Aligned Standard

ELA.EE.RL.11-12.5: Determine how the author's choice of where to end the story contributes to the meaning.

Grade Level Standard

This is aligned the following California State Standards:

  • RL.11-12.5 - 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.

Linkage Level Descriptions

Initial Precursor

The student can identify major observable events that occur in a familiar story.

Distal Precursor

When reading a story with a clear linear structure, the student is able to identify and describe events which take place in the beginning, middle, and end of a story.

Proximal Precursor

When presented with a text, the student is able to identify whether the text is a story, poem, or drama based on the structure and characteristics of the text. If the text is a story, the student can determine how the structure contributes to the meaning of the story.

Target

The student can demonstrate an understanding that how and when an author chooses to end a story can affect the meaning of the story.

Successor

After reading two or more texts, the student can recognize that how the author organized each text and its features affects the overall meaning of the text, and the student can compare and contrast the texts based on their structure and meaning.