ELA Main Idea|Theme|Cornell Notes Pre-Assessment 1

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.

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What is the central Idea of this passage?

Despite the hatred that most people feel toward cockroaches, they do help humans in several ways. For example, they are perfect experimental animals and are used for scientific research in the laboratory. Breeding them is easy, for they thrive under almost any conditions. In studies on nutrition and food, cockroaches are good subjects because they will eat any kind of food. They can be used to study heart disease, and cancer researchers work with roaches because they grow cancerous tumors like those that are found in humans.

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What is the theme of the following passage?

A jar of honey was turned over and the sticky sweetness flowed out on the table. The sweet smell of the honey soon brought a large number of Flies buzzing around. They did not
wait for an invitation. No, indeed; they settled right down, feet and all, to gorge themselves. The Flies were quickly smeared from head to foot with honey. Their wings stuck together. They could not pull their feet out of the sticky mass. And so they met their end, giving their lives for the sake of a taste of sweetness.

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Select the sentence that supports the answer for the previous question.

A jar of honey was turned over and the sticky sweetness flowed out on the table. The sweet smell of the honey soon brought a large number of Flies buzzing around. They did not
wait for an invitation. No, indeed; they settled right down, feet and all, to gorge themselves. The Flies were quickly smeared from head to foot with honey. Their wings stuck together. They could not pull their feet out of the sticky mass. And so they met their end, giving their lives for the sake of a taste of sweetness.

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What is the central idea of this passage?

La Llorona ("The Weeping Woman") is a widespread legend throughout the region of Hispanic America. The basic story tells of a beautiful woman named Maria who drowns her children in order to be with the man that she loved. Maria is forced to wander the Earth for all eternity, searching in vain for her drowned offspring, with her constant weeping giving her the name "La Llorona". She is trapped in between the living world and the spirit world. Parents often use this story to prevent their children from wandering out at night. Legend says you can hear her cry, "¡Ay, mis hijos!" ("Oh, my children!")

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When creating Cornell Notes, it is crucial to write the topic of the notes?

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How should the information be written in the "Notes" section?

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The information in the key ideas/question section need to align with the notes taken in the note section?

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

When creating Cornell Notes, it is crucial to write the topic of the notes?

How should the information be written in the "Notes" section?

The information in the key ideas/question section need to align with the notes taken in the note section?

What is the last step taken when writing Cornell Notes?