Access Point #: LAFS.1112.RL.1.AP.3aArchived Access Point

Analyze the author’s choices about what is developed and included in the text and what is not developed and included related to story elements.
Clarifications:

Essential Understandings

  • Identify elements of a story’s plot (e.g., exposition, rising action, climax, falling action and resolution.)
  • Identify the author’s effect (e.g., tension, suspense and surprise) for a text.
  • Identify the overall meaning.
  • Given story elements for a text, discuss why author would select the information in each element over other choices (e.g., “Why did the author in Lord of the Flies put the boys on an island instead of an apartment building in a city?”).
  • Given choices for alternatives to the ending of a provided text, discuss why an author chose the ending within the text.
  • Identify story elements that are included but not developed.
General Information
Number: LAFS.1112.RL.1.AP.3a
Category: Access Points
Date Adopted or Revised: 06/14

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