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8.5.D

Description: Create mental images to deepen understanding.
Maps to Reading Plus skills: 4C, 4C

Exemplars

4C: Visualizing

4C: Visualizing

Description: Visualizing

SeeReader
✓ standard met

Selection: H-11

H-11

Grade level: 8
Word count: 1765 words
Author: Ben Robinson
Synopsis: On a memorable night in Florida, Cassius Clay faces Sonny Liston, the world champion.
Excerpt: Swiftness and mobility are not generally the calling cards of a heavyweight, but Clay had both. His fights were like ballet performances, as he danced around his opponents instead of standing close and firing punches as most heavyweights do. Because of this, he was tough to catch. His quick hands allowed him to burst into collisions, and then his equally swift feet enabled him to back out before opponents knew what had happened.

Question: If you were watching a Clay boxing match, you most likely would see Clay
  1. dancing around his opponent.
  2. protecting his face with his hands.
  3. firing punch after punch at his opponent.
  4. never backing away from his opponent.

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

4C: Visualizing

4C: Visualizing

Description: Visualizing

SeeReader
✓ standard met

Selection: H-6

H-6

Grade level: 8
Word count: 1907 words
Author: Edgar Allan Poe
Synopsis: No one can escape death by hiding behind a mask.
Excerpt: Now in no one of the seven rooms was there any lamp amid the profusion of golden ornaments that lay scattered to and fro or that hung from the roof. But in the corridors that followed the suite, there stood, opposite each window, a heavy tripod, bearing a metal bowl of fire that projected its rays through the tinted glass and so glaringly illumined the room. And thus were produced a multitude of gaudy and fantastic appearances.

Question: If you took a tour of the section of the abbey with the seven rooms, you would see
  1. garish rays of light reflecting off tinted glass.
  2. elaborate lamps hanging from the roof.
  3. bright sunlight streaming in through clear windows.
  4. dark corridors having no source of illumination.

Writing
✓ standard met

Writing prompt: Describe how you relate scenes you visualize from reading with real life scenes. Give examples.

Evaluator

Organization: Certica Solutions