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9-10R2

Description: Key Ideas and Details Determine one or more themes or central ideas in a text and analyze its development, including how it emerges and is shaped and refined by specific details; objectively and accurately summarize a text.
Maps to Reading Plus skills: 1A, 2A, 2C

Exemplars

2A: Determining Main Idea

2A: Determining Main Idea

Description: Determining Main Idea and Themes

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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: No excerpt is available for this question.
Question: What is the main idea of this selection?
  1. Face-to-face interaction can lead to a personal understanding that technology doesn't always allow.
  2. We must each find a purposeful path to follow in life that is different from that of our peers.
  3. Creative teachers provide learning environments that inspire and encourage individual discoveries.
  4. Teenagers benefit from relationships the most when they date more than one person in high school.

Writing
✓ standard met

Writing prompt: Explain how the author presents a theme in a selection through plot, characters, and setting. Describe the events that embody the theme.

Evaluator

Organization: Certica Solutions

2C: Summarizing

2C: Summarizing

Description: Summarizing

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✓ standard met

Selection: J-26

J-26

Grade level: 10
Word count: 2122 words
Author: Jake Gibson
Synopsis: The practice of devising secret codes and developing ways to break them has been around since ancient times.
Excerpt: Frequency analysis is a method that measures the rate to which certain letters and groups of letters appear in a given language. Using this method can uncover the algorithm used to originally generate that cipher.

Acknowledging the rate to which letters and groups of letters appear in words and sentences, frequency analysis determines patterns where ciphertext letters can be connected to plaintext letters. The patterns are then used to recreate the cipher and then decipher the entire encryption.

Question: What does this excerpt tell you about cryptanalysis?
  1. Frequency analysis uses patterns in languages to decipher encryptions.
  2. Letter frequency differs greatly depending on the language.
  3. Frequency analysis scans ciphertexts for vowels to discover weaknesses in ciphers.
  4. Encryptions that use the letters A, E, O, and T are easier to decipher.

Writing
✓ standard met

Writing prompt: Imagine you are an attorney. Prepare a summation of a selection you have read to present to a jury for deliberation.

Evaluator

Organization: Certica Solutions

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-34

J-34

Grade level: 10
Word count: 1806 words
Author: Peter Brassai
Synopsis: Hitchcock made dozens of thrillers that demonstrated his mastery of suspense, shock, and menace.
Excerpt: Hitchcock had a distinctive and decidedly visual style, always emphasizing imagery over dialogue. Critics praised his ability to generate suspense through innovative visual effects, such as montage, oblique camera angles, and cross-cutting between objective shots of a scene and subjective views from an actor's perspective.

Question: According to the selection, Hitchcock's filmmaking style could be considered "distinctive and decidedly visual" due to his use of which two of the following visual effects?
  1. montage
  2. cross-cutting
  3. fish-eye
  4. perspective
  5. zoom

Writing
✓ standard met

Writing prompt: Create a website for a non-fiction selection you read. Include the main idea and supporting details. Include images that would help viewers of your website better understand the topic.

Evaluator

Organization: Certica Solutions