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[|Checklist] http://www.louisianavoices.org/edu_glossary.html 1. Refine comprehension skills by reading and analyzing a variety of self-selected and assigned literary texts including print and non-print a. Critically listen to, read, and discuss a variety of literary texts representing diverse cultures, perspectives, ethnicities, and time periods b. Critically listen to, read and discuss a variety of literary forms and genres

2. Analyze and evaluate text features to facilitate and extend understanding of literary texts a. Analyze text features that contribute to meaning Assessment Limits: • Title of the book, story, poem, or play • Titles of chapters • Introduction/preface • Subtitles, subheadings • Illustrations • Photographs • Punctuation • Print features • Footnoted words and phrases • Biographical information about the author

3. Analyze and evaluate elements of narrative texts to facilitate understanding and interpretation a. Distinguish among types of narrative text Assessment Limits: • Fiction and nonfiction, such as short stories; realistic, historical, and science fiction; folklore, fantasy; essays; personal narratives; memoirs;journals; biographies; autobiographies • Plays • Lyric and narrative poetry b. Analyze the conflict and its role in advancing the plot Assessment Limits: • Narrative text with exposition, rising action, climax, and resolution • Conflicts between or within characters or between and external forces • Connections between the resolution of the conflict and the development of the plot • Subplots c. Analyze details that provide information about the setting, the mood created by the setting, and the role the setting plays in the text Assessment Limits: • Immediate time and place of the action as well as its larger context • Connections among the characters, the setting, and the mood • Connections between setting and theme d. Analyze the characterization based on what character says, does, and thinks and what other characters or the narrator says Assessment Limits: • Characters’ traits • Characters’ motivations • Characters’ personal growth and development e. Analyze relationships between and among characters, setting, and events Assessment Limits: • Connections between and among characters • Connections between and among situations • Cause-effect relationships between characters’ actions and the results of those actions • Cause-effect relationships between and among events f. Analyze the actions of characters that serve to advance the plot • Connections between the actions of the characters and the outcome of the plot g. Analyze internal and or external conflicts that motivate characters and those that advance the plot. Assessment Limits: • Conflicts that affect characters’ actions • Conflicts that advance the action of the plot h. Analyze the author’s approach to issues of time in a narrative Assessment Limits: • Flashback • Foreshadowing • Parallel action/episodes i. Analyze the point of view and its effect on meaning Assessment Limits: • First versus third person limited or omniscient point of view • Connections between point of view and meaning • Conclusions about the narrator based on his/her thoughts and/or observations j. Analyze the interactions among narrative elements and their contribution to meaning Assessment Limits: • Connections among all narrative elements that create meaning

4. Analyze and evaluate elements of poetry to facilitate understanding and interpretation a. Use structural features to distinguishes among types of poetry Assessment Limits: • Types of categories and types of poems, such as narrative, lyric, ballad, elegy, etc. b. Analyze language and structural features to determine meaning Assessment Limits: • Literal versus figurative meaning, including the use of simile, metaphor, hyperbole, personification, symbolism, and irony • Specific meaning of words, lines and/or stanzas • Contribution of structural features, such as line length and stanza divisions, to meaning c. Analyze sound elements of poetry that contribute to meaning Assessment Limits: • Rhyme, rhyme scheme • Rhythm • Alliteration (assonance, consonance) • Connections between sound elements and meaning d. Analyze other poetic elements, such as setting, mood, tone, etc. that contribute to meaning

5. Analyze and evaluate elements of drama to facilitate understanding and interpretation a. Use structural features to distinguish among types of dramas