Text: Refers to novels, non-fiction (articles, interviews, memoirs), songs, images, podcasts, essays, or media.
Common Core Note: Students must grapple with works of exceptional craft and thought whose range extends across genres, cultures, and centuries. Such works offer profound insights into the human condition and serve as models for students own thinking and writing. Common Core texts include classics of American Literature, timeless dramas of Shakespeare, seminal US documents (including speeches, Supreme Court opinions and dissents), and high quality contemporary works.
Elements: Refers to the literary (plot, theme development, character development) or textual (author’s purpose or choices, central message development) elements an author utilizes in a text. For more on the types of elements an artifact might focus on, click here.
In order to design an Analysis artifact, it is helpful separate elements into two different categories: literary elements and textual elements.
Literary Elements: this refers to the elements utilized in fiction or stories. The following list gives examples of literary elements a teacher can focus in in writing an analysis prompt. Each element has the common core standard that the element relates to. After selecting a literary element to focus on, it is helpful to read that specific standard in order to understand the depth of thinking a student needs to engage in to be on grade level.
Textual Elements: this refers to the elements utilized in non-fiction articles and arguments. The following list gives examples of textual elements a teacher can focus in in writing an analysis prompt. Each element has the common core standard that the element relates to. After selecting a literary element to focus on, it is helpful to read that specific standard in order to understand the depth of thinking a student needs to engage in to be on grade level.