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8R9

Description: Integration of Knowledge and Ideas Choose and develop criteria in order to evaluate the quality of texts. Make connections to other texts, ideas, cultural perspectives, eras, and personal experiences.
Maps to Reading Plus skills: 8B

Exemplars

8B: Reasoning

8B: Reasoning

Description: Reasoning

SeeReader
✓ standard met

Selection: H-41

H-41

Grade level: 8
Word count: 2036 words
Author: Lucy McNamara
Synopsis: An eye doctor devotes his life to curing avoidable blindness in poor and remote parts of the world.
Excerpt: The results of the trial showed that patient outcomes after six months were about the same: 98 percent of each group had excellent eyesight. However, Dr. Ruit took only about half as much time to perform each of his surgeries, and more of his patients had normal vision on the first day after surgery. It was clear that his results were equal to, or better than, those at a modern Western hospital, and at a fraction of the expense.

The publication of this trial in a professional journal, combined with Dr. Ruit's live demonstration at the 2008 meeting in Hong Kong, removed any possible reasons for other eye doctors to question the value of Dr. Ruit's cataract procedure.

Question: Dr. Ruit invited Dr. Chang to participate in a clinical trial so that other eye doctors
  1. would adopt his efficient and economical surgical method that yielded excellent results.
  2. would move to Nepal and open their own eye centers to cure avoidable blindness.
  3. would raise funds so he could purchase modern equipment like that used in California.
  4. would nominate him for an award that would bring him international recognition for his work.

Writing
✓ standard met

Writing prompt: How would you apply what you learned in a selection to your own life?

Evaluator

Organization: Certica Solutions