A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah Test and Answer Key (Printable)
Inquiring Mind of the English Teacher Kind
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Grade Levels
9th - 12th, Homeschool
Resource Type
Standards
CCSSRI.9-10.1
CCSSRI.9-10.2
CCSSRI.9-10.3
CCSSRI.9-10.10
CCSSRI.11-12.1
Formats Included
- Zip
Pages
20 pages
Inquiring Mind of the English Teacher Kind
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Description
This summative test covers A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah and includes an answer key, as well as a standards-based rubric for scoring essays. Materials are delivered in Word Document and PDF formats. (Alternatively, a self-grading Google Drive option is available.)
By administering this assessment, teachers will evaluate students' abilities to do the following:
- Demonstrate knowledge significant figures in a nonfiction text
- Demonstrate knowledge of significant events throughout the memoir
- Respond to an essay prompt requiring students to explore the concept of perseverance in the context of the memoir
- Support claims made in an academic essay with sound reasoning and relevant textual evidence
Materials are available for teaching a variety of nonfiction texts:
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Total Pages
20 pages
Answer Key
Included
Teaching Duration
N/A
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Standards
to see state-specific standards (only available in the US).
CCSSRI.9-10.1
Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
CCSSRI.9-10.2
Determine a central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text, including how it emerges and is shaped and refined by specific details; provide an objective summary of the text.
CCSSRI.9-10.3
Analyze how the author unfolds an analysis or series of ideas or events, including the order in which the points are made, how they are introduced and developed, and the connections that are drawn between them.
CCSSRI.9-10.10
By the end of grade 9, read and comprehend literary nonfiction in the grades 9-10 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range.By the end of grade 10, read and comprehend literary nonfiction at the high end of the grades 9-10 text complexity band independently and proficiently.
CCSSRI.11-12.1
Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text, including determining where the text leaves matters uncertain.
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