R14.3 Socratic List Exercise: "What Does this Story Say About the Natural World? Does It Tell the Truth as the Author Saw It?"
Literary Core Skill:
Rhetoric Level 14: Relate details from the author’s life and times to the worldviews of various titles.
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Elements of Fiction:
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Description:
This worksheet asks for a paragraph- or page-length response to Worldview Socratic List question 3c based on a careful reading of the story and on additional teacher-provided biographical material about the author.
Grading Rubric:
Equal parts credit for a) clean grammar/syntax/punctuation, b) plausibility, and c) reference to the text. Paragraph- and page-length answers may also be graded on the 5-fold rubric, which is explained at www.centerforlitschools.com/5fold-grading-rubric.
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