Standard #: LAFS.8.RL.3.9 (Archived Standard)

Test Item Specifications

Item Type(s): This benchmark may be assessed using: TM , EBSR , MS , MC , SHT , DDHT item(s)
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Assessment Limits :
Items should focus primarily on the modern passage, not on the older text. When focusing on the older text, items should hone in on the connection between the two texts (rather than the older text itself) and pertain to matters of theme, pattern, events, or archetypes, rather than the overall meaning or non-essential information found in the older text.
Text Types :
Items assessing this standard may be used with two or more grade-appropriate literary texts. Texts may vary in complexity.
Response Mechanisms :
The Technology-Enhanced Item Descriptions section on pages 3 and 4 provides a list of Response Mechanisms that may be used to assess this standard (excluding the Editing Task Choice and Editing Task item types). The Sample Response Mechanisms may include, but are not limited to, the examples below.
Task Demand and Sample Response Mechanisms :

Task Demand
Analyze how a modern work of fiction draws on themes, patterns of events, or character types from myths, traditional stories, or religious works, including describing how the material is rendered new.
Sample Response Mechanisms
Multiple Choice
• Requires the student to select an analysis of how the modern work draws from older sources.
• Requires the student to select explicit or implicit details that support an analysis of how the modern work draws from older sources. 
Multiselect
• Requires the student to select multiple explicit or implicit details that support an analysis of how the modern work draws from older sources. 
Selectable Hot Text
• Requires the student to select an analysis or inference and then to select words or phrases from the text to support the analysis or inference selected. 
EBSR
• Requires the student to select an analysis or inference and then to select words or phrases from the text to support the analysis or inference selected.
Task Demand
Analyze how a modern work of fiction draws on themes, patterns of events, or character types from myths, traditional stories, or religious works, including describing how the material is rendered new.
Sample Response Mechanisms
Drag-and-Drop Hot Text
• Requires the student to compare and contrast the use of a particular element in two or more texts by dragging descriptions or analyses into a graphic organizer. 
Table Match
• Requires the student to complete a table that analyzes how a modern work of fiction renders aspects of myths, traditional stories, or religious works new.