Open Up - Grade 7 - ELA - Module 1 - End of Unit 3 Assessment

Throughout this unit, you have been planning a narrative for third-grade elementary school students telling the story of a Lost Boy or Lost Girl of Sudan and using information from A Long Walk to Water and the informational texts you have read throughout this module. Be sure to write the story in a way that displays key habits of character for the character in your story.

In this assessment, you will write the narrative you have been planning.

Manage your time carefully so that you can do the following:

1. Review your plans for the narrative on your Narrative Writing Plan graphic organizer.

2. Draft the narrative.

3. Check your narrative for spelling, punctuation, and grammar mistakes.

Use the following documents to assist you in writing your narrative:

• A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park

• Notes and articles from independent research reading and other nonfiction texts from this module (begun in Unit 1)

• “The ‘Lost Girls’ of Sudan” article (from Unit 2, Lesson 1, Work Time A)

• Analyze Main Ideas and Key Details in a Video (from Unit 2, Lessons 2 and 5–6)

• Research on the Lost Boys of Sudan note-catcher (student-generated; from Unit 2, Lesson 3)

• “One Day I Had to Run” article (from Unit 2, Lesson 3)

• Narrative Writing Plan graphic organizer (from Unit 3, Lesson 4, Work Time B)

• Online or print dictionaries (including ELL and home language dictionaries)