CC.1.3.9-10.F

Description: Analyze how words and phrases shape meaning and tone in texts.
Maps to Reading Plus skills: 6A, 6C

Exemplars

6A: Recognizing Author's Intent

6A: Recognizing Author's Intent

Description: Recognizing Author's Purpose

SeeReader
✓ standard met

Selection: I-34

I-34

Grade level: 9
Word count: 1729 words
Author: Leo Tolstoy
Synopsis: The learned men in the kingdom are unable to answer the king's questions. Can a wise hermit provide the answers?
Excerpt: No excerpt is available for this question.
Question: Tolstoy intended for this selection to
  1. teach about morality.
  2. entertain with humor.
  3. instruct about history.
  4. persuade with facts.

Writing
✓ standard met

Writing prompt: What was the author's primary intent when he or she wrote a selection? What other objectives might the author have had in mind when writing the selection?

Evaluator

Organization: Certica Solutions

6C: Recognizing Mood/Tone

6C: Recognizing Mood/Tone

Description: Recognizing Mood and Tone

SeeReader
✓ standard met

Selection: I-7

I-7

Grade level: 9
Word count: 1833 words
Author: Charles Dickens
Synopsis: A young orphan, whose life's expectations are dim, meets a strange man while visiting his parents' graves in the village churchyard.
Excerpt: At such a time I found out for certain that this bleak place overgrown with nettles was the churchyard, and that Philip Pirrip, late of this parish, and also Georgiana wife of the above, were dead and buried; and that Alexander, Bartholomew, Abraham, Tobias, and Roger, infant children of the aforesaid, were also dead and buried; and that the dark flat wilderness beyond the churchyard, intersected with dikes and mounds and gates, with scattered cattle feeding on it, was the marshes; and that the low leaden line beyond was the river; and that the distant savage lair from which the wind was rushing was the sea; and that the small bundle of shivers growing afraid of it all and beginning to cry was Pip.

Question: Read this excerpt from the selection. The author's description of the setting gives the story a feeling of
  1. loneliness.
  2. frustration.
  3. nervousness.
  4. panic.

Writing
✓ standard met

Writing prompt: What kinds of language or other text structure elements (tone) are used to create a dramatic or fearful mood? Use details from a selection you have read to illustrate and explain your answer.

Evaluator

Organization: Certica Solutions