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Item Type(s):
This benchmark may be assessed using:
TM
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MC
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OR
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GR
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SHT
item(s)
- Assessment Limits :
Items can be overarching questions about the structure of the entire text or about specific structural devices. Items should ask the student to analyze, not just determine, the author’s choices. However, a two-part item may ask the student to determine and then analyze. - Text Types :
Items assessing this standard may be used with one or more grade-appropriate literary texts. Texts may vary in complexity. - Response Mechanisms :
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 and Sample Response Mechanisms :
Task Demand
Analyze the way in which an author creates a given effect through structural decisions.
Sample Response Mechanisms
Selectable Hot Text
- Requires the student to select sentences or phrases in the text that create a given effect.
- Requires the student to select a structural device used by an author and then to determine the effect of this device on the work as a whole.
Multiple Choice
- Requires the student to select the correct analysis of an author’s structural choice.
Open Response
- Requires the student to explain, in one or two sentences, how the author’s choices regarding structure contribute to the meaning of a text.
GRID
- Requires the student to drag into a diagram plot elements that work to create a certain effect.
Table Match
- Requires the student to complete a table by matching an author’s structural choices with the effects they create.
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Original Student Tutorials for Language Arts - Grades 6-12
Learn to identify how authors create mystery, tension, and suspense within a story. In this interactive tutorial, you will learn how Richard Connell used exposition, foreshadowing, pacing, and the manipulation of time to build tension and suspense in the short story "The Most Dangerous Game."
This tutorial is Part One of a two-part series. In Part One, you'll learn about the use of plot twists and their impact on a text. In this interactive tutorial, you'll examine two ways authors often create plot twists within a story. Reading excerpts from the short story "The Interlopers," you'll analyze and explain how the author creates several plot twists in the story by purposely setting and disrupting expectations for readers.
After completing Part One, click HERE for Part Two.
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Original Student Tutorials
Learn to identify how authors create mystery, tension, and suspense within a story. In this interactive tutorial, you will learn how Richard Connell used exposition, foreshadowing, pacing, and the manipulation of time to build tension and suspense in the short story "The Most Dangerous Game."
Type: Original Student Tutorial
This tutorial is Part One of a two-part series. In Part One, you'll learn about the use of plot twists and their impact on a text. In this interactive tutorial, you'll examine two ways authors often create plot twists within a story. Reading excerpts from the short story "The Interlopers," you'll analyze and explain how the author creates several plot twists in the story by purposely setting and disrupting expectations for readers.
After completing Part One, click HERE for Part Two.
Type: Original Student Tutorial
Tutorial
A great way to understand literature from epic poetry to literary series is to understand what makes a hero. In this very engaging animated video from TEDed, you will learn about the hero cycle, a common literary trope that can been found in many works like Harry Potter, The Hunger Games and even The Odyssey!
Type: Tutorial
