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This close reading assessment features 10 text-dependent, high-order questions to promote improved reading comprehension and analysis of Shakespeare’s Love’s Labour’s Lost (Act 4, scene 1).
An answer key is included, as are Word Document and PDF versions of the assessment. All materials are delivered in a zip file.
This resource aligns well to Academic Literacy Project teaching principles and may serve as the basis for small-group discussions. Through these discussions, students decode language and pose/respond to questions relating to plot, broad topics, and character development, demonstrating an ability to analyze how complex characters transform and advance the plot and themes by applying logic and citing compelling, meaningful textual evidence. They will also evaluate their peers’ reasoning and use of rhetoric to advance claims, clarifying or challenging unclear ideas. Using this resource for structured guidance, students, ultimately, will present information, conclusions, and supporting textual evidence clearly, concisely, and appropriately, thereby helping their peers comprehend their thinking.
In addition to helping students gain deeper understanding of the material and greater confidence in their ability to read and comprehend complex texts, this resource was designed to prepare students for ACT-style questioning.
By engaging in this exercise, students will:
- Discern and articulate what the text states explicitly and implicitly
- Define complex words and phrases in context, taking into consideration denotative meanings and connotative associations
- Articulate the intended meaning of a given metaphor
- Articulate how verbal irony is manifested in the text
- Analyze how complex characters interact and discern what these interactions reveal about their mindsets
- Analyze an excerpt to isolate a true statement in context from false statements
- Apply knowledge of epiphora to the text
- Identify logical inferences in context
- Analyze Armado’s letter and articulate the function of an excerpt
- Interpret figurative language
- Analyze Rosaline’s dialogue and actions to argue how she defies standard conventions of femininity and what her motivations are
- Analyze Shakespeare’s craft to identify which literary devices he employs and what their intended effects are (emphasis is placed on rhyme, innuendo, diacope, metaphor, and irony)
- Write with clarity, logic, and precision
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