LAFS.910.RI.3.9Archived Standard

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Analyze seminal U.S. documents of historical and literary significance (e.g., Washington’s Farewell Address, the Gettysburg Address, Roosevelt’s Four Freedoms speech, King’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail”), including how they address related themes and concepts.
General Information
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Grade: 910
Strand: Reading Standards for Informational Text
Idea: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
Cluster: Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Date Adopted or Revised: 12/10
Content Complexity Rating: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts - More Information
Date of Last Rating: 02/14
Status: State Board Approved - Archived
Assessed: Yes
Test Item Specifications
  • Item Type(s): This benchmark may be assessed using: TM , EBSR , MS , MC , OR , SHT item(s)

  • Assessment Limits :
    Items should be used with paired texts, as at least two documents are necessary to meet the standard. Items should focus on the similarities and differences between the texts. Items may focus primarily on either text, but items should indicate or test for understanding of a clear link between the two works.
  • Text Types :
    Items assessing this standard may be used with two or more grade-appropriate seminal U.S. documents. 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 seminal U.S. documents of historical and literary significance, including how they address related themes and concepts.

    Sample Response Mechanisms

    Selectable Hot Text

    • Requires the student to select sentences or phrases from each work that show similarities or differences between how the works address related themes and concepts.
    • Requires the student to select a similarity or difference between the works’ treatment of themes and concepts and then select how this affects the meaning of the works. 

    Multiple Choice

    • Requires the student to select examples from the text that show the works’ similarities or differences in their treatments of similar themes and/or concepts.
    • Requires the student to select an explanation of how the works treat similar themes/concepts in a similar or different manner. 

    Open Response

    • Requires the student to analyze how the two texts treat similar themes or concepts in one or two sentences. 

    Multiselect

    • Requires the student to select multiple sentences from a passage that share similarities with the ideas of another passage in the set.

    Task Demand

    Analyze seminal U.S. documents of historical and literary significance, including how they address related themes and concepts.

    Sample Response Mechanisms

    EBSR

    • Requires the student to first select a generalized similarity or difference between passages and then to select a phrase or sentence from an excerpt from each that illustrates this similarity or difference. 

    Table Match

    • Requires the student to complete a table by analyzing seminal U.S. documents in light of their presentation of related themes and concepts.

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