R8.1 Short Answer Exercise: Can Personal Details of the Author's Life Help Us Understand the Story's Themes?
Literary Core Skill:
Rhetoric Level 8: Relate details from the author’s life and times to themes of various titles.
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Description:
This worksheet asks for a paragraph- or page-length response to Socratic List question 18g.
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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