General Information
Test Item Specifications
- Requires the student to select words or phrases from the text that provide explicit support for a point of view in the passage.
- Requires the student to select an analysis of a point of view and then to select words or phrases from the text to support the analysis selected.
- Requires the student to select an analysis about how a point of view is developed or contrasted in the text.
- Requires the student to select multiple explicit or implicit details from the text that support a point of view.
- Requires the student to explain in words how a point of view is developed or contrasted in the text.
- Requires the student to place multiple explicit or implicit details from the text that support a point of view into appropriate spaces on a diagram.
- Requires the student to complete a table that contrasts the points of view of different characters or narrators in a text.
Items should not simply ask the student to identify points of view but should focus on how the author develops and contrasts characters’ perspectives or viewpoints throughout the text. Items may ask about one or more characters or narrators.
Items assessing this standard may be used with one or more grade-appropriate literary texts. Texts may vary in complexity
The Technology-Enhanced Item Descriptions section on pages 3 and 4 provides a list of Response Mechanisms that may be used to assess this standard (excluding the Editing Task Choice and Editing Task item types). The Sample Response Mechanisms may include, but are not limited to, the examples below.
Task Demand
Analyze how an author develops and contrasts the points of view of different characters or narrators in a text.
Sample Response Mechanisms
Selectable Hot Text
EBSR
Multiple Choice
Multiselect
Open Response
GRID
Table Match
Related Courses
| Course Number1111 | Course Title222 |
| 1000000: | M/J Intensive Language Arts (MC) (Specifically in versions: 2014 - 2015, 2015 - 2018, 2018 and beyond (current)) |
| 1000010: | M/J Intensive Reading 1 (Specifically in versions: 2014 - 2015, 2015 - 2021, 2021 and beyond (current)) |
| 1000020: | M/J Intensive Reading and Career Planning (Specifically in versions: 2014 - 2015, 2015 - 2019, 2019 - 2021, 2021 and beyond (current)) |
| 1001040: | M/J Language Arts 2 (Specifically in versions: 2014 - 2015, 2015 - 2022, 2022 and beyond (current)) |
| 1001050: | M/J Language Arts 2 Advanced (Specifically in versions: 2014 - 2015, 2015 - 2022, 2022 - 2023, 2023 and beyond (current)) |
| 1002010: | M/J Language Arts 2 Through ESOL (Specifically in versions: 2014 - 2015, 2015 - 2022, 2022 and beyond (current)) |
| 1002180: | M/J English Language Development (MC) (Specifically in versions: 2014 - 2015, 2015 - 2018, 2018 - 2022, 2022 and beyond (current)) |
| 1008040: | M/J Reading 2 (Specifically in versions: 2014 - 2015, 2015 - 2021 (course terminated)) |
| 1008050: | M/J Reading 2, Advanced (Specifically in versions: 2013 - 2015, 2015 - 2021 (course terminated)) |
| 7810012: | Access M/J Language Arts 2 (Specifically in versions: 2014 - 2015, 2015 - 2018, 2018 - 2022, 2022 and beyond (current)) |
| 1002181: | M/J Developmental Language Arts Through ESOL (Reading) (Specifically in versions: 2014 - 2015, 2015 - 2022, 2022 and beyond (current)) |
Related Resources
Lesson Plans
| Name | Description |
| Close Reading Exemplar: "Unbroken" and "Farewell to Manzanar" | As students will have previous exposure to the historical themes and factual information about the attacks on Pearl Harbor, the United States involvement in WWII, and the internment of Japanese in camps throughout the western United States, this lesson exemplar will allow students to participate in critical discussion of two stories that illuminate important, yet divergent, experiences of war and conflict. This lesson exemplar will push students to think critically about the experience of wartime as felt by both soldiers and civilians as they navigated specific trials that were a part of their direct or peripheral involvement in WWII. |
| Close Reading Exemplar: Tom Sawyer | The goal of this one day exemplar is to give students the opportunity to use the reading and writing habits they've been practicing on a regular basis to discover the rich humor and moral lesson embedded in Twain's text. By reading and rereading the passage closely, and focusing their reading through a series of questions and discussion about the text, students will explore the problem Tom Sawyer faced and how he "solved" his conundrum. When combined with writing about the passage, students will learn to appreciate how Twain's humor contains a deeper message and derive satisfaction from the struggle to master complex text. At the end of the lesson, students are provided two writing prompts to constructive a narrative inspired by Twain's text. |
| Government Knows Best! | Government take over is upon the United States--well, it is in the short story "Harrison Bergeron" by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr! In this lesson, students in your classroom will question if we are all treated equally and if we really want equality "every which way." This close reading lesson allows students to explore cause and effect relationships in this engaging, dystopian short story. Students are also challenged to compare the messages in "Harrison Bergeron" with the poem "Government of Evil." Graphic organizers, text-dependent questions, answer keys, and a writing rubric for the summative assessment are included with the lesson. |
Original Student Tutorial
| Name | Description |
| Fender Bender: Analyzing Points of View | Learn to analyze the differing points of view of various characters within a story. In this interactive tutorial, you'll read a short story about a fender bender that occurs between a teacher and student and identify the objective and subjective statements made by each character as they relay their version of events. |
Student Resources
Original Student Tutorial
| Name | Description |
| Fender Bender: Analyzing Points of View: | Learn to analyze the differing points of view of various characters within a story. In this interactive tutorial, you'll read a short story about a fender bender that occurs between a teacher and student and identify the objective and subjective statements made by each character as they relay their version of events. |