11-12.RL.IKI.7
      Description:
        
          Literature
Integrate and evaluate content presented in diverse formats and media, including visually and quantitatively, as well as in words.
Evaluate the topic, subject, and/or theme in multiple diverse formats and media, including how the version interprets the source text.
        
    
    
      
        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:
                
                   L-10 
                
                
                  
              
              L-10
 Grade level:  12 
    
                    Word count: 2596 words 
                   Author: Edgar Allan Poe 
                   Synopsis: Edgar Allan Poe's classic short story gives a whole new meaning to the term "solitary confinement."
                
              
                
                  Excerpt:
                   No excerpt is available for this question.
                
              
              
              
                Question:
                The events in this tale could best be described by the expression
                
            
          - "Stuck between a rock and a hard place."
 - "Actions speak louder than words."
 - "Don't bite the hand that feeds you."
 - "The pen is mightier than the sword."
 
              Writing
              
                 ✓ standard met 
              
            
            
              
                  Writing prompt:
                  
                    (Theme: environment) Describe a selection in which a nature or the environment was represented in either a positive or negative way, and how this positive or negative view affected the characters and events in the selection.
                  
                
              Evaluator
                  Organization:
                  Certica Solutions