Apply your knowledge: you want to know if your kindergarten student can count five objects with 80% accuracy (four out of five times). describe an authentic assessment that you can conduct with the student to see if he or she can count to five objects accurately four out of five times. be sure to include what materials you will use. where you will conduct the assessment? what question(s) you will ask?

I would ask him/her to build a castle/drawing/object using 5 small different pieces, for five times. Every time we would build a different object with FIVE pieces. The student would count to 5 whenever he/she uses the pieces.

Explanation:

"the monkey's paw" is a rare story in that the theme is actually stated in the story. sgt. maj. morris tells the whites that the old fakir who put the spell on the paw said, "fate rules people's lives and those who interfere with fate do so to their sorrow." the message is a warning, but mr. white doesn't believe it. even though sgt. maj. morris makes it clear that he tried wishing with unfortunate results and he tries to throw the paw on the fire,   mr. white makes a wish for 200 pounds only to find that he receives the money when herbert dies in a factory accident. according to the fakir, then, because mr. white had wished for something he should not have had, his son lost his life.

the second wish that mrs. white encourages him to make is for herbert's return--one week after his death. when the strange knocking begins at the door during the windy night, mr. white panicks, believing that the previously dead but still mangled herbert could have walked home from the cemetary and is now at the door. because he fears what his wife will find if she opens the door, mr. white makes his third wish--for the noise to stop.

therefore, he uses his three wishes and to his sorrow, loses his son and disappoints his wife, who fervently believed that their son was at the door. she wanted him back, regardless of his condition.

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