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11-12.RI.CS.6

Description: Informational Text Assess how point of view or purpose shapes the content and style of a text. Determine an author’s point of view and/or purpose in a text, analyzing how style and content contribute to its effectiveness.
Maps to Reading Plus skills: 5A, 6A

Exemplars

5A: Examining Text Structure

5A: Examining Text Structure

Description: Examining Text Structure

SeeReader
✓ standard met

Selection: K-4

K-4

Grade level: 11
Word count: 2496 words
Author: Diane Lang
Synopsis: A skilled snowboarder takes a big chance when he cruises the slopes in avalanche territory.
Excerpt: "Hey! Over there, about 30 degrees to the left of the snowslide -- footprints!" The helicopter glided westward and sure enough there were footprints leading to a rough structure tucked in between a stand of evergreens.

Question: In the last part of the selection, which sentence signals a major change in the action?
  1. About 30 degrees to the left of the snowslide -- footprints!
  2. Over there; he shouldn't die, he saved me.
  3. The two men were taken out by stretchers.
  4. That's a good omen for us, young lady.

Writing
✓ standard met

Writing prompt: Explain an author's use of description in a selection, and how the description shaped the way you viewed and understood the person, object, or event described.

Evaluator

Organization: Certica Solutions

6A: Recognizing Author's Intent

6A: Recognizing Author's Intent

Description: Recognizing Author's Purpose

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✓ standard met

Selection: K-39

K-39

Grade level: 11
Word count: 1650 words
Author: Christopher Morley
Synopsis: If you have ever been asked to write a certain number of words on a topic, you'll certainly understand the frustration expressed by the newspaper reporter who penned this essay.
Excerpt: We thought of some books we had seen up on East Fifty-ninth Street, in that admirable row of old bookshops, particularly Mowry Saben's volume of essays, "The Spirit of Life," which we are going back to buy one of these days, so please let it alone. We then got out a small notebook in which we keep memoranda of books we intend to read and pored over it zealously. Just for fun, we will tell you three of the titles we have noted there: "The Voyage of the Hoppergrass," by E.L. Pearson, "People and Problems," by Fabian Franklin, and "Broken Stowage," by David W. Bone.

Question: Why does Morley list the names of the books he purchased on Fifty-ninth Street in this essay?
  1. Listing the books adds words to the essay and brings him closer to meeting his word count.
  2. He wanted to make sure the books received some publicity.
  3. Listing the books allows him to demonstrate he is a well-read person.
  4. He was friendly with the authors of the books he mentions.

Writing
✓ standard met

Writing prompt: How effective were the words and writing style used by the author of a selection? Explain why.

Evaluator

Organization: Certica Solutions