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E4.6.A

Description: Analyze relationships among thematic development, characterization, point of view, significance of setting, and plot in a variety of literary texts.
Maps to Reading Plus skills: 1A, 2A

Exemplars

1A: Recalling Explicit Details

1A: Recalling Explicit Details

Description: Identifying explicit details including character, time, setting and speaker

SeeReader
✓ standard met

Selection: J-11

J-11

Grade level: 10
Word count: 2199 words
Author: Diane Lang
Synopsis: Skylar and Jason's relationship is already strained when they're paired together for a class project. Will their "no-technology" challenge make them, or break them?
Excerpt: "Okay, ladies and gents," Mr. Crawford began, "in our last class we discussed some of Henry David Thoreau's ideas about nature as expressed in his book, 'Walden,' particularly the notion Thoreau had of Walden pond as an eye -- 'intermediate in its nature between land and sky.' As you might recall, Thoreau's self-built one-room cabin was on his good friend Ralph Waldo Emerson's land, where he experimented in living independently as he sought self-fulfillment and closure over his brother's death."

Question: According to Mr. Crawford, for which two reasons did Thoreau conduct his "experiment" at Walden Pond?
  1. to seek self-fulfillment
  2. to find closure over his brother's death
  3. to spend time with his friend Emerson
  4. to understand more about nature
  5. to learn how to build a cabin

Writing
✓ standard met

Writing prompt: The setting of a selection includes not only place but also time. Describe a selection you have read in which the historical time period was critical to the plot. For example, Charles Dickens' "A Tale of Two Cities.'

Evaluator

Organization: Certica Solutions

2A: Determining Main Idea

2A: Determining Main Idea

Description: Determining Main Idea and Themes

SeeReader
✓ standard met

Selection: J-11

J-11

Grade level: 10
Word count: 2199 words
Author: Diane Lang
Synopsis: Skylar and Jason's relationship is already strained when they're paired together for a class project. Will their "no-technology" challenge make them, or break them?
Excerpt: No excerpt is available for this question.
Question: What is the main idea of this selection?
  1. Face-to-face interaction can lead to a personal understanding that technology doesn't always allow.
  2. We must each find a purposeful path to follow in life that is different from that of our peers.
  3. Creative teachers provide learning environments that inspire and encourage individual discoveries.
  4. Teenagers benefit from relationships the most when they date more than one person in high school.

Writing
✓ standard met

Writing prompt: Explain how the author presents a theme in a selection through plot, characters, and setting. Describe the events that embody the theme.

Evaluator

Organization: Certica Solutions