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Open Up - Grade 5 - ELA - Module 2 - Mid Unit 2 Assessment

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This assessment has two parts. In Part I, you will read passages about the rainforest and answer questions about the author’s craft. In Part II, you will read pairs of passages and compare them.
Part I:

The paragraph below is a description of the rainforest from “Through the Brazilian Wilderness” by Theodore Roosevelt, published over 100 years ago, in 1914. Read the paragraph and answer the questions that follow.

“We drifted and paddled down the swirling brown current, through the vivid rain-drenched green of the tropic forest. The trees leaned over the river from both banks. There were many kinds of palms. One type was the burity with stiff fronds like enormous fans, and another was called the bacaba, with very long, gracefully curving fronds. In places the palms stood close together, towering and slender. Their stems made a stately colonnade. Their fronds were an arched fretwork against the sky. Butterflies of many hues fluttered over the river. The day was overcast, with showers of rain. When the sun broke through rifts in the clouds, his shafts turned the whole forest to gold.”

Roosevelt, Theodore. Through the Brazilian Wilderness. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1914. Project Gutenberg. Web.
Glossary:

palms: a group of tropical plants
frond: a long leaf with many small divisions
colonnade: a row of columns usually holding up a roof
fretwork: patterns or decoration on a surface made by cutting into or through a surface arch: something that has a curved shape

Merriam-Webster. Merriam-Webster, n.d. Web. 30 Nov. 2015.
1.

Part A/B

In the paragraph above, copy one simile and paste it here. What two things are being compared in the simile you chose? (RL.5.4, L.5.5a)


L.5.5.a
RL.5.4
2.

Part A/B

In the paragraph above, copy one metaphor and paste it here. What two things are being compared in the metaphor you chose? (RL.5.4, L.5.5a)


L.5.5.a
RL.5.4
3.

Part C

How does this metaphor help you understand the meaning of the text? (RL.5.4, L.5.5a)


L.5.5.a
RL.5.4
Reread these sentences from the passage by Theodore Roosevelt:

There were many kinds of palms. One type was the burity with stiff fronds like enormous fans, and another was called the bacaba, with very long, gracefully curving fronds.
4.

What words in the sentence best help in understanding what a burity palm looks like? (RL.5.4)

RL.5.4
5.

On the lines below, explain how this description helps the reader to better understand what the palms look like. (RL.5.4, L.5.5a)


RL.5.4
L.5.4.a
Read this passage from page 21 of The Great Kapok Tree and answer the questions that follow.

“Plodding ever so slowly over to the sleeping man, [the three-toed sloth] spoke in her deep and lazy voice: ‘Senhor, how much is beauty worth? Can you live without it? If you destroy the beauty of the rainforest, on what would you feast your eyes?’”

Cherry, Lynne. The Great Kapok Tree: A Tale of the Amazon Rainforest. New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2000. 21. Print.
6.

In the excerpt, copy the idiom and paste it here. What is the meaning of this idiom? (RL.5.4, L.5.5b)

RL.5.4
7.

What word in the sentence best helps in understanding the meaning of “feast your eyes”? (RL.5.4, L.5.5b)

RL.5.4
L.5.5.b
8.

Part A

From whose point of view is this passage being told? (RL.5.6)

9.

Part B

How does this point of view influence how the consequences of cutting down the kapok tree are described? (RL.5.6)


10.

A student wrote a sentence that contains some errors. Rewrite the sentence correctly below. Remember to underline any text titles. (L.5.2d)

"The Most beautiful Roof in the World, by kathryn Lasky, is the story of a scientist living in the rainforest of Belize"


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