Open Up - Grade 7 - ELA - Module 2 - End of Unit 1 Assessment

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6 Questions
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How did the idea of healthy carriers influence what happened during the typhoid epidemic? (RI.3)

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What is one way the events of the typhoid epidemic changed people’s ideas about disease? (RI.3)

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Read the following sentence, and then answer the question.

“From the beginning, newspapers had a field day reporting on Mary Mallon’s case, and when an article in the Journal of the American Medical Association in 1908 referred to her as “Typhoid Mary,” the tabloids immediately started using that name too. Before long, Typhoid Mary was a household name.

How does the phrase household name contribute to the meaning of this sentence? (RI.4)

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Read the following sentence, and then answer the question

“Doctors and officials were no doubt surprised to see Mary standing up for herself so fiercely, and her behavior may have branded her as a problem case in their eyes” (92).

How does the use of the word branded affect the tone of the sentence? (RI.4)

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The author says that “people have tried to make up their minds about Mary” over the years. Below is a list of ideas, events, and individuals from the text. Choose items from the list and place them in the boxes to show how the interactions of ideas, events, and actions of individuals could lead people to the conclusion that Mary was a “victim” or a “villain.”

Idea: People like Mary had “no power in the society in which she lived” (92).
Event or Individual Action: Mary was detained even though other healthy carriers were not.
Event or Individual Action: George Soper did not treat Mary like a human when he found her.
Idea: Healthy carriers can infect others without being sick.
Event or Individual Action: Mary went back to cooking after being released.


6.

It is time for you to be the detective. Using several pieces of the evidence you identified in item 5 above, write a brief response that explains how the ideas, events, and actions of individuals interacted in the text to support either the view that Mary was a “villain” or that Mary’s life “was ruined by an uncaring system.” Be sure to use evidence from the text, and explain how these events and ideas interact to support your view. (RI.7.3)


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