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RL.1.a

Description: Key Ideas and Details Read closely to comprehend texts of grade-level appropriate complexity: Determine what the text says explicitly and implicitly.
Maps to Reading Plus skills: 1A, 1B, 3B, 8A

Exemplars

1A: Recalling Explicit Details

1A: Recalling Explicit Details

Description: Identifying explicit details including character, time, setting and speaker

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✓ standard met

Selection: J-11

J-11

Grade level: 10
Word count: 2199 words
Author: Diane Lang
Synopsis: Skylar and Jason's relationship is already strained when they're paired together for a class project. Will their "no-technology" challenge make them, or break them?
Excerpt: "Okay, ladies and gents," Mr. Crawford began, "in our last class we discussed some of Henry David Thoreau's ideas about nature as expressed in his book, 'Walden,' particularly the notion Thoreau had of Walden pond as an eye -- 'intermediate in its nature between land and sky.' As you might recall, Thoreau's self-built one-room cabin was on his good friend Ralph Waldo Emerson's land, where he experimented in living independently as he sought self-fulfillment and closure over his brother's death."

Question: According to Mr. Crawford, for which two reasons did Thoreau conduct his "experiment" at Walden Pond?
  1. to seek self-fulfillment
  2. to find closure over his brother's death
  3. to spend time with his friend Emerson
  4. to understand more about nature
  5. to learn how to build a cabin

Writing
✓ standard met

Writing prompt: The setting of a selection includes not only place but also time. Describe a selection you have read in which the historical time period was critical to the plot. For example, Charles Dickens' "A Tale of Two Cities.'

Evaluator

Organization: Certica Solutions

1B: Analyzing Implicit Details

1B: Analyzing Implicit Details

Description: Drawing Conclusions, Making Inferences from information in text

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✓ standard met

Selection: J-17

J-17

Grade level: 10
Word count: 2251 words
Author: Guy de Maupassant
Synopsis: Simple actions may sometimes lead to unexpected, dire consequences.
Excerpt: Jokers would make him tell the story of "the piece of string" to amuse them, just as you make a soldier who has been on a campaign tell his story of the battle. His mind kept growing weaker and about the end of December he took to his bed.

He passed away early in January, and, in the ravings of death agony, he protested his innocence, repeating, "A little bit of string -- a little bit of string. See, here it is, M'sieu le Mayor."

Question: What happens to Hauchecorne at the end of this selection?
  1. He is driven to insanity and eventually death due to the false charges brought against him.
  2. He is vindicated in court and regains his reputation as an honest man.
  3. He is granted revenge when he becomes mayor and jails Malandain for making false accusations.
  4. He is found guilty by a jury of his peers and is sentenced to jail even though he is innocent.

Writing
✓ standard met

Writing prompt: Describe how you arrived at conclusions about a selection's main idea and characters if information about these text elements was not directly stated.

Evaluator

Organization: Certica Solutions

3B: Analyzing Plot/Character

3B: Analyzing Plot/Character

Description: Analyzing setting, plot, and character

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✓ standard met

Selection: J-17

J-17

Grade level: 10
Word count: 2251 words
Author: Guy de Maupassant
Synopsis: Simple actions may sometimes lead to unexpected, dire consequences.
Excerpt: Monsieur Hauchecorne, of Breaute, had just arrived at Goderville and was making his way toward the square when he perceived on the ground a little piece of string. Monsieur Hauchecorne, economical as are all true Normans, reflected that everything was worth picking up which could be of any use, and he stooped down, but painfully, because he suffered from rheumatism. He took the bit of thin string from the ground and was carefully preparing to roll it up when he saw Monsieur Malandain, the harness maker, on his doorstep staring at him. They had once had a quarrel about a halter, and they had borne each other malice ever since.

Question: Before he picked up the piece of string, Hauchecorne's relationship with Malandain can best be described as
  1. confrontational.
  2. respectful.
  3. cordial.
  4. neighborly.

Writing
✓ standard met

Writing prompt: Imagine you are the main character in a selection you read. Would your emotional reactions to events in the selection be the same as those of the actual character? Explain why or why not.

Evaluator

Organization: Certica Solutions

8A: Judging Validity

8A: Judging Validity

Description: Judge Validity

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✓ standard met

Selection: J-31

J-31

Grade level: 10
Word count: 2321 words
Author: Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Synopsis: Harald, son of Viking explorer Erik the Red, led a life full of great adventure, excitement, and danger. This tale mixes fact and fantasy.
Excerpt: Harald was going to the new western world called the Wonderstrands, which his brothers had discovered but left without sufficient exploration. The name implied it was an unusual land. First, however, he was to stop at Greenland, which his father had first discovered.

Erik the Red had chosen the name "Greenland" because, as he said, it was inevitable that people would be attracted there if it had a good name.

Question: Which is correct?
  1. Vikings used descriptive names for the lands they discovered and explored.
  2. Harald was the only son of Viking explorer Erik the Red.
  3. The Viking who conquered Wonderstrands has never been identified.
  4. Vikings were small, malnourished people but they were fiercely brave.

Writing
✓ standard met

Writing prompt: Imagine you are developing a new app to determine if a text is true or not true. What text clues would the app need to search for to judge validity? Provide examples.

Evaluator

Organization: Certica Solutions