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Literature - EC: L.F.2.3.5

Literature - EC: L.F.2.3.5

Continuum of Activities

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

Activities

  1. Identify the tone, diction, syntax and figurative language of a selected text.

  2. Quote at least one line that best illustrates the overall tone of a text.

  3. Choose at least three examples of figurative language and interpret these details.

  4. Compare the use of figurative language to the tone to see if there are patterns or similarities between the two.

  5. Choose a paragraph or section of a text with specific diction or syntax, and then analyze how these stylistic choices contribute to, advance or highlight the author’s voice.

  6. Analyze how the use of a narrator or speaker contributes to, advances or supports the tone and/or style of a text.

Answer Key/Rubric

  1. Students correctly recall the definitions of and then identify the use of tone, diction, syntax and figurative language in a given text.

  2. Students appropriately select a line from a text that best embodies, illustrates or demonstrates the overall tone. This line does not need to be a main idea, but should convey the mood or style of the text as a whole.

  3. Students recognize the use of figurative language in a text. Students also interpret these details to explain their meaning, how they relate to relative themes.

  4. Students demonstrate their understanding of the connections between the use of figurative language and the tone/style/mood of a piece.

  5. After identifying a paragraph or section of the text with amplified, pronounced or unique diction and/or syntax, students explain their use, then analyze how these choices support the mood/tone/style of a piece. Student is able to draw connections between specific word choice or sentence structure and the overall tone of a piece.

  6. Students apply the comparison between stylistic choice to tone through an examination of a narrator or speaker. Students recognize how the use of narrator/speaker advances the tone/style/mood of a piece.

Suggested Rubric:  This rubric may be used to assess a student’s overall mastery of the standard or eligible content.

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