RI.LCS.11.1
      Description:
        
          Analyze and critique how the author uses structures in print and multimedia texts to craft informational and argument writing.
Analyze the impact of text features and structures on authors’ similar ideas or claims about the same topic.
        
    
    
      
        Maps to Reading Plus skills:
        
          7C
        
      
    
  Exemplars
7C: Interpreting Images
7C: Interpreting Images
              Description:
              Intepreting Images and Maps
            
          
          
          
              SeeReader
              
                 ✓ standard met 
              
            
            
              
              
              
              
                
              
              
              
                Selection:
                
                   H-18 
                
                
                  
              
              H-18
 Grade level:  8 
    
                    Word count: 1736 words 
                   Author: Mira Kadushin 
                   Synopsis: Different cultures have rituals to mark a person's passage from childhood to adulthood.
                
              Image:
                  
                  
                Question:
                The author uses the structure pictured in this image as a symbol for
                
            
          - a transition to a new life phase.
 - a celebration of homecoming.
 - an invitation to join a community.
 - a separation from society.
 
              Writing
              
                 ✓ standard met 
              
            
            
              
                  Writing prompt:
                  
                    Choose an image from a fictional selection you have read. Use the image as inspiration to write a new nonfiction piece on the same topic.
                  
                
              Evaluator
                  Organization:
                  Certica Solutions