Leap Terms
Literary Analysis
Research Simulation
Narrative
Leap Skills/Grammar/ Essays
100
What does "significant" mean?
Important
100
How many sources do literary analysis usually provide on the leap test?
2
100
How many sources are provided on the leap test for research-simulation session?
3
100
a story
Narrative
100
the person telling the story
narrator
200
The problem of the story is known as the _________.
Conflict
200
On the leap test, if you are provided with 2 sources how many paragraphs should you have?
4
200
On the leap test, how many paragraphs should you have for research-simulation?
5 if you have 3 sources and 4 if you are provided with only 2 sources.
200
The person telling the story
narrator
200
Breaking down the question
Decoding
300
What does "theme" mean?
The lesson learned
300
What are the steps for introduction paragraph?
Hook, background information, and claim
300
What are the steps of the body paragraphs for research-simulation and literary analysis?
Topic sentence, evidence, explanation, explanation, evidence, explanation, explanation, and concluding sentence.
300
Which point of view does the narrator use in the passage?
They worked together for an hour or more without speaking. Ellen was grave and absorbed in the anxious thoughts of that spring; Jethro was accustomed to adapting himself to the behaviors and moods of older people, and he found enough in the world about him to occupy his interest as he worked.
a. First person
b. Second Person
c. Third person
c. third-person
300
This task provides students with an opportunity to show their understanding of literature.
Students read two literary texts, answer a set of selected-response questions about the texts,
and write an extended response that compares and/or explains key ideas or elements in the
texts based on grade-level standards (e.g., central idea/message; characterization; structure;
contribution of a section to theme, setting, plot; comparison of themes).
Literary Analysis Writing
400
A direct and brief reference to something in history
Allusion
400
Read the passage. Making Towers Bird-Friendly
The lights on tall communication towers warn pilots to avoid the towers when flying at night. Unfortunately, the steady red lights often used on towers have the opposite effect on birds: the bright beams attract and confuse them. Instead of avoiding the lights, the birds fly directly toward them, crashing into the towers or becoming entangled in power lines. Millions of birds have died this way. However, there is a solution. Unlike steady lights, flashing or blinking lights don't attract birds. In response to demands from conservation groups, the Federal Aviation Administration in 2016 began requiring communication towers in the U.S. to use blinking lights instead of steady ones.What is the main, or central, idea of the passage?
A. To save birds, communication towers have begun using blinking lights.
B. Birds are attracted to the steady red lights on communication towers.
A. To save birds, communication towers have begun using blinking lights.
400
Read the text.
During World War II, the U.S. Navy was segregated by race, and many African Americans were assigned the dangerous work of preparing explosive devices for shipment. On July 17, 1944, as men loaded bombs onto ships at Port Chicago, a California naval base, two ships exploded in a massive blast. The explosion, which was due in part to inadequate safety procedures, killed hundreds, primarily African Americans. The Navy blamed the men for carelessness, and many of the disaster's survivors refused to return to work. As a result, fifty African American men were convicted of mutiny. Their conviction and imprisonment provoked outrage at the Navy's racist policies. Consequently, the Navy began assigning white sailors to share in the hazardous work, and later integrated its forces.
Which organizational structure does this text primarily use?
A. Compare-contrast
B. Cause-effect
B. Cause-effect
400
Which point of view does the narrator use in the passage?
When you said, "Mom can get lost, you know," your sister-in-law widened her eyes in surprise. "You know how Mom is these days," you explained, and your sister-in-law made a face, as if she had no idea what you were talking about. But your family knew what Mom was like these days.
a. First person
b. second person
c. third person
b. second person
400
This task mirrors the research process by presenting two (grade 3) or three (grades 4-8) texts
on a given topic. Students answer a set of selected-response questions about the texts and
then write an extended response about some aspect of the related texts based on grade-level
standards (e.g., comparison/contrast of key details; how author uses reasons and evidence to
support ideas; how each text presents the topic, point of view or purpose of the texts; analysis of
argument/claim).
Research-Simulation Writing
500
On the leap test, when they give you an essay prompt that states: Explain how the author use the development of ideas contribute to the text. What is that asking you to do?
It is asking you to explain how the author uses details/information in the text to inform us about the passage/source.
500
Read the following story. Self-Portrait
Alia was dismayed to find herself in the drawing studio. She had been sick with the flu during the week when everyone else got to pick their classes. She had hoped for Astronomy or Marine Biology, but they were full by the time she got to choose. She loved everything about science, from the way it used facts and formulas to how it revealed the basic nature of things. But art was so . . .un-scientific.The first class project was self-portraits. Some students were drawing self-portraits using mirrors. Others were working from photographs. Alia glanced at the incomplete sketches, feeling like a cat in a dog show.The teacher came up to Alia's easel and sat next to her."Every portrait begins with a circle," he said. "Then you create a series of lines."To demonstrate, he drew a group of small, quick portraits. He began each one with a circle, some straight lines, and a triangle to determine where the eyes, nose, and chin should go. Alia had never thought about it, but the features of everyone's face were in the same spots.Hesitantly, Alia began her own self-portrait. She drew the basic form of a head, the way she had been shown. From there, she used lines to plot the features of her face. The process took patience and precision. She had to take note of each detail. One wrong measurement could throw off the whole portrait.Alia was surprised by the structure and discipline involved in drawing a portrait. Measuring, studying details, revealing the basic nature of something—it reminded her of what she loved about science.
Which of the following best describes the main theme or lesson of the story?
A. Keep trying even if you fail the first time.
B. Don't assume you won't like something until you try it.
B. Don't assume you won't like something until you try it.
500
When they ask on the leap test explain the development of ideas, what are they asking you to do?
Explain what the source is informing us about.
500
Which point of view does the narrator use in the passage?
"Keep those balls going!" he fist-thumped at us. "No one sits out this fire fight! Never underestimate the enemy!"
But there was a broad smile on his face. Now that he was actually seeing the other team, he seemed not at all concerned about the outcome of the game. In the interim between throwing a ball and having it thrown back to me, I told myself that I liked Mr. Galanter.
a. first person
b . second person
c. third person
a. first person
500
This task asks students to read a literary text, answer a set of selected-response questions
about the text, and then create a narrative related to the text (e.g., finish the story, retell the
story in another narrative form or from a different point of view). Students should make sure that
they create narrative, not expository, responses.
Narrative Writing