Topi ANSWER KEY Name: QUESTIONS Ontario Seondary Shool Literay Test (OSSLT) Diagnosti Assessment Booklet St. Ignatius of Loyola Note: You are not permitted to use ellphones, audio- or videoreording devies, digital musi players or e-mail or text-messaging devies during the assessment. TD - Development C- Conventions M C - Making Connetions - I EImpliit - Expliit Begin the test one you have followed all of your teaher s instrutions.
Setion II I Writing page 1 Provide your answers on the Santron Card. Multiple-Choie Questions 1 Whih sentene would be the best to onlude TD the following paragraph? It is important to bring your vehile to an immediate but safe stop when an emergeny vehile approahes with its lights or siren on. Reat quikly. Use your signals to alert other drivers of your intent to pull over. This will ensure your own and their safety. a b Driving an emergeny-servie vehile an be hallenging. Emergeny-servie personnel require speialized safety training. Different emergeny vehiles will have different-oloured flashing lights. d Always be prepared to lear the road safely for emergeny vehiles. 2 Choose the sentene that is written orretly. a Many ommunities in Ontario elebrate the fall season with a fair. 3 Choose the option that best ombines the information in the following sentenes. TD a b Oil Springs is a town in Ontario. Oil Springs was one alled Blak Creek. The town s name was hanged in 1858 when oil was disovered there. Oil Springs is the name of a town also alled Blak Creek, Ontario, and oil was disovered there in 1858, so its name was hanged. Blak Creek, an Ontario town, was one alled Oil Springs, but oil was disovered there in 1858, so it hanged its name. The town of Oil Springs is loated in Ontario, but it was alled Blak Creek after oil was disovered there in 1858. d One alled Blak Creek, the town of Oil Springs, Ontario, hanged its name in 1858 when oil was disovered there. 4 Whih of the following sentenes is written orretly? C b d Demolition derbies often attrats a large and enthusiasti audiene. Some fairs also has midway rides and agriultural demonstrations. By far, the best thing about fall fairs are the deliious food you an try. a b Volunteer experienes looks good on a résumé. Volunteering may even helps with areer deisions. Volunteering is a good way to learning responsibility. d Volunteering helps develop good timemanagement skills.
II Setion Reading page 2 Read the seletion below and answer the questions on the Santron and the following lined page. Welome bak, Keewatin: Last Great Lakes steamship omes home Skyline International Development announed in Otober 2011 that it was purhasing the 106-metre-long steamship S.S. Keewatin and returning her to Port MNioll, in the Ontario township of Tay. The vessel, whih had been doked in Saugatuk, Mihigan, sine 1967, was one the rown jewel of the mighty Great Lakes fleet of steamships operated by the Canadian Paifi Railway. The Sottish-built S.S. Keewatin was launhed on July 6, 1907. It ould arry 288 passengers and a rew of 86, and ruised at a top speed of 14 knots (nautial miles per hour). The steamship and its sister ship S.S. Assiniboia were the first Great Lakes vessels equipped with radar. For almost 60 years, the Keewatin ferried passengers between Port MNioll, on Georgian Bay, and Port Arthur (now Thunder Bay) on Lake Superior. They travelled in style: stately features inluded a grand stairase, an elegant Edwardian-era dining saloon, hand-painted Italian glass and oak trim throughout. However, strit fire odes and faster alternatives made the wood-abined vessels obsolete by the mid- 1960s. 1 2 3 Sine retirement in 1966, the Keewatin has served as a maritime museum. After being restored to its early 20th-entury grandeur, it will ontinue operating as a museum from a new mooring for many years to ome. The adjaent waterfront park, with a replia of Port MNioll s original train station and its English-style gardens, is an additional attration. We are thrilled to return the world s last Edwardian passenger steamship to the people of Tay Township and Canada, said Gil Blutrih, Skyline s hairman and president. 4 5
II Setion Reading (ontinued) page 3 Provide your answers on the Santron Card. Multiple-Choie Questions 5 M What is suggested by the phrase rown jewel in paragraph 1? I What organizational pattern links paragraphs 3 and 4? a The Keewatin was the finest example of its type. b d 6 E a b The Keewatin was the largest steamship on the Great Lakes. The Keewatin was the last Sottish-built passenger steamship. The Keewatin was the longest serving steamship on the Great Lakes. What word is losest in meaning to stately as used in paragraph 3? essential advaned innovative d impressive a pro and on b past to present d I a b general to speifi order of importane What is the purpose of the quote used in paragraph 5? to offer fatual support to provide an explanation to summarize the main idea d to introdue a ontrasting view 7 E a b What happened to the Keewatin in 1966? It was restored. It was returned to Sotland. It was removed from servie. d It was purhased by Port MNioll. A Open-Response Question me Why might the Keewatin have been a popular ship for travellers? Use speifi details from the seletion to explain your answer.
Setion II Reading (ontinued) page 4 Read the question on the previous page before providing your answer here. Welome bak, Keewatin: Last Great Lakes steamship omes home Open-Response Answer 6 A Why might the Keewatinhavebeenapopularshipfortravellers?Usespeifidetailsfromtheseletion to explain your answer. M
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Code 10 The response indiates minimal reading omprehension. It provides a reason (the ship has stately features) why the Keewatin might have been a popular ship with no supporting details. 4
Code 20 The response indiates some reading omprehension. It provides a reason (all the great features) why the Keewatin might have been a popular ship supported by vague details (dining saloon, oak trim, and the feeling of wealth). 5
Code 30 The response indiates onsiderable reading omprehension. It provides a reason (the best of its kind; rown jewel ) why the Keewatin might have been a popular ship supported by speifi details (a grand stair ase, an Edwardian-era dining saloon, and hand-painted Italian glass and oak trim details). The onnetion between the reason, the details and the travellers experiene (popular with travellers beause of its beauty) is lear. 6
Setion III Reading page 5 Read the seletion below and answer the questions on the Santron Card. Energy Usage in Ontario, 2013 More than $11 billion was invested in Ontario s energy networks between 2003 and 2013, whih has made Ontario a world leader in energy tehnology. The Green Button Initiative allows people to use phone apps and Web sites to examine and monitor their home energy use. Household Energy Usage Households are beoming more effiient, and this trend is predited to ontinue. Ontario s energy use has hanged substantially in the last deade. As our eonomy ontinues to grow, our homes, businesses and industries are beoming more effiient. Residential use of energy alone has fallen sine 1990. Units of Power 1 kilowatt (kw) = 1000 watts 1 megawatt (MW) = 1000 kilowatts 1 terawatt (TW) = 1 billion kilowatts Ontario s Eletriity Prodution and Conservation,* 2013 Wind 3% Bioenergy 1% Solar 1% Conservation* 5% Hydro 22% Gas 10% Coal 2% Nulear 56% * Conservation refers to energy that has been saved and then put bak into the system. How Muh Energy Is in a Kilowatt Hour (kwh)? Eletriity helps us perform everyday tasks suh as lighting our homes and ooking meals. Here s a quik guide to what one kilowatt hour of eletriity will allow you to do: Surf the Web for 5 hours Iron 11 shirts Bake 1 ake The typial Ontario household uses between 800 and 1000 kwh a month. DID YOU KNOW? Eletriity onsumption does vary by appliane model and use. You an use a plug-in energy meter to find out exatly how muh energy your applianes use.
Setion III Reading (ontinued) page 6 Provide your answers on the Santron Card. Multiple-Choie Questions 1 E a b What trend does the Household Energy Usage graph demonstrate? no hange sudden hange gradual hange d 0 unpreditable hange 13 What is the purpose of the asterisk (*) beside I the word Conservation in the upper-right box? a to add emphasis to the heading b to diret the reader to the graph to link a word to its explanation d to separate the heading from the year 11 What information is provided in the DID YOU 14 Why does the seletion inlude information I KNOW? setion at the bottom of the page? I about surfing the Web, baking a ake and ironing shirts? a Energy usage is linked to onsumer purhases. b Energy usage varies aording to the size of the household. a b It ompares renewable soures of energy. It shows how to redue energy onsumption. d Energy usage per household is typially onstant from month to month. Energy usage depends primarily on the time of day when the appliane is used. It ranks household ativities in order of importane. d It provides real-life examples to explain energy onsumption. 12 Whih statement desribes the organization of the pie hart? me a The setions are ordered alphabetially. b All soures of renewable energy are grouped together. d All soures of fossil fuel energy are grouped together. The setions are ordered lokwise from largest to smallest perentage. 15 Whih graphi feature of this seletion ould I demonstrate whether the Green Button Initiative has been suessful? a the perentages in the pie hart b the line in the Household Energy Usage graph d the bars in the Household Energy Usage graph the number of shirts in the How Muh Energy Is in a Kilowatt Hour (kwh)? text box
Setion IV Writing a News Report page 7 Provide your answer on the following lined page. Shool team qualifies for finals B TD Task: Write a news report based on the headline and piture above. You will have to make up the fats and information to answer some or all of the following questions: Who? What? Where? When? Why? How? You must relate your news report to both the headline and the piture. Purpose and Audiene: to report on an event for the readers of a newspaper Length: The lined spae provided on the following page for your written work indiates the approximate length of the writing expeted.
Setion IV Writing a News Report page 8 Read the question on the previous page before providing your answer here. B TD Shool team qualies for nals
EQAO OSSLT Marh 2015 Soring Guide for Long Writing Topi Development Setion IV News Report Code Blank Desriptor The page is blank with nothing written or drawn in the spae provided. Illegible The response is illegible or irrelevant to the prompt. Off topi Code 10 Code 20 Code 30 Code 40 Code 50 Code 60 The response is off topi. The response is related to headline and/or photo but is not a news report. OR The response is a news report related to the headline and/or photo. It identifies an event, but provides no supporting details, or provides details that are unrelated to the event. There is no evidene of organization. The response is related to headline and/or photo but only partly in the form of a news report. OR The response is a news report related to the headline and/or photo, but the fous on an event is unlear or inonsistent. There are insuffiient supporting details: too few or repetitious. There is limited evidene of organization. The response is a news report related to the headline and photo with a lear fous on an event. There are insuffiient and/or vague supporting details or the onnetion of the details to the event is not always lear. There is evidene of organization, but lapses distrat from the overall ommuniation. The response is a news report related to the headline and photo with a lear and onsistent fous on an event. There are suffiient supporting details; however, only some are speifi. The organization is mehanial and any lapses do not distrat from the overall ommuniation. The response is a news report related to the headline and photo with a lear and onsistent fous on an event. There are suffiient speifi supporting details to develop the news report. The organization is logial. The response is a news report related to the headline and photo with a lear and onsistent fous on an event. There are suffiient speifi supporting details, whih are thoughtfully hosen to develop the news report. The organization is oherent demonstrating a thoughtful progression of ideas.
EQAO OSSLT Marh 2015 Soring Guide for Long Writing Topi Development Setion IV News Report Code 10 Annotation: The response is a news report related to the headline and/or photo. It identifies an event (On Marh 25 th, 2015, (insert shool name) Highshool qualified for the Basketball tornemin), but provides no supporting details.
EQAO OSSLT Marh 2015 Soring Guide for Long Writing Topi Development Setion IV News Report Code 20 Annotation: The response is related to the headline and/or photo (On marh 26 th 2015, the girls Volleyball team have qualified for the finals after 10 years.), but only partly in the form of a news report. It lapses into a onversational narrative (Some of you may ask how the team got this far, well as you an tell in the team photo by the expressions on their fae and the exitement, they re a great team). It onludes with an announement (On Saturday at 12:00 P.M. We better see you there supporting your team (insert Masot)!) about a newsworthy event.
EQAO OSSLT Marh 2015 Soring Guide for Long Writing Topi Development Setion IV News Report Code 30 Annotation: The response has a lear fous on an event (yesterday, the (insert shool name) o-ed volleyball team beat (insert shool name) high shool to advane to the Finals.). Supporting details are insuffiient (They will be hosting the finals at (insert shool name)) and vague (The (insert shool name) volleyball team has worked very hard to get here.). The added quote does not advane the report and is also vague ( This has been our goal we just need to finish it. ). There is evidene of organization in the use of paragraphs, however, their brevity and lak of transitions results in a list-like report. The onnetion between the event ( the finals) and the details (There is alot riding on this upoming game ) is not always lear.
EQAO OSSLT Marh 2015 Soring Guide for Long Writing Topi Development Setion IV News Report Code 40 Shool Name Shool Name Town Annotation: There is a lear and onsistent fous on an event (On April 3 rd, 2014 at (insert shool name) High Shool, the mixed team won against (insert shool name) at their basketball tournament to guarantee their spot in the finals.). There are suffiient supporting details. Some are speifi ((insert shool name) High will be the team to beat; (insert shool name) High has won regionals for the last seven years; The final game has been set for April 30 th in (insert town)), while others, inluding the quotes, are vague ( I was amazed at how well our team did this year. They have worked together and earned their spot at finals. ; a great aomplishment for the team and the shool). The organization is mehanial. The report moves from fats about the event, to a reation quote, to a repetition of the desire to beat (insert town).
EQAO OSSLT Marh 2015 Soring Guide for Long Writing Topi Development Setion IV News Report Code 50 Annotation: There is a lear and onsistent fous on an event (On Marh 25 th, 2015 the girls at the (insert shool masot) Basketball Squad ). There are suffiient and speifi supporting details ( won their zone qualifiations at townhall. With a sore of 5-0 these girls dominated; EBS is moving on to the finals, represented their team with strength, endurane and good sportsmanship) that develop the fous of the news report. Some details extend the fous of the news report (they will need more fous; With the town still buzzing the pressure to ome out on top is at its strongest66). The inlusion of quotes ( With the support of our town, family and Coah Rob, we will be hampions. ) ontributes to the reader s understanding of the importane of the event. The organization is logial as is evidened by the effetive use of paragraphing and the logial relationship between the fatual details and the insertion of supporting quotations.
EQAO OSSLT Marh 2015 Soring Guide for Long Writing Topi Development Setion IV News Report Code 60 Annotation: There is a lear and onsistent fous on an event (Saturday Marh 11 th, the day of the (insert City), Ontario Regional Basketball Playoffs). The news report is developed with thoughtful and speifi supporting details ( one of the provine s first o-ed basketball teams; after- shool pratie gravity-defying shots; the end sore was 14-8; represents true gender equality). Organization is oherent with a lear introdution and onlusion and logial paragraphing. There is a sophistiated progression of ideas from general fats to speifi details about the team s sarifies and ultimate game play suess. Eah quotation is effetively plaed to add additional information ( giving up soial ativities; girls and boys an both be great at sports ).
EQAO OSSLT Marh 2015 Soring Guide for Long Writing Conventions Setion IV News Report Code Code 10 Code 20 Code 30 Code 40 Desriptor There is insuffiient evidene to assess the use of onventions. OR Errors in onventions interfere with ommuniation. Errors in onventions distrat from ommuniation. Errors in onventions do not distrat from ommuniation. Control of onventions is evident in written work.
EQAO OSSLT Marh 2015 Soring Guide for Long Writing Conventions Setion IV News Report Code 10 Annotation: This response provides insuffiient evidene to assess onventions. The response is fewer than 30 words.
EQAO OSSLT Marh 2015 Soring Guide for Long Writing Conventions Setion IV News Report Code 20 Annotation: Errors distrat from ommuniation. Reading rhythm is onstantly interrupted by the following: Errors in sentene struture (not only me work hard out there, it was the whole team; That they took their hamingtion and bring it bak to shool) Syntax errors (Their win was a big game hanger to the shool spirit it has now; Coming to getter High fiving at one) Inorret verb forms (of not get [getting] there; They have work [worked] so hard) Missing words (Finailly [finally], quitive [quoted], aptin [aptain], hamington [hampionship]
EQAO OSSLT Marh 2015 Soring Guide for Long Writing Conventions Setion IV News Report Code 30 Annotation: Errors in sentene struture (This team is more than pleasure to teah, now lets go ), missing apostrophe (lets), spelling (paided, spirt, attidude) and verb form (hopes to steal) are typial of a first draft and do not distrat from ommuniation.
EQAO OSSLT Marh 2015 Soring Guide for Long Writing Conventions Setion IV News Report Code 40 Annotation: Control of onventions is evident in sentene struture and orret puntuation. There are a few minor errors suh as a omma splie (The spirit is unbelievable, we all want the team ) but overall, this response demonstrates onsistent and orret use of onventions.