11-12 Grade – Unit 2 Assessment – RL.11-12.3, RL.11-12.4, RL.11-12.5, RL.11-12.6, RL.11-12.9, RL.11-12.10, W.11-12.6, W.11-12.3, SL.11-12.5, SL.11-12.6, L.11-12.4a

1. True or False: Even though this is a group project, each person should be held accountable for participating.

2. True or False: All narrative essays must use “I”

You are giving an in-class presentation on the effect of social media networks on the political process.

3. In order to demonstrate to the class how people interact on social media networks in real time, it is most important that you have  _____.

A student has written a speech. Read an excerpt from her speech and the directions that follow.

For many years, graphic designers, engineers, scientists and researchers longed for the day when 3 dimensional (3D) printing would become a reality. 3D printing is a combination of various processes that can make a one or two dimensional object appear in 3D form. In 3D printing, multiple layers of material are combined in order for objects to take form.  3D objects can be created in various shapes and sizes and for a variety of reasons. With 3D technology, numerous advances can be made in science and medicine. In addition, households across America can become equipped with the technology that is needed to become more energy efficient and cost-effective.

4.  The student has found a direct quote from a researcher. What is the best way for the student to integrate the quote into the speech?

from The Hound of Baskervilles by Alexander Conan Doyle

“You have been at your club all day, I perceive”.

“My dear Holmes!”

“Am I right?”

“Certainly, but how-?”

He laughed at my bewildered expression.

“There is a delightful freshness about you, Watson, which makes it a pleasure to exercise any small powers which I possess at your expense. A gentleman goes forth on a showery and miry day. He returns immaculate in the evening with the gloss still on his hat and his boots. He has been a fixture therefore all day. He is not a man with intimate friends. Where, then, could he have been? Is it not obvious?”

“Well, it is rather obvious”.

“The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes. Where do you think that I have been?”

“A fixture also?”.

“On the contrary, I have been to Devonshire”.

“In spirit?”

“Exactly. My body has remained in this armchair and has, I regret to observe, consumed in my absence two large pots of coffee and an incredible amount of tobacco. After you left I sent down to Stamford’s for the Ordnance map of this portion of the moor, and my spirit has hovered over it all day. I flatter myself that I could find my way about”.

“Large-scale map, I presume?”

“Very large”. He unrolled one section and held it over his knee. “Here you have the particular district which concerns us. That is Baskerville Hall in the middle”.

5. What is the meaning of the word immaculate in line 8 of the excerpt?

Read the following excerpt from “The Inn” by Guy de Maupassant

Resembling in appearance all the wooden hostelries of the High Alps situated at the foot of glaciers in the barren rocky gorges that intersect the summits of the mountains, the Inn of Schwarenbach serves as a resting place for travellers crossing the Gemmi Pass.

It remains open for six months in the year and is inhabited by the family of Jean Hauser; then, as soon as the snow begins to fall and to fill the valley so as to make the road down to Loeche impassable, the father and his three sons go away and leave the house in charge of the old guide, Gaspard Hari, with the young guide, Ulrich Kunsi, and Sam, the great mountain dog.

The two men and the dog remain till the spring in their snowy prison, with nothing before their eyes except the immense white slopes of the Balmhorn, surrounded by light, glistening summits, and are shut in, blocked up and buried by the snow which rises around them and which envelops, binds and crushes the little house, which lies piled on the roof, covering the windows and blocking up the door.

It was the day on which the Hauser family were going to return to Loeche, as winter was approaching, and the descent was becoming dangerous. Three mules started first, laden with baggage and led by the three sons. Then the mother, Jeanne Hauser, and her daughter Louise mounted a fourth mule and set off in their turn and the father followed them, accompanied by the two men in charge, who were to escort the family as far as the brow of the descent. First of all they passed round the small lake, which was now frozen over, at the bottom of the mass of rocks which stretched in front of the inn, and then they followed the valley, which was dominated on all sides by the snow-covered summits.

A ray of sunlight fell into that little white, glistening, frozen desert and illuminated it with a cold and dazzling flame. No living thing appeared among this ocean of mountains. There was no motion in this immeasurable solitude and no noise disturbed the profound silence.

By degrees the young guide, Ulrich Kunsi, a tall, long-legged Swiss, left old man Hauser and old Gaspard behind, in order to catch up the mule which bore the two women. The younger one looked at him as he approached and appeared to be calling him with her sad eyes. She was a young, fairhaired little peasant girl, whose milk-white cheeks and pale hair looked as if they had lost their color by their long abode amid the ice. When he had got up to the animal she was riding he put his hand on the crupper and relaxed his speed. Mother Hauser began to talk to him, enumerating with the minutest details all that he would have to attend to during the winter. It was the first time that he was going to stay up there, while old Hari had already spent fourteen winters amid the snow, at the inn of Schwarenbach.

Ulrich Kunsi listened, without appearing to understand and looked incessantly at the girl. From time to time he replied: “Yes, Madame Hauser,” but his thoughts seemed far away and his calm features remained unmoved.

6. Which conflict does this passage address?

Read the following excerpt from the poem “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry” and answer the question that follows.

from “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry” by Walt Whitman

1

Flood-tide below me! I watch you face to face;

Clouds of the west! sun there half an hour high! I see you also face to face.

Crowds of men and women attired in the usual costumes! how curious you are to me!

On the ferry-boats, the hundreds and hundreds that cross, returning home, are more curious to me than you suppose;

And you that shall cross from shore to shore years hence, are more to me, and more in my meditations, than you might suppose.

2

The impalpable sustenance of me from all things, at all hours of the day;

The simple, compact, well-join’d scheme—myself disintegrated, every one disintegrated, yet part of the scheme:

The similitudes of the past, and those of the future;

The glories strung like beads on my smallest sights and hearings—on the walk in the street, and the passage over the river;

The current rushing so swiftly, and swimming with me far away;

The others that are to follow me, the ties between me and them;

The certainty of others—the life, love, sight, hearing of others.

Others will enter the gates of the ferry, and cross from shore to shore;

Others will watch the run of the flood-tide;

Others will see the shipping of Manhattan north and west, and the heights of Brooklyn to the south and east;

Others will see the islands large and small;

Fifty years hence, others will see them as they cross, the sun half an hour high;

A hundred years hence, or ever so many hundred years hence, others will see them,

Will enjoy the sunset, the pouring in of the flood-tide, the falling back to the sea of the ebb-tide.

3

It avails not, neither time or place—distance avails not;

I am with you, you men and women of a generation, or ever so many generations hence;

I project myself—also I return—I am with you, and know how it is.

Just as you feel when you look on the river and sky, so I felt;

Just as any of you is one of a living crowd, I was one of a crowd;

Just as you are refresh’d by the gladness of the river and the bright flow, I was refresh’d;

Just as you stand and lean on the rail, yet hurry with the swift current, I stood, yet was hurried;

Just as you look on the numberless masts of ships, and the thick-stem’d pipes of steamboats, I look’d.

7. What is the impact of Whitman’s use of repetition in the poem?

A student is preparing a speech about high schools that offer dual degree credit programs with their local universities and colleges. She is looking for digital media to incorporate into her presentation

8. The student is determining how to present her findings. Which of the following should come first?

ad the following stanzas from a nineteenth-century American poem.

“The Aged Pilot Man” by Mark Twain

On the Erie Canal, it was,

All on a summer’s day,

I sailed forth with my parents

Far away to Albany.

From out the clouds at noon that day

There came a dreadful storm,

That piled the billows high about,

And filled us with alarm.

A man came rushing from a house,

Saying, [1]’Snub up your boat I pray,

Snub up your boat, snub up, alas,

Snub up while yet you may.’

Our captain cast one glance astern,

Then forward glanced he,

And said, ‘My wife and little ones

I never more shall see.’

Said Dollinger the pilot man,

In noble words, but few,-

‘Fear not, but lean on Dollinger,

And he will fetch you through.’

The boat drove on, the frightened mules

Tore through the rain and wind,

And bravely still, in danger’s post,

The whip-boy strode behind.

‘Come ‘board, come ‘board,’ the captain cried,

‘Nor tempt so wild a storm;’

But still the raging mules advanced,

And still the boy strode on.

9. Which literary device is used to develop the poem’s narrator?

Read the following two excerpts from the satirical essay “A Modest Proposal” and answer the question that follows.

Excerpt #1 from “A Modest Proposal” by Jonathon Swift

It is a melancholy object to those, who walk through this great town, or travel in the country, when they see the streets, the roads and cabin-doors crowded with beggars of the female sex, followed by three, four, or six children, all in rags, and importuning every passenger for an alms. These mothers instead of being able to work for their honest livelihood, are forced to employ all their time in strolling to beg sustenance for their helpless infants who, as they grow up, either turn thieves for want of work, or leave their dear native country, to fight for the Pretender in Spain, or sell themselves to the Barbadoes.

I think it is agreed by all parties, that this prodigious number of children in the arms, or on the backs, or at the heels of their mothers, and frequently of their fathers, is in the present deplorable state of the kingdom, a very great additional grievance; and therefore whoever could find out a fair, cheap and easy method of making these children sound and useful members of the common-wealth, would deserve so well of the publick, as to have his statue set up for a preserver of the nation.

….

Excerpt #2 from “A Modest Proposal” by Jonathon Swift

I shall now therefore humbly propose my own thoughts, which I hope will not be liable to the least objection.

I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed, is, at a year old, a most delicious nourishing and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricasie, or a ragoust.

10. Which statement best describes the effect of the author’s point of view?

Read the following passage from Don Quixote and answer the questions that follow.

from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes

In short, he became so absorbed in his books that he spent his nights from sunset to sunrise, and his days from dawn to dark, poring over them; and what with little sleep and much reading his brains got so dry that he lost his wits. His fancy grew full of what he used to read about in his books, enchantments, quarrels, battles, challenges, wounds, wooings, loves, agonies, and all sorts of impossible nonsense; and it so possessed his mind that the whole fabric of invention and fancy he read of was true, that to him no history in the world had more reality in it. He used to say the Cid Ruy Diaz was a very good knight, but that he was not to be compared with the Knight of the Burning Sword who with one back-stroke cut in half two fierce and monstrous giants. He thought more of Bernardo del Carpio because at Roncesvalles he slew Roland in spite of enchantments, availing himself of the artifice of Hercules when he strangled Antaeus the son of Terra in his arms. He approved highly of the giant Morgante, because, although of the giant breed which is always arrogant and ill-conditioned, he alone was affable and well-bred. But above all he admired Reinaldos of Montalban, especially when he saw him sallying forth from his castle and robbing everyone he met, and when beyond the seas he stole that image of Mahomet which, as his history says, was entirely of gold. To have a bout of kicking at that traitor of a Ganelon he would have given his housekeeper, and his niece into the bargain.

11. What can readers infer about Don Quixote’s character based on this passage?

Read the following lines from Shakespeare’s As You Like It.

All the world’s a stage,

And all the men and women merely players.

They have their exits and their entrances,

And one man in his time plays many parts,

His acts being seven ages. At first the infant,

Mewling and puking in the nurse’s arms.

Then, the whining school-boy with his satchel

And shining morning face, creeping like snail

Unwillingly to school.

12.  What does the phrase, “world’s a stage” mean?