'The Most Dangerous Game' Quiz Assessment for Period 4B

Students in Period 3A, the following represents an assessment of the last quiz ('The Most Dangerous Game'):

Class Average: 60% :(

Major Areas of Concern:

1. Literary Element Identification

2. Basic Inferences

3. Main Idea Identification

4. Vocabulary Indentification Through Context Clues

How To Improve:
NOTE: each number represents the number of a specific major area of concern

1. Study literary elements and definitions; review handout on Prose Literature Terms, and become familiar with examples.

2. Use basic reasoning skills, as well as the facts or evidence found within the passages; use a process of elimination system in which you eliminate the answer choice that is most likely to be incorrect.

3. Again, use the basic reasoning skills, but also ask yourself 'why is the author writing this?' or 'what was the author's purpose or intention?' Also use a process of elimination system here too.

4. First, you should identify the part of speech of the word based on its root suffix. Then, try to look at the words around it and determine what it means by looking at how it is used in realtionship to those other words. For example, there may be certain words that tells you what the definition is...you just have to look for them.

Here is an example:

Read the following passage: “An apprehensive night crawled slowly by like a wounded snake and sleep did not visit Rainsford, although the silence of a dead world was on the jungle.”

What does the word apprehensive mean?
a. fearful
b. corrupted
c. improved
d. wondrous

Use a process of elimination method too. If the answer choices don't seem correct, use clues from the sentence or passage and eliminate them from your list of choices.

Students, as communicated to the period 3A class, the successful completion of a literary analysis of FCAT style quiz doesn't come easy; it takes a lot of hard work. This simply means that you must develop or enhance your study skills...and that cannot take place overnight. Remember, the old axiom: 'Anything worth having is worth working for'.

Also, remember, homework assignments, those pesky little activities, are not designed to annoy, they are in fact designed to assist you in the preparation for quizzes, tests, essays, and general discussion. If you look closely, the annotation and outline assignments ALL relate to the skills that need improving. It is all relative; think about it!!!