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E4.2.B

Description: Analyze context to draw conclusions about nuanced meanings such as in imagery.
Maps to Reading Plus skills: 4C, 8B

Exemplars

8B: Reasoning

8B: Reasoning

Description: Reasoning

SeeReader
✓ standard met

Selection: K-31

K-31

Grade level: 11
Word count: 2673 words
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
Synopsis: Life is altered forever when Pandora opens a mysterious box.
Excerpt: But Pandora, heeding nothing of all this, lifted the lid nearly upright, and looked inside. Chaos ensued. It seemed as if a sudden swarm of winged creatures brushed past her, taking flight out of the box, while, at the same instant, she heard the voice of Epimetheus, with a lamentable tone, as if he were in pain.

What had made their escape out of the solitary box? They were the whole family of earthly Troubles. There were evil passions and a great many species of cares. There were more than a 150 sorrows. There were diseases in a vast number of miserable and painful shapes. There were more kinds of naughtiness than it would be of any use to discuss.

Question: Answer these two questions. What do the winged characters represent and how do they change the world?
  1. They symbolize human problems.
  2. They transform the world from pleasure to misery.
  3. They symbolize suffering.
  4. They transform the world from despair to delight.
  5. They symbolize ancient gods.

Writing
✓ standard met

Writing prompt: Should fictional stories show the world as it really is, or as it should be? Use details from a selection you have read, as well as your reasoning skills and personal experiences, to write your answer.

Evaluator

Organization: Certica Solutions

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
  1. an elastic fabric.
  2. a colorful rainbow.
  3. a fixed plane.
  4. 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