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LAFS.910.RL.1.3

Description: Analyze how complex characters (e.g., those with multiple or conflicting motivations) develop over the course of a text, interact with other characters, and advance the plot or develop the theme.
Maps to Reading Plus skills: 3A, 3B, 3C

Exemplars

3C: Analyzing Cause/Effect

3C: Analyzing Cause/Effect

Description: Analyzing Cause and Effect

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✓ standard met

Selection: J-17

J-17

Grade level: 10
Word count: 2251 words
Author: Guy de Maupassant
Synopsis: Simple actions may sometimes lead to unexpected, dire consequences.
Excerpt: It was market day, and from all the country round Goderville the peasants and their wives were coming toward the town. The men walked slowly, throwing their whole bodies forward with every step of their long, crooked legs. They were deformed from pushing the plough which makes the left shoulder higher, and bends their figures sideways; from reaping the grain, when they have to spread their legs so as to keep on their feet. Their starched blue blouses, glossy as though varnished, ornamented at the collar and cuffs with a little embroidered design and blown out around their bony bodies, looked very much like balloons about to soar, from which issued two arms and two feet.

Question: Which two activities does the author cite as causing the peasant men at the marketplace in Goderville to have "deformed" bodies?
  1. pushing a plough
  2. reaping grain
  3. feeding cows
  4. irrigating crops
  5. riding horses

Writing
✓ standard met

Writing prompt: Give an example of how recognizing cause and effect helped you better understand the plot development of a selection.

Evaluator

Organization: Curriculum Design Institute

3B: Analyzing Plot/Character

3B: Analyzing Plot/Character

Description: Analyzing setting, plot, and character

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✓ standard met

Selection: J-17

J-17

Grade level: 10
Word count: 2251 words
Author: Guy de Maupassant
Synopsis: Simple actions may sometimes lead to unexpected, dire consequences.
Excerpt: Monsieur Hauchecorne, of Breaute, had just arrived at Goderville and was making his way toward the square when he perceived on the ground a little piece of string. Monsieur Hauchecorne, economical as are all true Normans, reflected that everything was worth picking up which could be of any use, and he stooped down, but painfully, because he suffered from rheumatism. He took the bit of thin string from the ground and was carefully preparing to roll it up when he saw Monsieur Malandain, the harness maker, on his doorstep staring at him. They had once had a quarrel about a halter, and they had borne each other malice ever since.

Question: Before he picked up the piece of string, Hauchecorne's relationship with Malandain can best be described as
  1. confrontational.
  2. respectful.
  3. cordial.
  4. neighborly.

Writing
✓ standard met

Writing prompt: Imagine you are the main character in a selection you read. Would your emotional reactions to events in the selection be the same as those of the actual character? Explain why or why not.

Evaluator

Organization: Curriculum Design Institute

3A: Predicting Outcomes

3A: Predicting Outcomes

Description: Predicting Outcomes

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: Skylar's relationship with Jason, one of the few seniors in Mr. Crawford's American literature class and her boyfriend for the past year, had become noticeably stressed and strained. Jason, meanwhile, glanced surreptitiously at Skylar, joking around with Conner and some other friends on the opposite side of the classroom.

Although their romantic feelings returned, neither of them lost sight of their convictions for the future, and they finally reached a mutual understanding. "I'm not disappointed anymore," Skylar admitted. "I felt rejected at first, but now that we've addressed things, I get your drift, as my parents would say."

Question: Based on what you have read, what could have happened if Jason had complained about being partnered with Skylar?
  1. Jason and Skylar would not have repaired their relationship while in the same class.
  2. Jason would have complained about being partnered with Amanda.
  3. Jason and Skylar would have received a poor grade on their assignment.
  4. Skylar would have complained about being partnered with Jason.

Writing
✓ standard met

Writing prompt: (Theme: relationships) Describe a character who struggled with society or family and how/if that struggle was resolved.

Evaluator

Organization: Curriculum Design Institute