.6.6
CCSS.RI.7.6
CCSS.RI.7.9
CCSS.RI.8.9
CCSS.RL.7.6
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
How were women viewed in society during the early 1900s?
Well-respected and admired
Inferior to white men
Superior to white men
Everyone was equal
Tags
CCSS.RL.7.9
CCSS.RL.8.9
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Why were Harriet Quimby’s infamous words so significant during this time period? "Flying is easier than voting."
Voting was a complicated process
No one cared enough to vote
Women were not allowed to vote
Only women who were 65 and older could vote
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CCSS.RL.2.6
CCSS.RL.8.3
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Bessie Coleman was the first African American woman to ___________________.
earn a pilot's license
perform open heart surgery
open a school for blind students
to sail around the world
Tags
CCSS.RI.7.2
CCSS.RL.7.2
CCSS.RI.6.2
CCSS.RL.6.2
CCSS.RL.7.1
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