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11-12.L.VAU.5

Description: Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in word meanings. Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in word meanings in grades 11-12 reading and content; interpret figures of speech in context and analyze their role in a text; analyze nuances in the meaning of words with similar denotations.
Maps to Reading Plus skills: 4B, 6A

Exemplars

6A: Recognizing Author's Intent

6A: Recognizing Author's Intent

Description: Recognizing Author's Purpose

SeeReader
✓ standard met

Selection: K-6

K-6

Grade level: 11
Word count: 2418 words
Author: Diane Lang
Synopsis: After a serious football injury, Sam gets a highly trained monkey that not only assists him physically but helps him emotionally.
Excerpt: Sam gazed up at the full moon, and then back at Avery and Gretchen. "I'm coming back, Avery, I know it, like a work in progress."

Sam continued to hold Avery's hand as he sang "Dancing in the Moonlight," with Avery wheeling his chair side to side and Gretchen shrieking and clapping her hands.

Question: Why does the author use the images of "dancing" and "moonlight" in the selection?
  1. to emphasize her theme of miracles and hope
  2. to demonstrate how Gretchen liked to imitate Sam.
  3. to highlight the importance of Sam's football game
  4. to reinforce Gretchen's ability to brighten Sam's life

Writing
✓ standard met

Writing prompt: Assess the value or importance of an author's choice of prose, setting, or characterization in a selection.

Evaluator

Organization: Certica Solutions

4B: Interpreting Analogies

4B: Interpreting Analogies

Description: Interpreting Analogies

SeeReader
✓ standard met

Selection: K-13

K-13

Grade level: 11
Word count: 2110 words
Author: Katherine Menard
Synopsis: A growing segment of the population is becoming more knowledgeable about food sources and purchasing produce directly from local farmers.
Excerpt: One of the most significant elements of CSAs is the concept of shared risk. This is most obvious in the way a CSA operation is financed. Shareholders' up-front payments, like all investments, are based on potential, not actuality. Nobody can predict with certainty how much the farm will produce in a given year.

Question: When a consumer joins a CSA, the process can be compared to
  1. buying a stock whose profitability is determined by future conditions.
  2. joining a club that requires members to spend a certain amount on food.
  3. taking a part-time job that helps people in your community.
  4. coaching a sports team to get the best results during the season.

Writing
✓ standard met

Writing prompt: Describe how metaphor, simile, hyperbole, or personification is used in a selection and explain how it enhances or distracts from the selection.

Evaluator

Organization: Certica Solutions