Key Into Evaluation

Key into Evaluation

Level Two Set T2

Evaluation requires the skills or reorganization and inference.  
Answers must come from the
information in the story. Look for keywords. Consider the writer’s intent.

Gym

My only brother was also my twin.  
You would think that because we were identical we would act
the same way and like the same things.  
He was born forty minutes before me and would often
remind me of the fact. Because I was keen on sport,
he would also rub me up the wrong way by raving on about
how the sport was boring and a big waste of time.

“Who, little brother,” he would jeer, “needs to suffer pain unnecessarily?”

When we turned fifteen my parents surprised
me with a year’s subscription to the In-Shape Gym.  
Now I was able to join Brant and Ethan each Monday and
Wednesday evening to seriously work out. When they turned
up at home to pick me up Josh would be sprawled out on the couch
mindlessly watching cartoons or playing his new PlayStation.  
He would poke fun at us and say that the best way to deal with an
urge to exercise was ’to stay calm and wait until it went away.’

“Just playing sport is bad enough,” he scoffed,
“but working out is over the top.  And Tim,” he says,
leaning forward and screwing up his nose, “the only reason
you would want to go there would be to attract the girls!”

So it was a surprise when having decided to go to
the gym late one Thursday afternoon, we saw Josh come
out the side door dressed in a tracksuit carrying a sports bag
in his hand.  What’s more, he crossed the road and walked straight
up to a smiling Tammy Aster - the most gorgeous girl at our school.

a.  Why did his brother refer to him as ‘little brother’?

He called him little brother because he was born 40 minutes later

b.  Do you think the writer was happy with his birthday present?  

Why do you say that? Yes Because he wanted to work out serious with his friends

c.  What present do you think Tim’s brother got for his fifteenth birthday?

For his birthday he got a new PlayStation

d.  Why do you think Josh was at the gym?

Reaction question:

Would you like to be Josh’s brother?  Why do you say that?

yes because he is nice and kind and he actually listens

Create activity:

Find out about a gym in the local area.  How much is it to
join and how old do you have to be?

Create an advertisement for this gym.

This week for Key into Evaluation we were reading a book called Gym.It about two
brothers one was born and then the other was born 40 minuets later.One is nice and
one is naught.Next I needed to answer the question about the book I needed to also add
add something to my answer that was from the text.Next I needed to Create an
advertisement for a gym.