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R.6

Description: Assess how point of view or purpose shapes the content and style of a text.
Maps to Reading Plus skills: 4C, 6B

Exemplars

4C: Visualizing

4C: Visualizing

Description: Visualizing

SeeReader
✓ standard met

Selection: L-23

L-23

Grade level: 12
Word count: 3221 words
Author: Stephen Crane
Synopsis: What will happen to the four men who have been shipwrecked for more than 30 hours?
Excerpt: When he achieved safe ground he fell, striking the sand with each particular part of his body. It was as if he had dropped from a roof, but the thud was grateful to him. It seems that instantly the beach was populated with men with blankets, clothes, and flasks, and women with coffeepots and all the remedies sacred to their minds. The welcome of the land to the men from the sea was warm and generous, but a still and dripping shape was carried slowly up the beach, and the land's welcome for it could only be the different and sinister hospitality of the grave.

Question: Based on this excerpt, which expression would you expect to see on the correspondent's face when he reaches the shore?
  1. pained but relieved
  2. calm and confident
  3. anguished and angry
  4. nervous but satisfied

Writing
✓ standard met

Writing prompt: How has visualizing helped you understand a selection when an author changes a point of view? Describe your visualization of the same scene through the eyes of different characters.

Evaluator

Organization: Certica Solutions

6B: Recognizing Persuasion

6B: Recognizing Persuasion

Description: Recognizing Persuasive Devices

SeeReader
✓ standard met

Selection: L-43

L-43

Grade level: 12
Word count: 2405 words
Author: Peter Kupfer
Synopsis: One man's talent for painting led to one of the biggest frauds to hit the art world.
Excerpt: "I made a knife to cut fruit," Qian added, "but if others use it to kill, blaming me is unfair."

Question: What did Qian mean when he said this?
  1. He may have created the fake paintings, but he should not be held accountable for selling them.
  2. While he was creating forgeries, he was also making legitimate art using knives and fruit.
  3. He thinks that forgery is not a serious crime, but killing someone is a horribly serious crime.
  4. He would have preferred to be a chef than an artist.

Writing
✓ standard met

Writing prompt: Imagine you want to make a documentary about a non-fiction selection you read. Describe the steps you would need to take to make your documentary as accurate and unbiased as possible.

Evaluator

Organization: Certica Solutions