on the Georgia Milestones End-of-Grade assessment, you will write a narrative in response to a prompt assessment, you will also respond to reading comprehension questions before writing your narrative.

Question

Narrative prompts will vary depending on passage type. The sample provided in this resource is an example of a narrative prompt based on an informational passage.
Read the passage and answer questions 12 through 15.
Messages from the Sea
In 2018, Tonya Illman was walking on a beach in Australia. Suddenly, she spotted a yellow glass bottle partly hidden under the sand. At first, she thought the bottle would make a nice decoration in her home. When she looked closely, though, Illman realized this was not just a beautiful bottle. It contained a piece of paper with writing. Could she solve the mystery behind it?
Clues from the Past
When Illman got home, she removed the paper from the bottle and gently unrolled the paper. It had German words on both sides. Illman and her husband could decode some of the handwriting. They could read the date June 12, but the year was impossible to read. They also noticed part of a word, with the letters "aula." Could that be the name of a ship?
Illman contacted Ross Anderson, an employee at a nearby museum. Anderson told her that indeed there had been a German ship named the Paula. Then a phone call from Anderson to experts in Germany helped solve the mystery. These experts found logbooks from the Paula's ocean voyages.
During one trip, the captain of the Paula had written in his logbook that, on June 12, 1886, he tossed a bottle overboard. The captain often did this to try to measure ocean currents. The note inside this bottle asked the finder to report where it was discovered. The handwriting in the captain's logbook matched the writing in the bottle's note. All these clues proved that Illman had made an extremely rare discovery! She said, "This has been the most remarkable event in my life. ... [It's astounding] that this bottle has not been touched for nearly 132 years and is in perfect condition." As of 2019, Illman holds the record for the oldest message in a bottle ever found.
Bottle Overboard
The captain of the Paula was not the only person to throw bottles from a ship. Centuries ago, many ship captains tossed bottles with messages into oceans and seas. They hoped the bottles would be found by people on shore. Then the bottles' locations might tell the captains about the patterns of ocean currents. There are even stories about the ancient Greeks sending bottles into the Mediterranean Sea. However, these stories cannot be verified because none of the bottles were found.
Many bottles with messages are damaged or never reach land. Often, bottles leak, letting water inside and destroying the paper. Other bottles may simply break and sink to the ocean floor. Some bottles that do reach land end up hidden out of sight like buried treasure. Scientists, too, have dropped many bottles into oceans and seas. Between 1904 and 1906, a scientist named George Bidder tossed over 1,000 bottles into the North Sea. Each bottle contained a posteard that mentioned a modest reward of one shilling. A shilling was an English coin worth about 24 cents in American money in 1906. For those who found Bidder's bottles, receiving a reward was simple. The finder had to fill in the requested information on the bottle's postcard and mail the card to the Marine Biological Association in England.
Hundreds of Bidder's bottles were eventually found. Waves carried them onto the shore. People caught them in fishing nets. One of his bottles was discovered over 100 years later. In 2015, retired postal worker Marianne Winkler stumbled upon one of these bottles in Germany. Then Winkler did what Bidder had requested. She filled out the postcard from the bottle and mailed it. She received her shilling reward!
The Drift Bottle Project
In 2000, Canadian scientist Eddy Carmack became fascinated by messages in bottles and started the Drift Bottle Project. Carmack and many volunteers drop bottles into the water from different ships throughout the world's oceans. They keep track of when and where each bottle is dropped. The bottles are sealed with wax that prevents leaks, and every bottle contains a note with Carmack's contact information. Whenever a bottle is discovered, researchers record the details about when and where it was found. Carmack reports that about one in every 25 bottles is found.
Like other scientists before him, Carmack planned to use his bottle data to help track ocean currents. But his research has turned out to be far more useful than that. His data on the bottles' journeys have provided important clues about the climate, such as the melting patterns of ice in the Arctic. The drift bottles have also shown which direction oil spills and other types of pollution are moving around the world.
Messages in bottles might contribute much more to science in the future. So, those who find themselves on beaches should look and step carefully. Clues might be just ahead, peeking out of the sand Evidence-Based Selected-Response Technology-Enhanced
This question has two parts. Answer Part A and then answer Part B.
Part A
How does the section "Clues from the Past" BEST contribute to the author's development of ideas?
A. It provides a scientific explanation for why drift bottle notes become damaged over time.
B. It suggests that the older the drift bottle is the more money it can be worth to collectors.
C. It reveals why it can be exciting and rewarding to solve the mystery of a drift bottle.
D. It explains why many ship captains tossed bottles overboard hundreds of years ago.
Part B
Which detail from the section BEST supports the answer in Part A?
A. When Illman got home, she removed the paper from the bottle and gently unrolled the paper.
B. Anderson told her that indeed there had been a German ship named the Paula.
C. The note inside this bottle asked the finder to report where it was discovered.
D. As of 2019, Illman holds the record for the oldest message in a bottle ever found.
Item 13
Selected-Response
Read the sentences from the passage.
Illman and her husband could decode some of the handwriting. They could read the date June 12, but the year was impossible to read.
Which statement BEST defines the meaning of the word decode as it is used in the sentences?
A. to create a new copy of
B. to transfer to another place
C. to recognize and understand
D. to change into something different Which statement REST explaing the eldrideance of Eddy Carmack's work with drift bottles?
A. Carmack continued the work of scientists who had attempted to solve the mysteries in ship captains*
B. Carmack organized a bottle project that provides useful information to scientists about climate and C.
Carmack developed a method to seal drift bottles to protect their contents from leaks and water
damage.
D.
Carmack encouraged people who find drift bottles to write down details about when and where they found them.

Answer 1

Sure! Here are the answers to the reading comprehension questions based on the passage you provided.

Question 12

Part A
How does the section "Clues from the Past" BEST contribute to the author's development of ideas?
C. It reveals why it can be exciting and rewarding to solve the mystery of a drift bottle.

Part B
Which detail from the section BEST supports the answer in Part A?
D. As of 2019, Illman holds the record for the oldest message in a bottle ever found.

Question 13

Which statement BEST defines the meaning of the word decode as it is used in the sentences?
C. to recognize and understand.

Question 14

Which statement BEST explains the significance of Eddy Carmack's work with drift bottles?
B. Carmack organized a bottle project that provides useful information to scientists about climate and ocean currents.

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