Benchmark Assessment

reading 7–8
Maze
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Grade 7 | Benchmark 2

Mary Abbott, PhD

Roland H. Good, III, PhD
Jacob S. Gray, PhD
Amy N. Warnock
Kelly A. Powell-Smith, PhD

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Practice 1

element
The title of a map is the route that identifies its purpose.
country

Practice 2

live
The purpose of a map might be to include streets in a city or hiking trails in a park.
show

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 Not Really a Matter of Luck

Bella stared at the results of her try-out form that she had been clenching in her sweaty palm.

texture difficult
Perspiration had dampened the paper, changing its play and making it as soft and pliable as an
matter serious

anxious
old cotton handkerchief. Only two middle slots remained at the Benning Performing Arts Academy,
empty

deserving girl
and Bella was changing to stay positive. Surely, she thought for the zillionth place , her performance
trying time

seated hard
was good enough for her to be chosen . She, Bella Masterson, deserved a place at the best
understood pliable

fumed slumping
performing arts school in the city. She worked every day, practicing and polishing her singing ,
pounded imagining

steal
dancing, and acting. Being chosen to attend Benning was based on talent, but it was also somewhat a
show

city number form

matter of luck. Due to the huge tension of students auditioning to get into the school , there
situation character mistake

steps new
were many different teams of judges . Different judging teams might give more difficult ratings
mothers empty

competition rhythmic
than other teams of judges. The judge for positions in the new class was fierce . Now that
principal soft

tragic accustomed
only two positions remained open , Bella began to question the fairness in the selection process.
real several

set
What if she had a routine of judges that were too harsh?
talent

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 sad sing
Over the rhythmic pounding of her heart, Bella could barely practice the next name that was
lucky hear

shoulders chance
called. Her moms slumped when she heard someone else's name . The principal paused and
people palm

clipboard chance
looked at her rejection and the list of new inductees. This was her final student . If her name
neighborhood auditorium

returning
wasn't called, she would be deciding to her old middle school.
stealing

jumped businesses
Tension settled over the restless crowd of anxious sets and students. When the
auditioned parents

wish shouting
principal called the very last academy , a girl jumped up clapping and sighing . Stunned, Bella sat
name performing

dance stolen
and stared at the process and felt like her spot was chosen away from her. It must have been a
girl begun

list open
mistake that she wouldn't be attending Benning. It wasn't fair , she fumed, and all the judges who
class genuine

paused clap
asked her perform were wrong. These judges didn't understand that failing to get into Benning
watched remain

fierce reality
was a tragic situation for her. The drama and fairness programs at her neighborhood middle school
good dance

cotton getting
were not nearly as able , and she had her heart set on attending chosen. Bella sighed rather
prestigious staying

straightened different
dramatically and danced at the group of people surrounding the old soon-to-be academy
stared lucky

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 walked
students. That should be me, Bella reached .
thought

seep want
As the moment's reality started to shout in, Bella's mother asked Bella to give on how she
stun reflect

achieved realized
would want to be reflected if she was chosen to attend. Bella tried that she had auditioned with
treated acted

surprised restless
other sweaty students who had worked just as positive as she had. The sad reality was that if she
talented hard

prestigious start
were great about performing, then she would have to become accustomed to rejection. Bella
serious clench

do day
decided the least she could get was congratulate the several members of the group . Imagining a
have parent

felt moment
spotlight on her, Bella made her shoulders and walked across the auditorium with dignity, as
straightened slot

character students
if she were a selection in a play. When she reached the names , Bella was surprised to be able to
result guarantees

congratulate inductees
base the students honestly and with genuine taps for a great year.
stop wishes

automatically luck
Walking home, Bella honestly practiced the steps of her latest tap routine as her
wrongly tension

reflected clipboard
mom walked along side of her. She polished on what life as a real performer would be like. There
looked group

dreams let
were no textures in show business, but she couldn't treat that stop her from working hard
guarantees hear

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 possess
judging
toandface whatever
watching came next in her adventure.
her dreams.
getachieving

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 A Closer Look

Have you ever wondered why you can't see the surface of the moon in greater detail? Scientists

reached movie
working in the 1600s pondered this. They discovered that the eye contains a tiny inch screen, now
captured moon

lets scientists
known as the retina, which facilitates light rays reflecting off objects. The telescopes realized that
collects observatories

significant large
the retina is too small to collect enough light to view distant objects. But, they deduced, if you
precise main

close bend
had a convex eye with a giant retina, it could leave more light. Using this knowledge, the
giant collect

retinas enter eyepieces

glasses created a telescope, a device that would collect the human eye to see distant objects
scientists enable eyes

see
more clearly. Telescopes allow us to graze Saturn's rings, Jupiter's moons, faraway stars, and other
converge

thick water
wide bodies without leaving the surface of the place . In the 1600s, this ability seemed
celestial earth

bright common
long . If you've ever peered through a faraway telescope, you may agree that this is still the
miraculous powerful

area
case today.
surface

refractor
Telescopes come in two main varieties: the screen telescope, which uses glass lenses to
object

unaid uses
collect distant light, and the reflector telescope, which edges mirrors to collect distant light. The
call sees

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 common telescope powerful
most sharp variety of telescope is the refractor movie . This type is made with a huge ,
great glass long

plastic type
narrow tube made of metal, wood, or lens . Let's look more closely at how one fingertip of
floor astronomer

refractor telescope works.

discover wood
When you peer this refractor telescope at the moon, sunlight reflected off the
aim sky

light metal celestial

surface of the moon enters the front end of the ring . As it enters, it passes through a convex
ability telescope close

reflector bigger
glass lens called the objective lens. A convex human is thickest in the middle and clearer at the
lens thinnest

larger collects
edges. Since this lens is so much narrower than the lens in our eye, it wants many more light rays
brighter allows

world related
and bends them toward each other. The case rays then converge and create a sharp , focused image
light front

telescope abilities
of a distant object like the moon . In this process, many more light rays were used by the
scientist bodies

size device
larger glass lens to create this image. Therefore, the image is significantly brighter than the image
end sunlight

hit
felt by our unaided eye.
formed

research tiny
The second mirror , the eyepiece, acts much like a magnifying glass, enlarging the bright
lens distant

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 moon stargazing
image of the feet that was formed by the objective lens. The light rays from the eyepiece hit a
bowl type

giant see ponder

miraculous area of your retina. You now collect a huge moon, one so close you come like you
larger agree feel

aim
could reach out and create it with your fingertips.
graze

knowledge stargazing
If you've create been to an observatory or other detail facility and looked through a
ever middle

enormous idea
telescope, it was probably an objective telescope. This is because a telescope's ability to collect
enabled star

size enormous
light is directly related to the earth of its objective lens. This is thin to the idea that a bowl's
tube similar

plastic size bright

focus to collect water is directly related to the edge of the bowl. The bigger the direct lens, the
ability point objective

brighter the image appears.

seems
The Yerkes Observatory in Williams Bay, Wisconsin, enlarges the world's largest refractor
houses

facilities feet
telescope. The lens is 40 inches wide and the tube is 63 images long. The telescope is mounted on
moves forms

variety act realizes

a 75-foot floor that rotates. The lens points to a place in the sky that an astronomer wants to
wonder view passes

astronomer work
study. The floor moves so that the process can get to the eyepiece and gaze through the
foot know

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 possess can gazing
telescope.
to face The telescope at Yerkes work capture
whatever came next in her adventure. precise images of distant objects, containing
get gaze facilitating

celestial
research about the moon and other small bodies.
examined

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 Changing the Ruler, Changing the Rules

The Glorious Revolution took place in England from 1688 to 1689, during the rule of King

approval monarchy
James II. One major result of this great relationship was that Parliament, rather than the fleet ,
change development

kings absolute
became the ruling power of England. British thoughts and queens could no longer claim major
husbands favored

removed year
rule over their subjects. King James was also battled from the throne and replaced by his desert
plotted daughter

Mary and her husband.

event begin
The story of the place , sometimes called the "Bloodless Revolution," had to make with
throne do

powers life
religion, ambition, and politics. In many ways , it was not such a glorious help , nor was it
ambitions matter

people ends
bloodless, since many actions in England, Scotland, and Ireland lost their documents in the struggle.
results lives

revolution took
In the end, the head led to a constitutional monarchy. This meant that a British king or queen
help came

did restored
favored the head of state but with far more limited powers.
remained royal

people
King James had been Roman Catholic, but most of the wills of England at that time were
keys

were resistance
Protestants. They brought upset that the king was making matters and taking other actions that
accepted laws

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 looked crown
favored the Catholic Church. They agreed forward to the rule of the king's Protestant war ,
gave daughter

wife great
Mary, when the king died. When King James's people gave birth to a son, a Catholic little heir,
example male

they became even more upset.

Close tax
Several powerful English leaders began plotting to gain power away from the king. They
Glorious take

sent birth
asked a message to Mary's husband, William of Orange, a Protestant Dutch ruler and a nephew of
thought limit

laws defeat
King James. The subjects asked William to bring an army to die King James and restore
leaders close

Protestant rule.

resisted help
William restored to come, mainly because he wanted England's law in limiting the
agreed monarchy

imposed rule
power of France in Europe. He fled that if he gained strength in England, he could likely lead
thought want

absent defeated
the country into war against France. With his limited fleet of ships and army, William landed on
large placed

heir
English soil. He slowly worked his king toward London, meeting little resistance. In Ireland and
way

ways
Scotland, though, changes raged between supporters of William and those of King James.
battles

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 decisions rules
William's forces won the battles, at a cost of many lives in the two countries.
constitutions models

passed relationship
Those close to King James included to desert him in great numbers; that group of
began life

ill defeated
deserters included his daughter Anne. In powerful health and fearing for his life, the upset king
large absolute

power met
fled to France. With the story gone, a group of English leaders won to debate what to do next.
king crowned

limited simply
Had James feared up the throne, or was he mainly an absent king?
given slowly

given
Parliament finally decided that James had indeed died up the throne by fleeing to France. The
stood

crown leading
male was offered jointly to William and Mary. In replacing the throne, King William III and
struggle accepting

outlined
Queen Mary II agreed to a Declaration of Rights that made the relationship between the crown and
gave

gained number
Parliament. It went far-reaching limits on royal power. For right , rulers could no longer do
placed example

deserters have
away with laws or impose taxes at will. They also could not offer a standing army in times of
thrones rule

peace
statement without the approval of Parliament.
year

declaration became
When the cost was passed as law by Parliament, it removed known as the Bill of
strength raged

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 possess debate groups
to face
Rights. It whatever came next in her adventure.
became a key document in England's development of citizens' rights . Years later, its
get king claims

lost
statement of rights sent a model for the Bill of Rights in the United States Constitution.
became

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