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WorksheetsEvaluating Moral Issues Review Day 1
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 11mins
Quarter 4 Goal: To _________ and ____________ what we read.
Mark the words that fill in the blanks.
enjoy
understand
analyze
evaluate
What is important topic or problem for debate or discussion? (spelling matters this time)
(a)
Morality
An important topic or problem for debate or discussion.
To determine how true or valuable something is.
The rightness or wrongness of an action.
A measure used to determine something's value and permissibility.
Mark all of the options that are author's purposes.
Entertain
Persuade
Evaluate
Inform
What is the meaning of the author's purpose "to inform?"
To determine how true or valuable something is.
To convince the readers to do or believe something.
To give the reader a good time.
To give the reader information.
What author's purpose means "to convince the readers to do or believe something?" (spelling matters this time)
(a)
What author's purpose means "to give the reader a good time?"
(a)
Passage: Butterflies are beautiful insects with an interesting life cycle. When they hatch from their eggs as caterpillars, they eat a lot of food so that they can grow and develop. When they are ready, they form a chrysalis in which they begin to change. When they come out of the chrysalis, they have become beautiful butterflies!
Question: What is the author's purpose for this passage?
Persuade
Inform
Entertain
Evaluate
Passage: You should consider spending more time reading for several reasons. The first is that when you spend more time reading, you actually end up enjoying it more. Studies show that reading more also increases your chances of success in life.
Question: What is the author's purpose for this passage?
Persuade
Inform
Entertain
Evaluate
Passage: The cat moved slowly toward the mouse. Low to the ground, his tail twitching, he stalked forward, coiled his muscles, and pounced! He could almost taste the delicious mouse as he shot forward, but alas! At at the end of his leap, he got nothing but a mouthful of air. The mouse had escaped!
Question: What is the author's purpose for this passage?
Persuade
Inform
Entertain
Evaluate
Write the phrase that goes in the blank.
Principle 1: Before we can evaluate something, we must determine the ___________ _________.
(a)
Passage from Medallion by Dawn L. Watkins: The man ... looked up. "Hello, boy," he said.
Trave pushed away from the arch wall and straightened his shoulders. His mouth was set in a fine line [because his pride was hurt].
"I am Trave, Prince of Gadalla."
Question: What is the moral issue in this passage?
Being prideful
Standing up straight
Saying your name
Moral Issue: Being prideful.
Rewrite this moral issue as a moral question. (spelling matters this time)
(a)
Passage from Medallion: "Once a skreel fell, bleeding into the valley... It would have died there, but [Enna], knowing the bird would have killed her if it could, healed it anyway... Since then, Enna has walked unharmed among these birds, and it is said, she has been guarded by them more than once."
What is the moral issue in this passage?
Falling and getting hurt
Living in a valley
Helping your enemies
Moral issue: Helping your enemies.
Rewrite this moral issue as a question. (spelling matters this time)
(a)
