ELA 10 Pre-Assessment 1 - Cinco Delgado | Library

This is a pre-assessment to see what you know for this 10 day unit.  The purpose of this assessment is for you to show me what you know about the topics and concepts that will be covered in this unit.

Read the following text and be prepared to answer this question:  Which passage below best states the theme or central idea of the text?

I guess I'm just a stickler, a perfectionist, but if you do a thing, I always say, you might as well do it right. Everything satisfied me about the security measures on our assignment except one—the official Army designation. Project Hush. I don't know who thought it up, and I certainly would never ask, but whoever it was, he should have known better. When you want a project kept secret, you don't give it a designation like that! You give it something neutral, some name like the Manhattan and Overlord they used in World War II, which won't excite anybody's curiosity. But we were stuck with Project Hush and we had to take extra measures to ensure secrecy. Naturally, the commanding general of the heavily fortified research post to which we were attached could not ask what we were doing, under penalty of court-martial, but he had to be given further instructions to shut off his imagination like a faucet every time he heard an explosion. Some idiot in Washington was actually going to list Project Hush in the military budget by name! It took fast action, I can tell you, to have it entered under Miscellaneous "X" Research. Well, we'd covered the unforgivable blunder, though not easily, and now we could get down to the real business of the project. Project Hush was set up to counter new weapons in development. Our goal was not just to reach the Moon. We had done that on 24 June 1967 with an unmanned ship that carried instruments to report back data on soil, temperature, cosmic rays and so on. Unfortunately, it was put out of commission by a rockslide. An unmanned rocket would be useless against the new weapons. We had to get to the Moon before any other country did and set up a permanent station—an armed one—and do it without anybody else knowing about it.

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Select the detail that supports the answer to the previous question.

Read the following text and be prepared to answer the following question:  Which of the following is the best summary?

Today, LEGO® bricks are some of the world’s most popular toys. But they’re so much more. Businesses use LEGO® bricks to help their employees think more creatively. Artists like Nathan Sawaya use LEGO® bricks to make amazing sculptures exhibited all over the world. Educators have used LEGO® products to challenge students in math and science. In 2015, a team of Girl Scouts wondered how they could make reading easier for people who can’t move their arms. They designed a battery-powered page-turning machine built from LEGO® bricks and LEGO® tires. They won the White House Science Fair and got to meet the President of the United States. But perhaps the most amazing thing about LEGO® toys is the way they have seeped into our culture, allowing us to create mini-worlds of the books, movies, comic books, and video games that we love.

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Which of the following is the best summary?

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Read the following statements. Which is the best example of a claim?

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Draggable item		Corresponding Item
Ethos		Employing a sense of credibility
Pathos		Appeal to emotion
Logos		Appeal to logic

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This statement is a fact: Pineapple belongs on pizza.

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This statement is an opinion: Apple is better than Android.

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	Ethos	Logos	Pathos
Dentists all over the country recommend this toothbrush.
Reading books each day is beneficial and all students should read for at least twenty minutes each day. Studies have shown that students who read this amount score in the 98th percentile on standardized tests.
A dog would be a great addition to our family because they are constant, loyal companions who are loving and sweet. A dog would bring us together as a family and make me the happiest daughter on earth.