Life As We Knew It Quiz, Close Reading, Research Project, and Test Bundle

This low-prep bundle covering Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer contains all the formative and summative assessments teachers need to assess general reading comprehension, support the development of close reading analysis skills, and facilitate student research on a range of relevant topics. Included are six plot-based multiple choice quizzes, six short answer alternate quiz options, twenty-one close reading worksheets, research project materials, an end-of-unit test, and answer keys for everything. Materials are delivered in Word Document and PDF formats. (Alternatively, a Google Drive bundle option is available.)

By engaging with these resources, students will have opportunities to perform the following tasks:

• Identify what the text states explicitly and implicitly
• Define complex words as they are used in the text
• Isolate examples of figurative language
• Explain the intended effect of figurative language in context
• Explore how complex characters think, behave, develop, and interact
• Compare and contrast Miranda's childhood with her mother's
• Apply knowledge of literary devices including idiom, pun, metaphor, simile, alliteration, allusion, onomatopoeia, cliché, euphemism, paradox, hyperbole, epiphany, juxtaposition, personification, foreshadowing, symbolism, situational irony, verbal irony, and dramatic irony
• Determine the tone of given passages
• Examine a significant shift in narrative tone
• Discern the functions of given passages
• Identify several narrative techniques that contribute to the development of suspense
• Explore a range of relevant themes
• Articulate connections between a research topic and the assigned novel
• Develop successful methods of recording information
• Evaluate the credibility of source work, taking into consideration readability, timeliness, relevance, expertise, and bias
• Apply conventions of MLA formatting
• Correctly site resources to avoid plagiarism
• Organize information in a cohesive manner, using a note-taking system that includes summary, paraphrasing, and quoted material
• Analyze, synthesize, and integrate information, generating a thoughtfully comprehensive report, free of generalities and redundancies
• Respond to an essay prompt requiring students to examine the protagonist's emotional growth and transformation into a genuine hero
• Cite relevant textual evidence in support of claims
• Write about literature with clarity, accuracy, and precision

Materials are available for teaching a variety of young adult and dystopian novels:

• 1984 by George Orwell - Google and printable
• Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers- Google and printable
• Feed by M.T. Anderson - Google and printable
• Lord of the Flies by William Golding - Google and printable
• The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood- Google and printable
• The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros- Google and printable
• The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells - Google and printable