AE Active Companion

READING ACTIVE

DETAILED EXPLANATION OF ACTIVE TESTING

In order to help students be better prepared for Active reading tests and quizzes

that will be given on a weekly basis, I have set up a review so that you will clearly

know what material is being evaluated. Students should regularly refer to this page

if they want to be successful in this class.

MONDAY VOCABULARY QUIZZES

Upon the introduction of each new unit in Active, students will first take a

vocabulary quiz at the beginning of class. As this will happen before any word is

spoken regarding the chapter, students are required to have already learned the 9

vocabulary words from the first reading of a unit along with their parts of speech,

i.e. noun, verb, adjective, or adverb. Then students must match each vocabulary

word with its definition. In addition, students must learn the prefix, suffix, or root

word focused on in each particular unit. They must know its meaning and provide 3

sample words using that prefix, suffix, or root word (NOT one of the 9 vocabulary

words). With these three words, students must also supply their definitions.

THURSDAY UNIT TESTS

Later in the week, there will be a reading test on the particular unit studied that

week. Included in this test are the nine vocabulary words from BOTH readings, a

total of 18 words, which students must correctly place into sentences. These words

may need to be altered to indicate plural nouns or verb tense. After this, students

must select the correct answer to five multiple choice comprehension questions.

Finally, students will be required to write an academic paragraph answering a

question related to the topic of the reading unit.

ACTIVE UNITS

Active Skills for Reading

Unit 1: Travel

Travel and Technology

Selling India's Rainy Season

Unit 2: Fashion

The Color of Fashion

Reality TV: Good or Bad for Fashion?

Unit 3: Disappearing Animals

Endangered Species

Bring Back the Woolly Mammoth?

Unit 4: Big Money

What Does a Million Dollars Buy?

Lottery Winners - Rich, but Happy?

Unit 5: Celebrations Around the World

Wedding Customs

Travel Diary: Yanshuel Fireworks

Festival

Unit 6: It's a Mystery

The 'Lost World' of South America

Is Spontaneous Human Combustion

Possible?

Unit 7: Health and Fitness

Successful Dieting

Barefoot Running

Unit 8: Space & Flight

Human Adaptation to Space

Pioneers of Flight

Unit 9: The Changing Family

Is an Only Child a Lonely Child?

Changing Roles: Stay-at-Home Dads

Unit 10: The Future of Education

Internet Learning: The Future?

Plagiarism and the Internet

Unit 11: The Mystery of Memory

The Mysteries of Memory Loss

Words to Remember

Unit 12: Comics

The Evolution of Batman

Graphic Novels Come to Life

GO BEYOND ACTIVE

ACTIVE TEST REVIEW

SUMMARY OF ACTIVE TESTING

Monday Vocabulary Quizzes

-8 vocabulary words

-their meanings

-their parts of speech

-prefix, suffix, or root word

-meaning of prefix, suffix, or root

-3 samples of prefix, suffix, or root

-meanings of the 3 samples

Thusday Unit Tests

-16 vocabulary words

-10 cloze sentences

-5 comprehension questions

-topic-related academic paragraph

Active Companion

Chapter One

Every Monday, class will begin with

the vocabulary quiz. This means

that students must know the

vocabulary before coming to class.

If students have questions about the

vocabulary, they may ask before the

quizzes are handed out. The quiz

should last no longer than 15

minutes.

After the quiz, we will read the first

reading together as a class.

Students take turns reading it

paragraph by paragraph, after which

questions are welcome.

Chapter Two

This reading will NOT be read in

class. Students must read this on

their own for homework and be

ready to answer comprehension

questions that are similar to, but not

the same as, the questions for the

second reading in the book.

Review chapters will not be read in

class at all.

IT'S EASY!

If you like getting 100% on a

regular basis, here's how to do it.

Every Monday quiz comes virtually

word for word from the first chapter

of each unit. Just by looking in the

book, learning the vocabulary, and

doing the exercises, getting a high

score is virtually assured... and it's

easy.

EXPLORE MORE

Expand upon what you're reading

by finding more to read on the

topic. There's this wonderful thing

available to all students that was

not available to me when I was your

age: the Internet. Explore our

topics further on the internet in

order to strengthen your reading

skills. Vocabulary will repeat when

reading the same topic, and your

grasp of the topic will deepen,

which will surely help you when

speaking, reading, or writing on that

topic in the future.

Reading