For this target, you will read a piece of fiction text of your choice (a short story) and analyze it for author's purpose and perspective, using textual evidence to support your analysis.
There is a set of questions to earn a 3 and a set to earn a 4. They are on the same document but you need to scroll down for the 4.
Here is a link to fiction stories that you can read to complete this analysis. You do not have to choose one of these. If there is something else you would rather read, OK it with me first.
Rubric
Analyze in detail the development of two or more themes or central ideas over the course of a work of literature, including how they emerge and are shaped and refined by specific details.
Analyze how dynamic characters develop over the course of a text, interact with other characters, and advance the plot or develop the theme.
Analyze and evaluate how an author’s choices concerning how to structure a work of literature, order events within it (e.g., parallel episodes), and manipulate time (e.g., pacing, flashbacks) create such effects as mystery, tension, or surprise.
Analyze how the author creates such effects as suspense or humor through differences in the points of view of the characters and the reader (e.g., created through the use of dramatic irony).
Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what a text says explicitly as well as inferences and interpretations drawn from the text.
Identify two themes of the text, explaining how you came to this conclusion.
Analyze how dynamic characters changed from the beginning of the text, explaining the importance of this change.
Analyze in detail how an author’s choice to manipulate time creates mystery, tension, or suspense.
Analyze how the author’s choice of point-of-view affects the plot of the story. Explain how the story would be different if written in another POV.
Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what a text says explicitly as well as inferences and interpretations drawn from the text.