A short quiz on CCSS.RI.9-10.2. This quiz uses Winston Churchill's famous speech, "Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat." The text has a Dale-Chall complexity of grades 5-6, and a Flesch-Kincaid level of 6.5.
A short quiz on CCSS.RI.9-10.3. The text is from George Orwell's "Politics and the English Language". It has a Dale-Chall text-difficulty level of 7-8 and a Flesch-Kincaid level of 11.
Short quiz on CCSS.RI.9-10.4. The text is from Brendan Buhler's essay, "The Teeming Metropolis of You". The Dale-Chall text-difficulty level is 11-12, the Flesch-Kincaid level is 9.9.
A short Quiz on CCSS.ELA-Literacy.9-10.RI.5. The text is from Gregg Easterbrook's Essay, "Abortions and Brainwaves". The Dale-Chall text difficulty level is 11-12, the Flesch-Kincaid is 11.3.
A short quiz on RI.6, using an excerpt from Daniel Defoe's "The Education of Women". The Dale-Chall text difficulty level is 7-8, and the Flesch-Kincaid level is 9.4.
A short Quiz on RI.6, with a text from Peter Ferrara's article, "To the Horror of Global Warming Alarmists, Global Cooling is Here" and an image from the wiki of www.globalwarmingart.com. The text's Dale-Chall difficulty level is 9-10, and the Flesch-Kincaid level is 13.4.
A short quiz on CCSS.ELA-Literacy.9-10.RI.8. The text is from Eliezer Yudkowsky's blog post, "How to Actually Change Your Mind". The Dale-Chall text complexity level is 7-8, and the Flesch-Kincaid is 8.6.
A short quiz on CCSS.ELA-Literacy.9-10.RI.8, with excerpts from articles by Brendan O'Neill ("A March of Middle-Class Miserabilists") and Francis A. Schaeffer ("It is Your Life that is Involved"). The Dale-Chall difficulty level is 11-12, and the Flesch-Kincaid is 13.1.
A short quiz on CCSS.ELA-Literacy.9-10.RI.9, with a text featuring Abraham Lincoln's "The Gettysburg Address." The Dale-Chall text difficulty level is 7-8, the Flesch-Kincaid level is 8.1.
A short quiz on CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.9-10.3, featuring a passage from Shakespeare's Macbeth. The passage has a Dale-Chall text difficulty level of 7-8, and a Flesch-Kincaid level of 7.0. (However, these metrics are not designed for poetry.)
A short quiz on CCSS.ELA-Literacy.9-10.RL.1, featuring Shelley's poem, "Ozymandias". The poem has a Dale-Chall reading difficulty level of 9-10, and a Flesch-Kincaid difficulty of 9.8.
A short quiz on CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.9-10.2, featuring Robert Frost's poem, "The Road not Taken". The poem has a Dale-Chall difficulty level of 7-8, and a Flesch-Kincaid level of 12.8.
A short quiz on CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.9-10.3, featuring a passage from Shakespeare's Macbeth. The passage has a Dale-Chall text difficulty level of 7-8, and a Flesch-Kincaid level of 7.0. (However, these metrics are not designed for poetry.)
A short quiz on CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.9-10.3, featuring a passage from Ken Kesey's book, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. The Dale-Chall text difficulty level of the pasage is 5-6, the Flesch-Kincaid level is 5.1.
A short quiz on CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.9-10.3 featuring a passage from Suzanne Collins's book, The Hunger Games. The passage has a Dale-Chall text difficulty level of 4, and a Flesch-Kincaid level of 3.7.
A short quiz on CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.9-10.4, featuring a passage from O. Henry's short story, "The Gift of the Magi". The passage has a Dale-Chall text difficulty level of 5-6, and a Flesch-Kincaid level of 5.0.
A short quiz on CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.9-10.5, featuring quotes from Margaret Atwood's book, The Robber Bride; Harper Lee's book, To Kill a Mockingbird; Leo Tolstoi's short story, "The Confessed Crime"; Anne Sexton's poem, "The Starry Night"; and, the TV Show, "Ben 10: Alien Force". Collected together, the quotes have a Dale-Chall text difficulty index of 4, and a Flesch-Kincaid level of 4.4.
A short quiz on CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.9-10.6 featuring two verses from the Tao Te Ching, as translated by Tormond Byrn. The passages have a Dale-Chall text difficulty index of 5-6 and a Flesch-Kincaid level of 3.6.
A short quiz on CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.9-10.9, featuring a passage from the Old English poem, Beowulf (translated by T. A. Shippey), and a passage from Genesis in the King James Bible. The passages have a Dale-Chall index of 5-6 and a Kincaid level of 5.9.
A short quiz on CCSS.W.9-10.5. This quiz uses errors common in African American Vernacular English in inner-city Detroit 2013. The types of errors were taken from student examples. There are 36 major errors that students should identify.