2.R.2.C.a

Description: Drama identify characters, setting, acts, and scenes in plays
Maps to Reading Plus skills: 3B

Exemplars

3B: Analyzing Plot/Character

3B: Analyzing Plot/Character

Description: Analyzing setting, plot, and character

SeeReader
✓ standard met

Selection: B-30

B-30

Grade level: 2
Word count: 1093 words
Author: Adapted from a story by Michael H. Levitt.
Synopsis: The best leader isn't always the biggest or the strongest.
Excerpt: "So you think Dakota's mask is funny," said someone behind them. Everyone turned. It was Maka, the tall village chief.

"No, Maka," the kids said.

Maka added, "All kinds of animals come together. For this one night, they are all friends."

The kids were silent, listening to Maka. "Tonight is the night that animals will come together. We must be ready to help them pick their king. Our village will come together just as the animals do. We will all work and play together."

Question: Which two of the following statements about Maka are correct?
  1. He was not happy when the other children made fun of Dakota.
  2. He was a tall man who was the village chief.
  3. He agreed that Dakota was too small to make a wolf mask.
  4. He told Dakota to catch the wolf and bring it to the village.
  5. He forced the wolf to become the leader of the animals.

Writing
✓ standard met

Writing prompt: Describe a character from a selection, including how he or she looks, something the character might say, and the kinds of books this character might like to read.

Evaluator

Organization: Certica Solutions