Hazel Green (Week 12)
Skill:Characteristics of Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry or Plays
Subject: ReadingGrade 4
READING
This test section contains one reading selection with a total of eight multiple-choice and one open-response (short answer) questions. Please mark your answer for each multiple-choice question by filling in the circle completely for the correct answer. Mark only one answer for each question. If you do not know the answer, make your best guess.In this folktale, two young wives must agree to a difficult request before they can visit their friends in the old village. Will they be able to honor the request and return home? Read "The Lantern and the Fan" to find out, and answer the questions that follow.
THE LANTERN AND THE FAN
by Florence Holbrook
1 / In a Japanese village there once lived a man who had two sons. When the sons were grown up, each brought home a wife from another village a long distance away. The father was greatly pleased with his two daughters-in-law, and for many months they all lived very happily together.
2 / At last the two young wives asked to go home to visit their friends. Among the Japanese the sons and the sons' wives must always obey the father, so the two wives said, "Father-in-law, it is a long, long time since we have seen our friends. May we go to our old home and visit them?" The father-in-law answered, "No." After many months they asked again, and again he answered, "No." Once more they asked. The father-in-law thought, "They care nothing for me, or they would not wish to leave me, but I have a plan, and I can soon know whether they love their father-in-law or not." Then he said to the older of the two wives, "You may go if you wish, but you must never come back unless you bring me fire wrapped in paper." To the younger he said, "You may go if you wish, but you must never come back unless you bring me wind wrapped in paper." The father-in-law thought, "Now I shall find out. If they care for me, they will search the country through till they find paper that will hold fire and wind."
3 / The two young wives were so glad to visit their old friends that for almost a month they forgot all about the gifts that they were to carry to their father-in-law. At last, when it was time to go home, they were greatly troubled about what they must carry with them, and they asked a wise man where to find the strange things. "Paper that will hold fire and wind!" he cried. "There is no such paper in Japan." The two women asked one wise man after another, and every one declared, "There is no such paper in Japan." What should they do? They feared they would never see their home again. They were so sad that they left their friends and wandered a long distance into the forest. Great tears fell from their eyes.
4 / "I do not let people cry in my woods," said a voice. "My trees do not grow well in salt water."
5 / The poor wives were so sorrowful that they forgot to be afraid, and the older one said, "Can we help crying? Unless I can carry to my father-in-law fire wrapped in paper, I can never go home." "And I," wailed the younger, "unless I can carry wind wrapped in paper, I can never go home. None of the wise men ever heard of such things. What shall we do?"
6 / "It is easy enough to wrap fire in paper," answered the voice. "Here is a piece of paper. Now watch." They watched, and the strangest thing in all the world happened right before their eyes. There was no one to be seen, but a piece of paper appeared on the ground and folded itself into a Japanese lantern. "Now put a candle inside," said the voice, "and you have paper holding fire. What more could you ask?"
7 / Then the older woman was happy, but the younger was still sad. She saw now that fire could be carried in paper, but surely no one could carry wind. "O dear voice," she cried, "can any one carry wind in paper?"
8 / "That is much easier than to carry fire," replied the voice, "for wind does not burn holes. Watch."
9 / They watched eagerly. Another piece of paper came all by itself and lay on the ground between them. There was a picture on it of a tree covered with white blossoms. Two women stood under the tree, gathering the blossoms.
10 / "The two women are yourselves," said the voice, "and the blossoms are the gifts that the father-in-law will give you when you go home."
11 / "But I cannot go home," the younger wailed, "for I cannot carry wind wrapped in paper."
12 / "Here is the paper, and there is always plenty of wind. Why not take them?"
13 / "Indeed, I do not know how," the younger woman answered sorrowfully.
14 / "This way, of course," said the voice. Some long, light twigs flew to the paper. It folded itself, over, under, together. It opened and closed, and
it waved itself before the tearful face of the younger woman. "Does not the wind come to your face?" asked the voice, "and is it not the fan that has brought it? The lantern carries fire wrapped in paper, and the fan carries wind wrapped in paper."
15 / Then, indeed, the two young women were happy, and when they came to the home of their father-in-law, he was as glad as they. He gave them beautiful gifts of gold and silver, and he said, "No one ever had such marvels before as the lantern and the fan, but in my home there are two more precious things than these, and they are my two dear daughters."
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Mark your answer choices for multiple-choice questions 1 through 8 in
the spaces provided.
1. / Which event in from the folktale allows the wives to return home?Ο / The wives receive gifts of gold and silver.
Ο / The wives visit their friends in their old village.
Ο / The voice begins to speak and guides them to the village.
Ο / The voice tells them how to make gifts for their father-in-law.
2. / What genre is the above passage?
Ο / nonfiction
Ο / fiction
Ο / poetry
Ο / play
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3. / Identify the genre of the above passage?Ο / fiction
Ο / nonfiction
Ο / poetry
Ο / play
4. / Estimate the number of home fires that do NOT start in the kitchen.
Ο / Three out of ten.
Ο / Six out of ten.
Ο / Seven out of ten.
Ο / Ten out of three.
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This is an excerpt from The Beggar and the King. Readthe passage and answer the questions that follow.
THE BEGGAR AND THE KING
CHARACTERS
THE KING OF A GREAT COUNTRY
HIS SERVANT
A BEGGAR
[A chamber in the palace overlooks a courtyard. The season is midsummer. The windows of the palace are open, and from a distance there comes the sound of a man's voice crying for bread.] [THE KING sits in a golden chair. A golden crown is on his head, and he holds in his hand a scepter which is also of gold. A SERVANT stands by his side, fanning him with an enormous fan of peacock feathers.]
THE BEGGAR: (outside) Bread. Bread. Bread. Give me some bread.
THE KING: (languidly) Who is that crying in the street for bread?
THE SERVANT: (fanning) O king, it is a beggar.
THE KING: Why does he cry for bread?
THE SERVANT: O king, he cries for bread in order that he may fill his belly.
THE KING: I do not like the sound of his voice. It annoys me very much. Send him away.
THE SERVANT: (bowing) O king, he has been sent away.
THE KING: If that is so, then why do I hear his voice?
THE SERVANT: O king, he has been sent away many times, yet each time that he is sent away he returns again, crying louder than he did before.
THE KING: He is very unwise to annoy me on such a warm day. He must be punished for his impudence.
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5. / Identify the genre of the above passage?Ο / poem
Ο / fantasy
Ο / play
Ο / nonfiction
6. / What should be done with the words in the parentheses?
Ο / The narrator reads them out loud.
Ο / The actors read them out loud.
Ο / The audience reads them silently.
Ο / They are stage directions to be acted out.
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The Road Not Taken
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I –
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
7. / Why couldn’t the traveler go down both roads?Ο / The other road was covered with poison ivy.
Ο / One road was closed.
Ο / You can only choose one path.
Ο / He didn’t want to go back and walk on the other one.
8. / Identify the genre of the above passage?
Ο / Play
Ο / Fantasy
Ο / Nonfiction
Ο / Poetry
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Read all parts of the question before you begin. Write your answer to open response question 9 in the space provided on the next page.
9. / Poems have distinct characteristics. Read the poem above, “The Road Not Taken” and answer the following question.Identify two qualities that make this a poem. Support your answer with examples of these characteristics from the passage.Do not write on this page. Please write your
answer to this open-response question on
the next page.
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Scoring Guide
SCORE / DESCRIPTION4 / Student identifies 2 qualities that make this a poem and support with examples from the passage.
3 / Student identifies 2 qualities that make this a poem OR Student identifies 1 quality make this a poem and supports their answer with details from the passage
2 / Student identifies 1 quality that make this a poem OR gives support, but no characteristics.
1 / Student identifies 1 quality without support
0 / Student’s response is totally incorrect or irrelevant.
Blank / No student response.
Annotated Rubric/ Performance Expectations for ORQ
Academic Expectation: 1.2
Core Content: RD-04-2.1 – Demonstrate knowledge of the characteristics of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and plays.
Ceiling DOK Level: 2Question DOK Level: 2
Question Type (circle): Scaffold, Single Dimension/Component, Two or More Relatively Independent Components, Student Choice, Respond to Provided Information
An appropriate student response should provide evidence of the student’s understanding……….
the characteristics of poetry.
For example, possible response:
The break in stanzas—poetry uses line breaks to create rhythm or sound, to signal meaning, and sometimes to give poems a particular appearance.
“I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh”
Each line is capitalized because poetry doesn’t have to follow all the rules of grammar.
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
The rhyme at the ends of the stanzas with lay, day and way are repetition of “ack” sound.
lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
Essential Vocabulary: Characteristics of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, plays.
Resources/Technology:
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Grade 4– Subject: ReadingQuestion / First
A.E. / First CC / DOK / DOK
Level of MC Question / Answer
Key / Rational/Annotation for MC Questions
1 / 1.2 / RD-04-2.1 / 2 / 2 / C / Recognize the characteristics and elements of different kinds of genres.
2 / 1.2 / RD-04-2.1 / 2 / 2 / B / Recognize the characteristics and elements of different kinds of genres.
3 / 1.2 / RD-04-2.1 / 2 / 2 / B / Recognize the characteristics and elements of different kinds of genres.
4 / 1.2 / RD-04-2.1 / 2 / 2 / C / Recognize the characteristics and elements of different kinds of genres.
5 / 1.2 / RD-04-2.1 / 2 / 2 / C / Recognize the characteristics and elements of different kinds of genres.
6 / 1.2 / RD-04-2.1 / 2 / 2 / D / Recognize the characteristics and elements of different kinds of genres.
7 / 1.2 / RD-04-2.1 / 2 / 2 / C / Recognize the characteristics and elements of different kinds of genres.
8 / 1.2 / RD-04-2.1 / 2 / 2 / D / Recognize the characteristics and elements of different kinds of genres.
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