7.2.R.2

Description: Students will analyze details in literary and nonfiction/informational texts to distinguish genres.
Maps to Reading Plus skills: 2A

Exemplars

2A: Determining Main Idea

2A: Determining Main Idea

Description: Determining Main Idea and Themes

SeeReader
✓ standard met

Selection: G-47

G-47

Grade level: 7
Word count: 1891 words
Author: Anonymous
Synopsis: A woman describes the many daily challenges and few pleasures she experienced as a farmer's wife in the early 20th century.
Excerpt: No excerpt is available for this question.
Question: This selection is mainly about a
  1. woman's quest for personal fulfillment.
  2. family's struggles in the early 1900s.
  3. farmer's excessive demands on his wife.
  4. writer's gratitude to her minister.
  5. woman's quest for personal fulfillment.
  6. family's struggles in the early 1900s.
  7. farmer's excessive demands on his wife.
  8. writer's gratitude to her minister.

Writing
✓ standard met

Writing prompt: Using the Internet or other research tools, find three additional pieces of information that support the main idea stated in the selection.

Evaluator

Organization: Certica Solutions