Grade Band 9-10 Performance Assessment Sample: Merrell (Box Elder District) A Three Passage Text Set – Lincoln, Monk, and Hand Passage #1: Lincoln, Abraham. “Gettysburg Address.” (1863) Source: From Appendix B: Informational Text Exemplar for Grade Band 9-10 URL: Lexile: 1340 Placement: More Complex Word Count: 272 Passage #2: Monk, Linda R. Words We Live By: Your Annotated Guide to the Constitution. New York: Hyperion, 2003. (2003) Source: From Appendix B: Informational Text Exemplar: History/Social Studies for Grade Band 6-8 URL: Lexile: 1340 Placement: More Complex Word Count: 300 Passage #3: Hand, Learned. “I Am an American Day Address.” (1944) Source: From Appendix B: Informational Text Exemplar for Grade Band 9-10 URL: Lexile: 880 Placement: Less Complex Word Count: 57 Utah Core Standard(s): RI.9-10.1: Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly and inferred. RI.9-10.2: Determine a central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text, including how it emerges and is shaped and refined by specific details; provide an objective summary of the text. RI.9-10.5: Analyze in detail how an author’s ideas or claims are developed and refined by particular sentences, paragraphs, or larger portions of text. RI.9-10.8: Delineate and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, assessing whether the reasoning is valid and the evidence is relevant and sufficient. RI.9-10.9: Analyze seminal U.S. documents of historical and literary significance including how they address related themes and concepts. SL.9-10.1: Initiate and participate effectively in a range of collaborative discussions with diverse partners on grades 9-10 topics, texts, and issues, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly and persuasively. W.9-10.1: Write arguments to support claims in an analysis of substantive topics or texts, using valid reasoning and relevant and sufficient evidence.
Grade Band 9-10 Performance Assessment Sample: Merrell (Box Elder District) A Three Passage Text Set – Lincoln, Monk, and Hand Passage #1: Lincoln, Abraham. “Gettysburg Address.” (1863) Source: From Appendix B: Informational Text Exemplar for Grade Band 9-10 URL: Lexile: 1340 Placement: More Complex Word Count: 272 Passage #2: Monk, Linda R. Words We Live By: Your Annotated Guide to the Constitution. New York: Hyperion, 2003. (2003) Source: From Appendix B: Informational Text Exemplar: History/Social Studies for Grade Band 6-8 URL: Lexile: 1340 Placement: More Complex Word Count: 300 Passage #3: Hand, Learned. “I Am an American Day Address.” (1944) Source: From Appendix B: Informational Text Exemplar for Grade Band 9-10 URL: Lexile: 880 Placement: Less Complex Word Count: 57 Utah Core Standard(s): RI.9-10.1: Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly and inferred. RI.9-10.2: Determine a central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text, including how it emerges and is shaped and refined by specific details; provide an objective summary of the text. RI.9-10.5: Analyze in detail how an author’s ideas or claims are developed and refined by particular sentences, paragraphs, or larger portions of text. RI.9-10.8: Delineate and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, assessing whether the reasoning is valid and the evidence is relevant and sufficient. RI.9-10.9: Analyze seminal U.S. documents of historical and literary significance including how they address related themes and concepts. SL.9-10.1: Initiate and participate effectively in a range of collaborative discussions with diverse partners on grades 9-10 topics, texts, and issues, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly and persuasively. W.9-10.1: Write arguments to support claims in an analysis of substantive topics or texts, using valid reasoning and relevant and sufficient evidence.
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