This close reading assessment features 11 text-dependent, high-order questions to promote improved reading comprehension and analysis of Shakespeare’s Love’s Labour’s Lost (Act 1, scene 2). An answer key is included, as are Word Document and PDF versions of the assessment.
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
- Make reasonable inferences about why the quickness of Moth’s responses frustrates Armado
- Articulate Armado’s internal conflict in the context of an excerpt
- Analyze Moth’s dialogue to discern what is implied about women who wear makeup
- Analyze Moth’s asides to discern and articulate what they reveal about his true feelings
- Conduct brief research on the topic of Humorism
- Analyze Costard’s use of malaprops and explain why Shakespeare had him speak in such a manner
- Interpret figurative language with emphasis on metaphor (“love is a devil”)
- Make an inference about what Armado finds reassuring about the tale of Samson
- Apply knowledge of situational irony by explaining what is unexpected about Cupid’s powers
- Articulate the significance of of Armado’s closing soliloquy
- Write with clarity, logic, and precision
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