In Cold Blood Exam - Mr. DwyerMr. Dwyer

Performance Indicators:

P.S ELA-2 Reading Analysis: 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.

A. Evaluate the relevant themes and synthesize how they are present in the novel in oral and written responses.
B. Interpret the implications of setting and circumstance.
C. Analyze the role of characters in the plot in oral and written responses.
D. Analyze important quotations from the text in oral and written responses.
E. Annotate the text.

P.S ELA-3 Reading Craft and Structure: Determine an author’s point of view or purpose in a text in which the rhetoric is particularly effective, analyzing how style and content contribute to the power, persuasiveness or beauty of a text.

A. Understand SOAPSTone: Speaker, Occasion, Audience, Purpose, Subject, Tone
B. Analyze the plot and/or design of the text, following shifts in time and place.

The IN COLD BLOOD Exam features questions selected from the various study guides about the novel located on the third quarter syllabus.

PART 1 CHARACTERS– This section of the exam requires you to match listed characters with essential descriptions about these characters from the novel. 20 POINTS

PART 2 FREYTAG’S PYRAMID– Considering Alvin Dewey as the protagonist of the novel you will identify various developments in the story according to the Freytag’s Pyramid model. 10 POINTS

PART 3 PASSAGES– Memorable passages have been selected from the novel that you will associate with the character who expresses or who is described by the passage.
10 POINTS

PART 4 TRUE/FALSE– Events, selected from the study guide, require you to determine whether the information in question is valid according to the novel.
10 POINTS

PART 5 WRITTEN RESPONSE– The final section of the exam requires you to respond to analysis-based questions requiring you to consider the movie Capote. 50 POINTS