Benchmark 3 (Summative Assessment)
A2: Wednesday March 2
B3: Thursday March 3
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Benchmark 3 Blueprint:
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ELAGSE11RL1:
Cite strong and thorough textual
evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly
as well as inferences drawn from the text, including determining where
the text leaves matters uncertain.
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ELAGSE11-12RL2:
Determine two or more themes or central ideas of text and analyze their
development over the course of the text, including how they interact and
build on one another to produce a complex account; provide an objective
summary of the text.
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ELAGSE11-12RL5 Analyze how an
author’s choices concerning how to structure specific parts of a text (e.g.,
the choice of where to begin or end a story, the choice to provide a comedic
or tragic resolution) contribute to its overall structure and meaning as well
as its aesthetic impact.
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Reading: Informational
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ELAGSE11-12RI1 Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support
analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from
the text, including determining where the text leaves matters uncertain.
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ELAGSE11-12RI2 Determine
two or more central ideas of a text and analyze their development over the
course of the text, including how they interact and build on one another to
provide a complex analysis; provide an objective summary of the text.
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ELAGSE11-12RI4:
Determine
the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including
figurative, connotative, and technical meanings; analyze how an author uses
and refines the meaning of a key term or terms over the course of a text
(e.g., how Madison defines faction in Federalist No. 10).
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ELAGSE11-12RI6 Determine
an author’s point of view or purpose in a text in which the rhetoric is
particularly effective, analyzing how style and content contribute to the
power, persuasiveness, or beauty of the text.
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Language
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ELAGSE11-12L1
b. Resolve issues of complex or
contested usage, consulting references (e.g., Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary
of English Usage, Garner’s Modern American English) as needed.
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ELAGSEL2a. Observes
hyphenation conventions.
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ELAGSE11-12L4b. Identify and
correctly use patterns of word changes that indicate different meanings or
parts of speech (e.g., conceive, conception, conceivable).
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ELAGSE11-12L5a. Interpret
figures of speech (e.g., hyperbole, paradox) in context and analyze their
role in the text.
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Highlighted
standards are those that will be reassessed from the Q1 and Q2 Benchmarks.
