After reading literary and informational texts, scholars answer multiple-choice questions and write both a source-based argument and a text-analysis response.

Concepts

test preparation, literary analysis, reading comprehension, essay writing, argumentative writing, text analysis

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Additional Tags

english language arts

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Instructional Ideas

• Have small groups discuss Daylight Savings Time to brainstorm ideas for their writing
• Provide readers with sticky notes, highlighters, and other tools to mark up the text

Classroom Considerations

• Pupils must understand and be able to write about literary elements/techniques or rhetorical devices 

Pros

• The test questions address many Common Core standards
• Writing prompts include organized guidelines with bullets and bold text

Cons

Common Core

RL.9-10.1 RL.9-10.2 RL.9-10.3 RL.9-10.5 RL.11-12.1 RL.11-12.10a RI.9-10.1 RI.9-10.2 RI.9-10.4 RI.11-12.4 W.9-10.1.a W.11-12.1.a