Teacher Guide for FAST-R Passage: Eleven

FAST-R: Formative Assessments of Student Thinking in Reading

Fiction
At a Glance
Approximate Difficulty Index: Considerate . . . . . . . . . . . . Challenging
Grade Range: 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Structure:
Genre: Fiction Purpose:
Topic: An embarassing moment on her eleventh birthday Richness:
causes Rachel to reflect on growing up. Relationships:
Author: Sandra Cisneros Vocabulary:
Source: Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories (1991) Style:
Special Note: used on MCAS 2004 retest
Fountas & Pinnell Rating: Z
Lexile Measure: 900L

Sometimes even the most special kind of day can be ruined by some-
thing unexpected. Read the following story in which Sandra Cisneros
describes such a day in the life of a girl named Rachel. Richness, Purpose: This passage explores the difficult
lessons eleven-year-old Rachel learns about growing
Eleven up, feeling misunderstood, and being disrespected and
by Sandra Cisneros
powerless. Her conception of how we each carry all our
1 What they dont understand about birthdays and what they prior ages and experiences inside us like little wooden
never tell you is that when youre eleven, youre also ten, and dolls that fit one inside the other is fairly sophisticated.
nine, and eight, and seven, and six, and five, and four, and three
See especially: Questions 1, 2, 4, 10
and two and one. And when you wake up on your eleventh
birthday you expect to feel eleven, but you dont. You open your
eyes and everythings just like yesterday, only its today. And
you dont feel eleven at all. You feel like youre still ten. And you
areunderneath the year that makes you eleven. Style: Much of the passageincluding the first four
paragraphstakes the reader inside the narrators
2 Like some days you might say something stupid, and thats thoughts, rather than narrating external action. However,
the part of you thats still ten. Or maybe some days you might the uncomplicated vocabulary and syntax of the child
need to sit on your mamas lap because youre scared, and thats narrator make the rich concepts accessible.
the part of you thats five. And maybe one day when youre all
See especially: Questions 1, 2, 3, 4
grown up maybe you will need to cry like youre three, and thats
okay. Thats what I tell Mama when shes sad and needs to cry.
Maybe shes feeling three.
3 Because the way you grow old is kind of like an onion or
like the rings inside a tree trunk or like my little wooden dolls
that fit one inside the other, each year inside the next one. Thats
how being eleven years old is.
4 You dont feel eleven. Not right away. It takes a few days,
weeks even, sometimes even months before you say Eleven when
they ask you. And you dont feel smart eleven, not until youre
almost twelve. Thats the way it is.
5 Only today I wish I didnt have only eleven years rattling Structure: After beginning with Rachels reflections on
inside me like pennies in a tin Band-Aid box. Today I wish I growing up, the passage describes a single mornings
was one hundred and two instead of eleven because if I was one events in chronological order. Markers in 5 such as
hundred and two Id have known what to say when Mrs. Price Only today I wish... and Today I wish... signal the
put the red sweater on my desk. I wouldve known how to tell transition from reflection to action.
her it wasnt mine instead of just sitting there with that look on
my face and nothing coming out of my mouth.
6 Whose is this? Mrs. Price says, and she holds the red
sweater up in the air for all the class to see. Whose? Its been
sitting in the coatroom for a month. Continued on next page

FAST-R: Formative Assessments of Student Thinking in Reading. The passage text by Sandra Cisneros is from Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories. Copyright 1991 by Sandra Cisneros. Some
questions were drawn or adapted from the G10 MCAS Retest 2004 test. All other materials are Copyright 2007 by the Boston Plan for Excellence.
 7 Not mine, says everybody. Not me.
8 It has to belong to somebody, Mrs. Price keeps saying, Style: Cisneros uses vivid, specific, sensory details and
but nobody can remember. Its an ugly sweater with red plastic figurative language that evokes a childs perspective to
buttons and a collar and sleeves all stretched out like you could help the reader understand Rachels feelings.
use it for a jump rope. Its maybe a thousand years old and even See especially: Questions 4, 6, 9
if it belonged to me I wouldnt say so.
9 Maybe because Im skinny, maybe because she doesnt
like me, that stupid Sylvia Saldvar says, I think it belongs to
Rachel. An ugly sweater like that, all raggedy and old, but Mrs.
Price believes her. Mrs. Price takes the sweater and puts it right
on my desk, but when I open my mouth nothing comes out.
10 Thats not, I dont, youre notNot mine, I finally say in
a little voice that was maybe me when I was four.
11 Of course its yours, Mrs. Price says. I remember you
wearing it once. Because shes older and the teacher, shes right Relationships: In addition to reflecting on how each
and Im not. of us relates to our prior ages, Rachel notes the effect
that age and authority have on the relationship between
12 Not mine, not mine, not mine, but Mrs. Price is already
teacher and students.
turning to page thirty-two, and math problem number four. I
dont know why but all of a sudden Im feeling sick inside, like
the part of me thats three wants to come out of my eyes, only
I squeeze them shut tight and bite down on my teeth real hard
and try to remember that today I am eleven, eleven. Mama is
making a cake for me tonight, and when Papa comes home
everybody will sing Happy birthday, happy birthday to you.
13 But when the sick feeling goes away and I open my eyes, the Style: Once again, Cisneros uses one carefully chosen
red sweaters still sitting there like a big red mountain. I move simile and a series of vivid details to make Rachels
the red sweater to the corner of my desk with my ruler. I move feelings about the sweater clear.
my pencil and books and eraser as far from it as possible. I even See especially: Questions 6
move my chair a little to the right. Not mine, not mine, not
mine.
14 In my head Im thinking how long till lunchtime, how long
till I can take the red sweater and throw it over the schoolyard
fence, or leave it hanging on a parking meter, or bunch it up
into a little ball and toss it across the alley. Except when math
period ends Mrs. Price says loud and in front of everybody,
Now, Rachel, thats enough, because she sees that Ive shoved
the red sweater to the tippy-tip corner of my desk and its hang-
ing all over the edge like a waterfall, but I dont care.
15 Rachel, Mrs. Price says. She says it like shes getting mad.
You put that sweater on right now and no more nonsense.
16 But its not
17 Now! Mrs. Price says.
18 This is when I wish I wasnt eleven, because all the years
inside of meten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two,
and oneare pushing at the back of my eyes when I put one
arm through one sleeve of the sweater that smells like cottage
cheese, and then the other arm through the other and stand
there with my arms apart like if the sweater hurts me and it
does, all itchy and full of germs that arent even mine.

FAST-R: Formative Assessments of Student Thinking in Reading. The passage text by Sandra Cisneros is from Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories. Copyright 1991 by Sandra Cisneros. Some
questions were drawn or adapted from the G10 MCAS Retest 2004 test. All other materials are Copyright 2007 by the Boston Plan for Excellence.
 19 Thats when everything Ive been holding in since this morn-
ing, since when Mrs. Price put the sweater on my desk, finally
lets go, and all of a sudden Im crying in front of everybody. I
wish I was invisible but Im not. Im eleven and its my birth-
day today and Im crying like Im three in front of everybody. I
put my head down on the desk and bury my face in my stupid
clown-sweater arms. My face all hot and spit coming out of my
mouth because I cant stop the little animal noises from coming
out of me, until there arent any more tears left in my eyes, and
its just my body shaking like when you have the hiccups, and
my whole head hurts like when you drink milk too fast.
20 But the worst part is right before the bell rings for lunch. Structure: The narration of the embarassing incident
That stupid Phyllis Lopez, who is even dumber than Sylvia with the sweater lasts from 5 to 20; the passage then
Saldvar, says she remembers the red sweater is hers! I take it takes a step back and connects to the ideas from the
off right away and give to her, only Mrs. Price pretends like beginning.
everythings okay. The framingnarratingreframing structure of this
21 Today Im eleven. Theres a cake Mamas making for tonight, passage could make it an excellent choice for a craft
and when Papa comes home from work well eat it. Therell be mini-lesson on developing a scene with vivid details.
candles and presents and everybody will sing Happy birthday, See especially: Question 10
happy birthday to you, Rachel, only its too late.
22 Im eleven today. Im eleven, ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five,
four, three, two, and one, but I wish I was one hundred and
two. I wish I was anything but eleven, because I want today to
be far away already, far away like a runaway balloon, like a tiny o
in the sky, so tiny-tiny you have to close your eyes to see it.

Spotlight On: Sandra Cisneros Open Response Prompt:

Explain what Rachel means by this statement from
Sandra Cisneros was born in 1954 and raised in Chicagos
3: Because the way you grow old is kind of like
South Side, the only daughter in a family with six sons.
an onion or the rings inside a tree trunk or like
The family traveled often between Chicago and her fathers
my little wooden dolls that fit one inside the other,
hometown in Mexico.
each year inside the next one. Use relevant and
While studying writing at the University of Iowa Writers specific information from the story to support
Workshop in 1978, Cisneros realized that her perspectives your answer.
as a Chicana (Mexican-American woman) were not Ideas for Connected Writing Activities:
represented in mainstream American literature.
Write an essay describing your most embarassing
She explores the cultural conflicts, challenges of growing moment. Use vivid details to bring your
up poor, and sense of alienation she experienced in her experience to life for the reader.
first and most popular book, The House on Mango Street. Write a story from the point of view of someone
who is at least five years younger than you.
Take Rachels story and turn it into a poem.
Continue the story, describing what happened
when Rachel returned home at the end of her
school day.

FAST-R: Formative Assessments of Student Thinking in Reading. The passage text by Sandra Cisneros is from Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories. Copyright 1991 by Sandra Cisneros. Some
questions were drawn or adapted from the G10 MCAS Retest 2004 test. All other materials are Copyright 2007 by the Boston Plan for Excellence.
 Teacher Guide for FAST-R Passage: Eleven
FAST-R: Formative Assessments of Student Thinking in Reading
Fiction
The annotated answer key below highlights common reasons students might choose each answer, and the sidebar gives more
insight into the question types, to help you understand patterns of student responses. Always make time to follow up with students
in conferences or small groups to probe their thinking, teach in response to patterns, and help them apply effective reading and
thinking strategies to their everyday reading.
Note: You may find it helpful to refer to the Types and Levels of Questions on FAST-R sheet from your teacher resource
folder as you examine your students responses. The icon in the right-hand column, below, corresponds to that sheets more
detailed explanations of the kinds of thinking each type of question asks of readers.

1. In the story, Rachel thinks of herself as being ages ten, nine, eight, and so on. MI1: Determine implicit
What does this suggest to the reader about Rachel? meaning from ideas in
A. She makes excuses for her poor behavior. (OOB) context
B. She is the product of everything that has happened to her.
C. She distracts herself when she feels unhappy. (OOP2 1-2)
D. She knows why birthdays are such joyful occasions. (OOB)

2. According to Rachel, the part of you thats five sometimes needs to FE1: Identify evidence
A. feel smart. (OOP2 4) explicitly stated in the text
B. sit on your mamas lap.
C. feel sad and cry. (OOP1 2)
D. suck your thumb. (OOB)

3. In paragraph 5, why does Rachel say that she wishes she was one hundred and MI1: Determine implicit
two instead of eleven? meaning from phrases in
A. She does not want to go to school anymore. (OOB) context
B. She wants to be a teacher when she grows up. (OOP2 11)
C. She is not allowed to do things that adults can do. (OOB)
D. She wishes she had more life experience.

4. Rachel compares growing old to FE1: Identify evidence

A. a tin Band-Aid box. (OOP2 5) explicitly stated in the text
B. a red sweater. (OOP2 5)
C. a big red mountain. (OOP2 13)
D. rings inside a tree trunk.

5. Rachels words in paragraph 10 contain an ellipsis (. . .). What is the author prob- MI5: Determine mean-
ably trying to show? ing by incorporating an
A. Rachel has some doubt about whether the sweater is hers. (OOP1 10) understanding of literary
B. Rachel is waiting for someone to claim the sweater. (OOP2) concepts
C. Rachel is remembering something that happened long ago. (OOB)
D. Rachel is unable to express herself to Mrs. Price.

FAST-R: Formative Assessments of Student Thinking in Reading. The passage text by Sandra Cisneros is from Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories. Copyright 1991 by Sandra Cisneros. Some
questions were drawn or adapted from the G10 MCAS Retest 2004 test. All other materials are Copyright 2007 by the Boston Plan for Excellence.
 Grades 6-9 Fiction Eleven

6. Read the sentence from paragraph 13 in the box below. MI1: Determine implicit
meaning from ideas in
But when the sick feeling goes away and I open my eyes, the red sweaters context
still sitting there like a big red mountain.

What does Rachel most likely mean by this statement?

A. The sweater is too large for her to wear. (OOP1)
B. She sees the situation with the sweater as an exciting challenge. (OOB)
C. The situation with the sweater makes her feel small and powerless.
D. All of her thoughts focus on how special the sweater is to her. (OOP2 13)

7. In paragraph 19, Rachel starts to cry because she is overwhelmed by feelings of MI2: Determine a single
A. embarrassment. implicit meaning from
B. anger. (OOP2) the total text
C. sadness. (OOP1 19)
D. joy. (OOB)

8. For Rachel, the worst part of her day is when FE2: Recognize the explicit
A. Mrs. Price puts the sweater on her desk. (OOP2 19) meaning from varied
B. Mrs. Price makes her wear the sweater. (OOP1 18) wording in the text
C. The bell rings for lunch. (OOP2 20)
D. Mrs. Price pretends like everything is okay.

9. What effect do sensory details and figurative language have on the story? MI5: Determine mean-
A. They add suspense to the story. (OOB) ing by incorporating an
B. They help the reader understand Rachels feelings. understanding of literary
C. They warn the reader not to believe everything Rachel says. (OOB) concepts
D. They give the story a lighthearted and casual tone. (OOP2 19)

10. Which of the following lines expresses the storys irony? MI5: Determine mean-
A. And when you wake up on your eleventh birthday you expect to feel ing by incorporating an
eleven, but you dont. (1) understanding of literary
B. I even move my chair a little to the right. (13) (OOP2) concepts
C. ... its like hanging all over the edge like a waterfall, but I dont care. (14)
(OOP1)
D. ... I put one arm through one sleeve of the sweater that smells like cottage
cheese ... (18) (OOP2)

FAST-R: Formative Assessments of Student Thinking in Reading. The passage text by Sandra Cisneros is from Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories. Copyright 1991 by Sandra Cisneros. Some
questions were drawn or adapted from the G10 MCAS Retest 2004 test. All other materials are Copyright 2007 by the Boston Plan for Excellence.
FAST-R Formative Assessments of Student Thinking in Reading
Name Eleven Fiction
+ Date Teacher/Class

Sometimes even the most special kind of day can be ruined by something unexpected. Read the
following story in which Sandra Cisneros describes such a day in the life of a girl named Rachel.

Eleven
From WOMAN HOLLERING CREEK by Sandra Cisneros
1 What they dont understand about birth- 3 Because the way you grow old is kind of
days and what they never tell you is that when like an onion or like the rings inside a tree
youre eleven, youre also ten, and nine, and trunk or like my little wooden dolls that fit
eight, and seven, and six, and five, and four, one inside the other, each year inside the next
and three and two and one. And when you one. Thats how being eleven years old is.
wake up on your eleventh birthday you expect 4 You dont feel eleven. Not right away. It
to feel eleven, but you dont. You open your takes a few days, weeks even, sometimes even
eyes and everythings just like yesterday, only months before you say Eleven when they ask
its today. And you dont feel eleven at all. You you. And you dont feel smart eleven, not
feel like youre still ten. And you areunder- until youre almost twelve. Thats the way it is.
neath the year that makes you eleven.
5 Only today I wish I didnt have only eleven
2 Like some days you might say something years rattling inside me like pennies in a tin
stupid, and thats the part of you thats still Band-Aid box. Today I wish I was one hun-
ten. Or maybe some days you might need to dred and two instead of eleven because if I
sit on your mamas lap because youre scared, was one hundred and two Id have known
and thats the part of you thats five. And what to say when Mrs. Price put the red
maybe one day when youre all grown up sweater on my desk. I wouldve known how
maybe you will need to cry like youre three, to tell her it wasnt mine instead of just sitting
and thats okay. Thats what I tell Mama when there with that look on my face and nothing
shes sad and needs to cry. Maybe shes feeling coming out of my mouth.
three.
6 Whose is this? Mrs. Price says, and she
holds the red sweater up in the air for all the
Spotlight On: Sandra Cisneros
class to see. Whose? Its been sitting in the
Sandra Cisneros was born in 1954 and raised on coatroom for a month.
Chicagos South Side, the only daughter in a family with
six sons. The family traveled often between Chicago and 7 Not mine, says everybody. Not me.
her fathers hometown in Mexico. 8 It has to belong to somebody, Mrs. Price
While studying writing at the University of Iowa Writers keeps saying, but nobody can remember. Its
Workshop in 1978, Cisneros realized that perspectives an ugly sweater with red plastic buttons and
of Chicanas (Mexican-American women) were not a collar and sleeves all stretched out like you
represented in mainstream American literature. could use it for a jump rope. Its maybe a
She began to explore the cultural conflicts, the thousand years old and even if it belonged to
challenges of growing up poor, and issues of alienation me I wouldnt say so.
in her first and most popular books, Woman Hollering
Creek and The House on Mango Street.
The story continues on the next page.

FAST-R: Formative Assessments of Student Thinking in Reading. The passage text by Sandra Cisneros is from Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories. Copyright 1991 by Sandra
Cisneros. Some questions were drawn or adapted from the G10 MCAS Retest 2004 test. All other materials are Copyright 2007 by the Boston Plan for Excellence.
9 Maybe because Im skinny, maybe because she 17 Now! Mrs. Price says.
doesnt like me, that stupid Sylvia Saldvar says, 18 This is when I wish I wasnt eleven, because
I think it belongs to Rachel. An ugly sweater all the years inside of meten, nine, eight,
like that, all raggedy and old, but Mrs. Price seven, six, five, four, three, two, and oneare
believes her. Mrs. Price takes the sweater and puts pushing at the back of my eyes when I put
it right on my desk, but when I open my mouth one arm through one sleeve of the sweater
nothing comes out. that smells like cottage cheese, and then the
10 Thats not, I dont, youre notNot mine, other arm through the other and stand there
I finally say in a little voice that was maybe me with my arms apart like if the sweater hurts
when I was four. me and it does, all itchy and full of germs that
11 Of course its yours, Mrs. Price says. I re- arent even mine.
member you wearing it once. Because shes older 19 Thats when everything Ive been holding in
and the teacher, shes right and Im not. since this morning, since when Mrs. Price put
12 Not mine, not mine, not mine, but Mrs. Price the sweater on my desk, finally lets go, and all
is already turning to page thirty-two, and math of a sudden Im crying in front of everybody.
problem number four. I dont know why but all I wish I was invisible but Im not. Im eleven
of a sudden Im feeling sick inside, like the part and its my birthday today and Im crying like
of me thats three wants to come out of my eyes, Im three in front of everybody. I put my head
only I squeeze them shut tight and bite down down on the desk and bury my face in my
on my teeth real hard and try to remember that stupid clown-sweater arms. My face all hot
today I am eleven, eleven. Mama is making a and spit coming out of my mouth because I
cake for me tonight, and when Papa comes home cant stop the little animal noises from coming
everybody will sing Happy birthday, happy birth- out of me, until there arent any more tears left
day to you. in my eyes, and its just my body shaking like
when you have the hiccups, and my whole
13 But when the sick feeling goes away and I head hurts like when you drink milk too fast.
open my eyes, the red sweaters still sitting there
like a big red mountain. I move the red sweater 20 But the worst part is right before the bell
to the corner of my desk with my ruler. I move rings for lunch. That stupid Phyllis Lopez,
my pencil and books and eraser as far from it who is even dumber than Sylvia Saldvar, says
as possible. I even move my chair a little to the she remembers the red sweater is hers! I take it
right. Not mine, not mine, not mine. off right away and give to her, only Mrs. Price
pretends like everythings okay.
14 In my head Im thinking how long till lunch-
time, how long till I can take the red sweater 21 Today Im eleven. Theres a cake Mamas
and throw it over the schoolyard fence, or leave making for tonight, and when Papa comes
it hanging on a parking meter, or bunch it up home from work well eat it. Therell be
into a little ball and toss it across the alley. Except candles and presents and everybody will sing
when math period ends Mrs. Price says loud Happy birthday, happy birthday to you, Ra-
and in front of everybody, Now, Rachel, thats chel, only its too late.
enough, because she sees that Ive shoved the red 22 Im eleven today. Im eleven, ten, nine,
sweater to the tippy-tip corner of my desk and eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, and
its hanging all over the edge like a waterfall, but I one, but I wish I was one hundred and two.
dont care. I wish I was anything but eleven, because I
15 Rachel, Mrs. Price says. She says it like shes want today to be far away already, far away
getting mad. You put that sweater on right now like a runaway balloon, like a tiny o in the sky,
and no more nonsense. so tiny-tiny you have to close your eyes to see
it.
16 But its not
FAST-R: Formative Assessments of Student Thinking in Reading. The passage text by Sandra Cisneros is from Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories. Copyright 1991 by Sandra
Cisneros. Some questions were drawn or adapted from the G10 MCAS Retest 2004 test. All other materials are Copyright 2007 by the Boston Plan for Excellence.
FAST-R Formative Assessments of Student Thinking in Reading
Name Eleven Fiction
+ Date Teacher/Class

Directions: Answer the following multiple-choice questions by filling in the circle for the best answer on
your answer sheet.

1. In the story, Rachel thinks of herself as being ages ten, nine, eight, and so on. What does this suggest to
the reader about Rachel?
A. She makes excuses for her poor behavior.
B. She is the product of everything that has happened to her.
C. She distracts herself when she feels unhappy.
D. She knows why birthdays are such joyful occasions.

2. According to Rachel, the part of you thats five sometimes needs to

A. feel smart.
B. sit on your mamas lap.
C. feel sad and cry.
D. suck your thumb.

3. In paragraph 5, why does Rachel say that she wishes she was one hundred and two instead of eleven?
A. She does not want to go to school anymore.
B. She wants to be a teacher when she grows up.
C. She is not allowed to do things that adults can do.
D. She wishes she had more life experience.

4. Rachel compares growing old to

A. a tin Band-Aid box.
B. a red sweater.
C. a big red mountain.
D. rings inside a tree trunk.

5. Rachels words in paragraph 10 contain an ellipsis (. . .). What is the author probably trying to show?
A. Rachel has some doubt about whether the sweater is hers.
B. Rachel is waiting for someone to claim the sweater.
C. Rachel is remembering something that happened long ago.
D. Rachel is unable to express herself to Mrs. Price.

FAST-R: Formative Assessments of Student Thinking in Reading. The passage text by Sandra Cisneros is from Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories. Copyright 1991 by Sandra
Cisneros. Some questions were drawn or adapted from the G10 MCAS Retest 2004 test. All other materials are Copyright 2007 by the Boston Plan for Excellence.
Name School

Date Teacher/Class

6. Read the sentence from paragraph 13 in the box below.

But when the sick feeling goes away and I open my eyes, the
red sweaters still sitting there like a big red mountain.

What does Rachel most likely mean by this statement?

A. The sweater is too large for her to wear.
B. She sees the situation with the sweater as an exciting challenge.
C. The situation with the sweater makes her feel small and powerless.
D. All of her thoughts focus on how special the sweater is to her.

7. In paragraph 19, Rachel starts to cry because she is overwhelmed by feelings of

A. embarrassment.
B. anger.
C. sadness.
D. joy.

8. For Rachel, the worst part of her day is when

A. Mrs. Price puts the sweater on her desk.
B. Mrs. Price makes her wear the sweater.
C. The bell rings for lunch.
D. Mrs. Price pretends like everything is okay.

9. What effect do sensory details and figurative language have on the story?
A. They add suspense to the story.
B. They help the reader understand Rachels feelings.
C. They warn the reader not to believe everything Rachel says.
D. They give the story a lighthearted and casual tone.

10. Which of the following lines expresses the storys irony?

A. And when you wake up on your eleventh birthday you expect to feel eleven, but you dont. (para-
graph 1)
B. I even move my chair a little to the right. (paragraph 13)
C. ... its like hanging all over the edge like a waterfall, but I dont care. (paragraph 14)
D. ... I put one arm through one sleeve of the sweater that smells like cottage cheese ... (paragraph 18)

FAST-R: Formative Assessments of Student Thinking in Reading. The passage text by Sandra Cisneros is from Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories. Copyright 1991 by Sandra
Cisneros. Some questions were drawn or adapted from the G10 MCAS Retest 2004 test. All other materials are Copyright 2007 by the Boston Plan for Excellence.
Teachers: Please duplicate and use this answer sheet only for students for whom you did not receive a pre-printed answer sheet!

FAST-R Answer Sheet

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Completely fill the circle Write your answer to the open response prompt in the lined space below.
for the correct answer. if your teacher directs you to do so.

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