Open Up - Grade 4 - ELA - Module 3 - End of Unit 1 Assessment

Which set of words from “Victory at Yorktown and Peace” are opposites of each other? (RI.4.4)

• hopeless, rescue
• efforts, hopeless
• rescue, war
• war, peace

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RI.4.4

Part A: Which sentence states the main idea of “Victory at Yorktown and Peace”? Underline the best answer. (RI.4.2)

• A country needs a big army to be independent.
• The biggest army always wins.
• Even when a situation looks hopeless, there is a still a chance with help from friends.
• If you have been defeated lots of times, you will never win.

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RI.4.2

Part B: Which detail from the text best supports the correct answer to A? Underline the best answer. (RI.4.1, RI.4.2)

• “The situation there seemed hopeless. Then the French came to the rescue.”
• “For the first time in the war, Washington had a larger military force than the British.”
• “The new nation had been tested on the battlefield.”
• “In the Carolinas and Virginia, British General Charles Cornwallis defeated the Americans in one battle after another.”

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RI.4.2

Part A: How would you describe the structure of this text? Underline the best answer. (RI.4.5)

• chronology
• comparison
• cause/effect
• problem/solution

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RI.4.5

Part B: Which clues in the text help you recognize the structure? (RI.4.1, RI.4.5)

• uses words like cause, effect, result of, due to
• discusses similarities and differences
• gives events in order
• solves a problem

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RI.4.5

RI.4.1

Summarize the text in the space below. (RI.4.1, RI.4.2)

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RI.4.2

RI.4.1

A student wrote a paragraph about some of the causes of the Revolutionary War. She needs help to edit it. Read the paragraph below and answer the questions that follow.In the 1770s, America was a group of 13 colonies. Ruled by Great Britain. Patriots were colonists who wanted to break away from Great Britain and set up their own government with their own laws. Patriots believed it was unfair that they paid British taxes and had to follow British laws but were not allowed to vote in the British government and they believed America should become its own country and rule itself.Part A: Underline the run-on sentence in the piece. Then add the period and capital letters needed to divide the run-on into two or more complete sentences.Part B: Bold the fragment in the piece and rewrite it as a complete sentence on the lines below. (L.4.1f):

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L.4.1.f

A student wrote a paragraph about some of the causes of the Revolutionary War. She needs help to edit it. Read the paragraph below and answer the questions that follow.In the 1770s, America was a group of 13 colonies. Ruled by Great Britain. Patriots were colonists who wanted to break away from Great Britain and set up their own government with their own laws. Patriots believed it was unfair that they paid British taxes and had to follow British laws but were not allowed to vote in the British government and they believed America should become its own country and rule itself.Part B: Bold the fragment in the piece and rewrite it as a complete sentence on the lines below. (L.4.1f):

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L.4.1.f