CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.11-12.6

Description: Craft and Structure Determine an author’s point of view or purpose in a text in which the rhetoric is particularly effective, analyzing how style and content contribute to the power, persuasiveness, or beauty of the text.
Maps to Reading Plus skills: 6A, 6B

Exemplars

6A: Recognizing Author's Intent

6A: Recognizing Author's Intent

Description: Recognizing Author's Purpose

SeeReader
✓ standard met

Selection: L-8

L-8

Grade level: 12
Word count: 2551 words
Author: President John F. Kennedy
Synopsis: President Kennedy was convinced the Cold War would be won in space.
Excerpt: No excerpt is available for this question.
Question: Who was President Kennedy's real target audience for his September 1962 moon speech?
  1. the Soviets
  2. Rice University students and faculty
  3. Texas state officials
  4. astronauts

Writing
✓ standard met

Writing prompt: Describe how the author of an argument tries to prove that he or she is right.

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