Literature - EC: L.F.1.1.2
Literature - EC: L.F.1.1.2
Continuum of Activities
The list below represents a continuum of activities: resources categorized by Standard/Eligible Content that teachers may use to move students toward proficiency. Using LEA curriculum and available materials and resources, teachers can customize the activity statements/questions for classroom use.
This continuum of activities offers:
- Instructional activities designed to be integrated into planned lessons
- Questions/activities that grow in complexity
- Opportunities for differentiation for each student’s level of performance
Grade Levels
Commencement
Course, Subject
English Language Arts, Literature
Related Academic Standards / Eligible Content
Activities
- Identify at least three devices from the text that support the author’s intended purpose.
- Choose at least two direct quotations from a text that best support the author’s purpose.
- Organize details from a text that support the author’s intended purpose, starting with the strongest evidence down to the least strong evidence. Develop a rationale for this order.
- In 2 to 3 sentences, interpret and analyze each selected quotation that best supports the author’s purpose.
- Using literary elements and devices from the text (characterization, setting, plot, figurative language, etc.), explain how each detail may support other themes beside that of the author’s intended purpose.
- Using at least three details from the text, develop a logical counter argument to the author’s intended purpose.
Answer Key/Rubric
- Student accurately identifies, in speech or in writing, at least three devices that support the author’s intended purpose. These may be, but are not limited to, examples of characterization, plot, setting, description, figurative language, etc.
- Student chooses two quotations that best exemplify, explain or illustrate an author’s intended purpose.
- Using a graphic organizer, students logically order details (from strongest to least strongest) from a text that support the author’s intended purpose. Student should be able to explain why some details more strongly support the author's purpose over others.
- Student can explain both the literal meaning of each selected quotation and can analyze and infer the quote’s meaning in how it supports the author’s intended purpose. Teacher may elect to develop a chart in which student copies the text, then paraphrases the text, then analyzes the text.
- Student is able to draw alternative conclusions, infer and interpret details from the text besides that of the author’s intended purpose. Students are able to identify ways in which these details may point to different conclusions outside the scope of their suggested original intention.
- Drawing specifically from details of the text, student is able to draw an alternative conclusion about the meaning of these details and how they may suggest a different interpretation than the author’s original intended purpose.
Suggested Rubric: This rubric may be used to assess a student’s overall mastery of the standard or eligible content.
