Unit 1: What's So Funny, Mr. Scieszka?
Authored by Jill Jansen
English
6th Grade
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This quiz focuses on reading comprehension and language arts skills through the analysis of Jon Scieszka's autobiographical text "What's So Funny, Mr. Scieszka?" The content is appropriate for 6th grade students and assesses multiple literacy competencies including literary device identification, grammar and usage correction, vocabulary development, and reading comprehension strategies. Students need to demonstrate understanding of figurative language such as personification and metaphor, apply knowledge of pronoun-antecedent agreement and subject-verb agreement, and interpret context clues to determine word meanings. The quiz requires students to analyze author's purpose, make inferences about character development, understand text structure and organization, and comprehend both literal and figurative language within the narrative context. Created by Jill Jansen, an English teacher in the US who teaches grade 6. This comprehensive assessment serves multiple instructional purposes and can be effectively used as a summative unit assessment, homework assignment, or review activity following close reading of the Scieszka text. The quiz supports both formative and summative assessment practices by allowing teachers to gauge student mastery of essential reading and language skills while engaging students with age-appropriate, humorous content that connects to their own school experiences. The questions align with Common Core State Standards including CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.6.1 for citing textual evidence, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.6.4 for determining word meanings, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.6.6 for explaining author's purpose, and CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.6.1 for demonstrating command of standard English grammar and usage, making it an excellent tool for standards-based instruction and assessment.
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Which of these sentences shows personification?
The voice flew across the room and nailed me to the back of my seat.
What’s so funny, Mr. Scieska?
And nine times out of ten, nine-nine times out of a hundred, I would have used one of those answers.
That day I reached a life-choice fork in the road.
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CCSS.L.6.5A
CCSS.RL.6.4
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 5 pts
Choose the phrase that corrects the underlined section in the sentence below.
Tim K. was the funniest boy I knew, but I wish him had waited to tell us the joke.
but I wish she had waited to tell us the joke.
but I wish he had waited to tell me the joke.
but I wish we had waited to tell you the joke.
Correct as is
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CCSS.L.3.2C
CCSS.L.4.2B
CCSS.L.6.3A
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 5 pts
Choose the phrase that corrects the underlined section in the sentence below. Be sure to read through this carefully!
The teacher made it clear that anyone caught laughing they going to be sent home.
shouldn't be going to be sent home.
was going to be sent home.
am going to be sent home.
Correct as is
Tags
CCSS.L.3.2C
CCSS.L.4.2B
CCSS.L.6.3A
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 5 pts
How does the organization of paragraphs 13-16 contribute to the selection?
A sense of suspense is built as Jon begins to tell his joke.
Jon learns to take a new path.
It gives a very detailed description of Jon.
It gives an argument to prove that Jon made the right decision.
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CCSS.RI.6.5
CCSS.RL.6.5
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 5 pts
The word glorious means “great praise or honor.” What does glorious mean as it is used in paragraph 25?
I don’t remember the grade I got in fifth-grade religion class. But I do remember the laugh I got. It was huge. It was the whole class (except Sister Margaret Mary). It was out of control hysterical. It was glorious!. And it set me on my lifelong path of answering that classic question, “ What’s so funny, Mr Sciezka?”
confusing
magnificent
frustrating
angry
Tags
CCSS.L.3.1A
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
The author wrote this selection most likely to...
Inform readers about how to be funny.
Persuade the reader to be honest with teachers.
Entertain readers with a humorous story from his childhood.
Provide readers with evidence about why schools need strict rules.
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CCSS.RI.6.6
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Which of the following words means to make an expression of regret or a request for forgiveness.
tearful
apology
joyful
terrible
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CCSS.L.3.1A
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