E1.8.E
Description:
Analyze the use of literary devices such as irony and oxymoron to achieve specific purposes.
Maps to Reading Plus skills:
4C
Exemplars
4C: Visualizing
4C: Visualizing
Description:
Visualizing
SeeReader
✓ standard met
Selection:
K-15
K-15
Grade level: 11
Word count: 2278 words
Author: Jake Gibson
Synopsis: Einstein shattered many preconceived ideas about the universe.
Excerpt:
All entities with mass bend, distort, and manipulate the space encompassing them. The best way to visualize space and how celestial bodies interact with it is to imagine an elastic fabric stretching to the ends of the cosmos. If all stars, planets, and moons were aligned onto a single plane and positioned on the fabric, these astronomical bodies would stretch the fibers, dip, and create contours.
Question:
Space can be visualized as
- an elastic fabric.
- a colorful rainbow.
- a fixed plane.
- a static entity.
Writing
✓ standard met
Writing prompt:
Describe an example of a particularly vivid scene from a selection. Explain what technique the author used to create such a clear picture of the setting or event you found memorable.
Evaluator
Organization:
Certica Solutions