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The short essay questions evaluate not only whether students have read the material, but also how well they understand and can apply it.

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They require more thought than multiple choice questions, but are shorter than the essay questions. The Multiple Choice Questions in this lesson plan will test a student's recall and understanding of The Shipping News. Use these questions for quizzes, homework assignments or tests. The questions are broken out into sections, so they focus on specific chapters within The Shipping News. This allows you to test and review the book as you proceed through the unit.

Typically, there are questions per chapter, act or section. Use the Oral Reading Evaluation Form when students are reading aloud in class. Pass the forms out before you assign reading, so students will know what to expect. You can use the forms to provide general feedback on audibility, pronunciation, articulation, expression and rate of speech. You can use this form to grade students, or simply comment on their progress. Use the Writing Evaluation Form when you're grading student essays. This will help you establish uniform criteria for grading essays even though students may be writing about different aspects of the material.

By following this form you will be able to evaluate the thesis, organization, supporting arguments, paragraph transitions, grammar, spelling, punctuation, etc. They pull questions from the multiple choice and short essay sections, the character and object descriptions, and the chapter abstracts to create worksheets that can be used for pop quizzes, in-class assignments and homework.

Periodic homework assignments and quizzes are a great way to encourage students to stay on top of their assigned reading. They can also help you determine which concepts and ideas your class grasps and which they need more guidance on. By pulling from the different sections of the lesson plan, quizzes and homework assignments offer a comprehensive review of The Shipping News in manageable increments that are less substantial than a full blown test. Use the Test Summary page to determine which pre-made test is most relevant to your students' learning styles.

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This lesson plan provides both full unit tests and mid-unit tests. You can choose from several tests that include differing combinations of multiple choice questions, short answer questions, short essay questions, full essay questions, character and object matching, etc. Some of the tests are designed to be more difficult than others.

Some have essay questions, while others are limited to short-response questions, like multiple choice, matching and short answer questions. If you don't find the combination of questions that best suits your class, you can also create your own test on The Shipping News. If you want to integrate questions you've developed for your curriculum with the questions in this lesson plan, or you simply want to create a unique test or quiz from the questions this lesson plan offers, it's easy to do.

Scroll through the sections of the lesson plan that most interest you and cut and paste the exact questions you want to use into your new, personalized The Shipping News lesson plan. View all Lesson Plans available from BookRags. Get The Shipping News from Amazon. View the Study Pack. Short Essay Questions Key. Short Answer Questions Key. But Partridge, dribbling oil, said, "Ah, fuck it. In Clark Fork had played pool with a man with a deviated septum.

Quoyle in the Adirondack chair, listened, covered his hand with his chin. There was olive oil on his interview suit, a tomato seed on his diamond-patterned tie.

Quoyle and Partridge met at a laundromat in Mockingburg, New York. Quoyle was humped over the newspaper, circling help wanted ads while his Big Man shirts revolved. Partridge remarked that the job market was tight. Yes, said Quoyle, it was.

Partridge floated an opinion on the drought, Quoyle nodded. Partridge moved the conversation to the closing of the sauerkraut factory. Quoyle fumbled his shirts from the dryer; they fell on the floor in a rain of hot coins and ballpoint pens. The shirts were streaked with ink. Then wash them again, put a cup of bleach in.

Partridge was astonished to see the heavy man's colorless eyes enlarged with tears. For Quoyle was a failure at loneliness, yearned to be gregarious, to know his company was a pleasure to others. He didn't have that many friends either. The next evening Quoyle was there, gripping paper bags. The front of Partridge's house, the empty street drenched in amber light. In the bags a packet of imported Swedish crackers, bottles of red, pink and white wine, foil-wrapped triangles of foreign cheeses.

Some kind of hot, juggling music on the other side of Partridge's door that thrilled Quoyle. They were friends for a while, Quoyle, Partridge and Mercalia. Partridge black, small, a restless traveler across the slope of life, an all-night talker; Mercalia, second wife of Partridge and the color of a brown feather on dark water, a hot intelligence; Quoyle large, white, stumbling along, going nowhere. Partridge saw beyond the present, got quick shots of coming events as though loose brain wires briefly connected.

He had been born with a caul; at three, witnessed ball lightning bouncing down a fire escape; dreamed of cucumbers the night before his brother-in-law was stung by hornets. He was sure of his own good fortune. He could blow perfect smoke rings. Cedar waxwings always stopped in his yard on their migration flights. Now, in the backyard, seeing Quoyle like a dog dressed in a man's suit for a comic photo, Partridge thought of something. Summer's over and his college rats go back to their holes. The paper's junk, but maybe give it a few months, look around for something better.

What the hell, maybe you'd like it, being a reporter. The advice of a friend. I'm saving the heel for you, lovely girl. It's the best part. Come on out here. Weary of prodigies who bit their hands and gyred around parlor chairs spouting impossible sums, dust rising from the oriental carpets beneath their stamping feet. Ed Punch talked out of the middle of his mouth. While he talked he examined Quoyle, noticed the cheap tweed jacket the size of a horse blanket, fingernails that looked regularly held to a grindstone.

He smelled submission in Quoyle, guessed he was butter of fair spreading consistency. Quoyle's own eyes roved to a water-stained engraving on the wall. He saw a grainy face, eyes like glass eggs, a fringe of hairs rising from under the collar and cascading over its starched rim. Was it Punch's grandfather in the chipped frame? He wondered about ancestors.

We run upbeat stories with a community slant. There was always a self-help quiz -- "Are You a Breakfast Alcoholic? He'll break you in. Get your assignments from him. Al Catalog, face like a stubbled bun, slick mouth, ticked the back of his fingernail down the assignment list. His glance darted away from the back of Quoyle's chin, hammer on a nail. Down at the elemennary school. Whyn't you take that tonight? Sit in the little chairs. Write down everything you hear, type it up. Take a recorder, you want.

Show me the piece in the A. Lemme see it before you give it on to that black son of a bitch on the copy desk.

Quoyle at the back of the meeting, writing on his pad. Went home, typed and retyped all night at the kitchen table.

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In the morning, eyes circled by rings, nerved on coffee, he went to the newsroom. Waited for Al Catalog. Ed Punch, always the first through the door, slid into his office like an eel into the rock. Feature-page man swinging a bag of coconut doughnuts; tall Chinese woman with varnished hair; elderly circulation man with arms like hawsers; two women from layout; photo editor, yesterday's shirt all underarm stains. Quoyle at his desk pinching his chin, his head down, pretending to correct his article.

It was eleven pages long. At ten o'clock, Partridge. Red suspenders and a linen shirt. He nodded and patted his way across the newsroom, stuck his head in Punch's crevice, winked at Quoyle, settled into the copy desk slot in front of his terminal. Partridge knew a thousand things, that wet ropes held greater weight, why a hard-boiled egg spun more readily than a raw. Eyes half closed, head tipped back in a light trance, he could cite baseball statistics as the ancients unreeled The Iliad.

He reshaped banal prose, scraped the mold off Jimmy Breslin imitations. Was on the job. Read for a few seconds, lifted his face to the fluorescent light. Al saw it he'd tell Punch to get rid of you.

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You got to rewrite this. Show you what's wrong. They say reporters can be made out of anything. This activity involves completion of sentences using the above words: The doctor found that there was an imbalance in his diet and he was consuming far too much salt and sugar. The area south of the port was made up of mud and reeds and was quite desolate except for the cry of birds.

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The American soldiers went in to many Iraqi homes looking for militants but it was clear to impartial observers that their actions were only exacerbating the situation in the city. The whale had beached itself near to the island and the lifeboat crews and coastal authorities did everything they could to get it back in the water. The trains were full of football fans and when they arrived in Newcastle they disgorged a huge and overexcited crowd on to the streets of the city.