Summative Assessment #1

This assessment is designed to evaluate your proficiency in the following standards:  CCSS: W.11-12.4 - Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.
CCSS: RL.11-12.3. Analyze the impact of the author’s choices regarding how to develop and relate elements of the story or drama (for example, where the story is set, how the action is ordered, and how the characters are introduced and developed).
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.2
Determine two or more themes or central ideas of a text and analyze their development over the course of the text, including how they interact and build on one another to produce a complex account; provide an objective summary of the text.

Read:
“As the North Wind Howled” | The New Yorker

And answer the questions:
1.  

Writers use literary devices to signal to their readers important details that build the themes of their story, one such literary device used in the above story is ___________. _________ helps to develop the plot by showing the reader __________ about the story. For example  when it says ____________ this means _________, which builds the plot by ______.

2.
A possible theme for this story is ________________ because _______. On the other hand it could be _______ because ________.