CSET 1 MCS AND CR Question with Verified
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CR1. Explain the setting and characterization of an excerpt. The short story is "Mrs.
Dutta writes a letter" It was about a woman who moved in with her son and hasn't been
able to sleep, even though she had a new comfortable mattress that her son bought for
her.
WHEN the alarm goes off at 5:00 A.M., buzzing like a trapped wasp, Mrs. Dutta has
been lying awake for quite a while. She still has difficulty sleeping on the Perma Rest
mattress that Sagar and Shyamoli, her son and daughter-in-law, have bought specially
for her, though she has had it now for two months. It is too American-soft, unlike the
reassuringly solid copra ticking she used at home. But this is home now, she reminds
herself. She reaches hurriedly to turn off the alarm, but in the dark her fingers get
confused among the knobs, and the electric clock falls with a thud to the floor. Its angry
metallic call vibrates through the walls of her room, and she is sure it will wake
everyone.
She yanks frantically at the wire until she feels it give, and in the abrupt silence that
follows she hears herself breathing, a sound harsh and uneven and full of guilt.
Shayamolli, or Molli, who has become as American as her surroundings expects her mother
in law to do the same — she expects Mrs. Dutta’s religious beliefs and habits to be let go and
to assimilate to the new land.
Additionally, the language used by the author illustrates a juxtaposition between life in India
vs America. In America, everything is “American-soft” like the mattress Sagar gave her vs.
the “solid copra” she used in India or the “metal tongue cleaner” from India vs America
toothbrushes with soft bristles.
,In America, life is portrayed as too soft and almost very cookie cutter like. There is little
interaction between people, the streets are quiet, isolated, and “not a single soul” in sight,
whereas in India, Mrs. Dutta remembers is to be bustling with people, vegetable vendors, and
knife sharpeners and people would visit for tea and conversation daily. America seems very
polished and when she received a picture of her grandchildren pictured in a “charming scene”
wearing ruffle white clothing and a bow tie, the image was of two obedient and loving
children but after her move to America, she found them to be a disappointment due to their
lack of respect to elders and inability to converse with her
To an outsider, like Mrs. Dutta, America may seem like a very desirable place to live with the
latest technology like washing machines with “gleaming knobs” instead of using river rocks.
And in India, the land is described with some harshness, like knife-sharpeners in the streets,
or her metal-tongue scraper, however, Mrs. Dutta seems to prefer the comfort she had in
India. (368 words)
CR2. 6th grade spelling: mischief/mischeef, rejoice/rejoyce, combination/combination (I
forgot the other ones)6th-grade spelling test
-Mischief/Mischeef- diphthong
-Rejoice/Rejoyce- diphthong
-mechanical/macanical Consonant-Digraph
-immediately/imedietly-Diphthong
-Combination/Combination
-Pleasure/Pleasure
-Remembrance/Remembri in nce
, In this 6th-grade spelling test the student demonstrated that they are in the transitional
spelling stage and has issues with diphthongs and digraphs. In the transitional spelling stage,
students write using invented spelling but have an understanding of most word patterns such
as prefixes, suffixes, consonants, and plurals. For example, this is shown when the student
misspelled the words rejoice for rejoyce and mischief for mischeef. In this stage they
demonstrated using prefixes such as re and mis however when it came to syllabicating with
diphthongs the student struggled to determine which vowel pattern was used. They then
invented their own spelling of the words using their understanding of phonemes such as the
oi sound sounding similar to oy and ie sounding similar to ee. Lastly, the student is in the
transitional stage because they spell most of the words correctly such as when they spell
combinations, however, they can have some issues with less common patterns.
CR3: TWO Developments of the Reconstruction Era, choose one and it’s influence.
One of the developments of the reconstruction era was the ratification of the 13th
amendment. On December 6, 1865, the 13th amendment made slavery and involuntary
servitude illegal, except in the case of incarceration.When slaves found freedom many
African Americans set out to find relatives they had not seen in years. Families had often
been separated by slave traders, many African Americans also thought out new professions
hoping to escape being forced to work in the fields of their former owners. Large numbers of
freedmen moved away from the predominantly white areas they had been enslaved, into areas
with larger African American populations. Others moved to test their newfound freedom,
celebrating the fact they could travel freely for the first time (without papers from their
former owner). This freedom to travel without permission was the first step in a long road
toward legal equality for African Americans.In the Reconstruction Era south, the liberty to
travel was the very symbol of freedom for many. In response to criticisms that the
Emancipation Proclamation would be only a temporary solution to slavery as it did not apply
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CR1. Explain the setting and characterization of an excerpt. The short story is "Mrs.
Dutta writes a letter" It was about a woman who moved in with her son and hasn't been
able to sleep, even though she had a new comfortable mattress that her son bought for
her.
WHEN the alarm goes off at 5:00 A.M., buzzing like a trapped wasp, Mrs. Dutta has
been lying awake for quite a while. She still has difficulty sleeping on the Perma Rest
mattress that Sagar and Shyamoli, her son and daughter-in-law, have bought specially
for her, though she has had it now for two months. It is too American-soft, unlike the
reassuringly solid copra ticking she used at home. But this is home now, she reminds
herself. She reaches hurriedly to turn off the alarm, but in the dark her fingers get
confused among the knobs, and the electric clock falls with a thud to the floor. Its angry
metallic call vibrates through the walls of her room, and she is sure it will wake
everyone.
She yanks frantically at the wire until she feels it give, and in the abrupt silence that
follows she hears herself breathing, a sound harsh and uneven and full of guilt.
Shayamolli, or Molli, who has become as American as her surroundings expects her mother
in law to do the same — she expects Mrs. Dutta’s religious beliefs and habits to be let go and
to assimilate to the new land.
Additionally, the language used by the author illustrates a juxtaposition between life in India
vs America. In America, everything is “American-soft” like the mattress Sagar gave her vs.
the “solid copra” she used in India or the “metal tongue cleaner” from India vs America
toothbrushes with soft bristles.
,In America, life is portrayed as too soft and almost very cookie cutter like. There is little
interaction between people, the streets are quiet, isolated, and “not a single soul” in sight,
whereas in India, Mrs. Dutta remembers is to be bustling with people, vegetable vendors, and
knife sharpeners and people would visit for tea and conversation daily. America seems very
polished and when she received a picture of her grandchildren pictured in a “charming scene”
wearing ruffle white clothing and a bow tie, the image was of two obedient and loving
children but after her move to America, she found them to be a disappointment due to their
lack of respect to elders and inability to converse with her
To an outsider, like Mrs. Dutta, America may seem like a very desirable place to live with the
latest technology like washing machines with “gleaming knobs” instead of using river rocks.
And in India, the land is described with some harshness, like knife-sharpeners in the streets,
or her metal-tongue scraper, however, Mrs. Dutta seems to prefer the comfort she had in
India. (368 words)
CR2. 6th grade spelling: mischief/mischeef, rejoice/rejoyce, combination/combination (I
forgot the other ones)6th-grade spelling test
-Mischief/Mischeef- diphthong
-Rejoice/Rejoyce- diphthong
-mechanical/macanical Consonant-Digraph
-immediately/imedietly-Diphthong
-Combination/Combination
-Pleasure/Pleasure
-Remembrance/Remembri in nce
, In this 6th-grade spelling test the student demonstrated that they are in the transitional
spelling stage and has issues with diphthongs and digraphs. In the transitional spelling stage,
students write using invented spelling but have an understanding of most word patterns such
as prefixes, suffixes, consonants, and plurals. For example, this is shown when the student
misspelled the words rejoice for rejoyce and mischief for mischeef. In this stage they
demonstrated using prefixes such as re and mis however when it came to syllabicating with
diphthongs the student struggled to determine which vowel pattern was used. They then
invented their own spelling of the words using their understanding of phonemes such as the
oi sound sounding similar to oy and ie sounding similar to ee. Lastly, the student is in the
transitional stage because they spell most of the words correctly such as when they spell
combinations, however, they can have some issues with less common patterns.
CR3: TWO Developments of the Reconstruction Era, choose one and it’s influence.
One of the developments of the reconstruction era was the ratification of the 13th
amendment. On December 6, 1865, the 13th amendment made slavery and involuntary
servitude illegal, except in the case of incarceration.When slaves found freedom many
African Americans set out to find relatives they had not seen in years. Families had often
been separated by slave traders, many African Americans also thought out new professions
hoping to escape being forced to work in the fields of their former owners. Large numbers of
freedmen moved away from the predominantly white areas they had been enslaved, into areas
with larger African American populations. Others moved to test their newfound freedom,
celebrating the fact they could travel freely for the first time (without papers from their
former owner). This freedom to travel without permission was the first step in a long road
toward legal equality for African Americans.In the Reconstruction Era south, the liberty to
travel was the very symbol of freedom for many. In response to criticisms that the
Emancipation Proclamation would be only a temporary solution to slavery as it did not apply
