Mid-Unit 1 Assessment: Analyze Point of View and Integrate

Part A: Which best describes Zitkala-Sa's point of view toward the other girls she encountered on her first day?

• They were friendly and playful

• They were dressed inapporpriately

• They were dressed very similar to her

• They were jusgemental and afriad

Part B: Which piece of evidence from the text best helps to convey the point of view form part A

• "These were Indian girls..."

• "...I felt like sinking itno the floor..."

• "I looked hard at the Indian girls..."

• "...who seemed not to care..."

Part A: Which best describes Zitkala-Sa's point of view towards the adults at the school?

• They were controlling and often cruel toward the children

• They were warm and care about the children

• They were friendly and playful toward the children

• They were firm and emotionally attched to the children

Which two of the following phrases from the text help convey the point of view from Part A

• "bell was tapped" (paragraph 3)

• "keenly watched" (paragraph 3)

• "dragged out" (paragraph 8)

• "tied fast" (paragraph 8)

• "comfort me" (paragraph 9)

The first day in the land of apples was a bitter-cold one; for the snow still covered the ground, and the trees were bare. A large bell rang for breakfast, its loud metallic voice crashing through the belfry overhead and into our sensitive ears. The annoying clatter of shoes on bare floors gave us no peace. The constant clash of harsh noises, with an undercurrent of many voices murmuring an unknown tongue, made a bedlam within which I was securely tied.

Describe Zitkala-Sa's point of view toward what she experienced in the first paragraph

Which ten words used by Zitkala-Sa in paragraph 1 have connotations that best convey that point of view? Write them below

"I felt cold blades of the scissors agaisnt my neck, and heard from them gnaw off one of my thick braids" (paragraph 9)

How do the connotations of the bolded phrase in the sentence above help convey Zitkala-Sa's point of view toward losing her hair

• They imply that the adults at the school chewed off her braids

• They imply that the room in the school was frigid and uncomfortable

• They imply that the cutting of her hair was violent and savage

• They imply that the adults gave her a new hairstyle to help her fit in

"Not a soul resasoned quielty with me, as my own mother used to do; for now I was only one of my little animals driven by a herder" (paragraph 9)

What type of figurative language is used by Zitkala-Sa in the bolded excerpt above?

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification

• Hyperbole

How does the bolded figurative language above help to convey Zitkala-Sa's point of view toward the reality of her life at school?

What are two other pieces of evidence from the text that also help to convey this point of view?

Add which paragraphs they come from