1. Below the organizer, write a blog post to your friends comparing and contrasting the text medium and the audio medium of “The Tell-Tale Heart,” analyzing how the pace, character, and mood varied within each medium and how these differences affected you. Use the ideas in your organizer to write your post. Include all parts: • Part one: Introduction sentence—Write the title, author, and your claim. • Part two: Body—Write about how the pace, character, and mood affected you in each medium. • Part three: Conclusion sentence—Restate your ideas about your claim. 2. Save your document to your computer, and in the Assessments Area, attach your document to 01.05 Comparing and Contrasting Mediums

Read the excerpt from "mother tongue." those tests were constructed around items like fill-in-the-blank sentence completion, such as “even though tom was mary thought he was ” and the correct answer always seemed to be the most bland combinations of thoughts, for example, “even though tom was foolish, mary thought he was ridiculous.” well, according to my mother, there were very few limitations as to what tom could have been and what mary might have thought of him. so i never did well on tests like that. how does tan build a central idea of her story in the excerpt? tan discusses the types of questions on achievement tests to support the idea that the tests limit students’ ability to write well. tan explains a question on a language achievement test to support the idea that the tests should include more interesting content. tan gives an example of her experience with achievement tests to support the idea that they are not always accurate measures of language ability. tan considers how her mother might answer a question on a test to support the idea that nonstandard english limits a person’s ability to communicate.