RL.2.c
Description:
Key Ideas and Details
Determine and analyze a theme and/or central idea of texts:
Cite strong and thorough textual evidence.
Maps to Reading Plus skills:
1A
Exemplars
1A: Recalling Explicit Details
1A: Recalling Explicit Details
Description:
Identifying explicit details including character, time, setting and speaker
SeeReader
✓ standard met
Selection:
I-8
I-8
Grade level: 9
Word count: 1716 words
Author: H.H. Munro
Synopsis: The legend about the Cernogratz wolves is just a story -- isn't it? An elderly servant says otherwise.
Excerpt:
"Hark! What is that other sound?" asked the startled Baron, as a noise of splitting and crashing was heard.
It was a tree falling in the park.
There was a moment of constrained silence, and then the banker's wife spoke.
"It is the intense cold that is splitting the trees. It is also the cold that has brought the wolves out in such numbers. It is many years since we have had such a cold winter."
The Baroness eagerly agreed that the cold was responsible for these things. It was the cold of the open window, too, which caused the heart failure that made the doctor's ministrations unnecessary for the old Fraulein.
It was a tree falling in the park.
There was a moment of constrained silence, and then the banker's wife spoke.
"It is the intense cold that is splitting the trees. It is also the cold that has brought the wolves out in such numbers. It is many years since we have had such a cold winter."
The Baroness eagerly agreed that the cold was responsible for these things. It was the cold of the open window, too, which caused the heart failure that made the doctor's ministrations unnecessary for the old Fraulein.
Question:
The Baroness and her guests said both the howling wolves and the falling trees were due to
- the extreme cold.
- the rise of the full moon.
- sheer coincidence.
- bad luck.
Writing
✓ standard met
Writing prompt:
Write three questions about a selection that will require additional research or fact-checking to answer them. Provide the answers to these questions.
Evaluator
Organization:
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