Performance Indicator

ELA.7.W.2.B: Students write interpretive and responsive essays of approximately three pages to:

• express opinions and support them through specific references to the text
• demonstrate understanding of plot and theme
• identify and describe characters and their motivations
• analyze the impact of the setting
• explain how the use of literary devices, such as symbolism, metaphor and simile, personification, and flashback, affects meaning
• draw conclusions and provide reasons for the conclusions
• compare and contrast characters, setting, mood, and voice in more than one literary text or performance
• make connections between literary text and personal experience or knowledge