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E4.4.D

Description: Create mental images to deepen understanding.
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
  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