Unpacking the Prompt

In Confetti Girl & Tortilla Sun, the narrators have points of view different from those of their parents. Write an essay analyzing how these differences in points of view create tension in both stories. Remember to use details from both texts to support your ideas.

Identify the task you will complete

• Narrative

• Literary Analysis

• Research Simulation

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CCSS.RI.6.7

CCSS.RI.7.7

CCSS.RI.8.7

CCSS.RL.6.9

CCSS.RL.8.5

In Confetti Girl & Tortilla Sun, the narrators have points of view different from those of their parents. Write an essay analyzing how these differences in points of view create tension in both stories. Remember to use details from both texts to support your ideas.

What key word or words should be circled that tell you what you are to do?

• Support

• Points of view

• Create

• Analyzing

• Write

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CCSS.RI.7.7

CCSS.RI.8.7

CCSS.RL.7.7

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.8.7

In Confetti Girl & Tortilla Sun, the narrators have points of view different from those of their parents. Write an essay analyzing how these differences in points of view create tension in both stories. Remember to use details from both texts to support your ideas.

What is the writing piece going to be about?

• Supporting your ideas

• Confetti Girl & Tortilla Sun

• Narrators and their different points of view

• How the point of view in both stories are similar

• How in both stories the varying points of view created tension

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.7

CCSS.RI.8.7

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.8.7

CCSS.RL.9-10.7

In Confetti Girl & Tortilla Sun, the narrators have points of view different from those of their parents. Write an essay analyzing how these differences in points of view create tension in both stories. Remember to use details from both texts to support your ideas.

Paraphrase the task, what are you expected to produce?

• Write an essay analyzing how the different points of view created tension in both stories

• Write a story that has tension created due to the different points of view

• Write an essay that explains why you disagree with how tension was created

• Write s story continuing Confetti Girl & Tortilla Sun

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.7

CCSS.RI.8.7

CCSS.RL.7.7

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.8.7

Write a continuation of the story of Bahauddin Shah from the story The Seven Keys of Balabad using details from the passage. Describe what you think might happen after Bahauddin Shah climbs out of the Salt Caverns. What obstacles might he face and what actions might he take to over them?

Identify the task you will complete

• Narrative

• Literary Analysis

• Research Simulation

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CCSS.RI.6.10

CCSS.RI.7.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RL.6.10

CCSS.RL.7.10

Write a continuation of the story of Bahauddin Shah from the story The Seven Keys of Balabad using details from the passage. Describe what you think might happen after Bahauddin Shah climbs out of the Salt Caverns. What obstacles might he face and what actions might he take to over them?

What key verb should be circled that tell you what you are to do?

• Continuation

• Details

• Story

• Describe

• Obstacles

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CCSS.RI.2.1

CCSS.RI.3.1

CCSS.RL.1.1

CCSS.RL.2.1

CCSS.RL.3.1

Write a continuation of the story of Bahauddin Shah from the story The Seven Keys of Balabad using details from the passage. Describe what you think might happen after Bahauddin Shah climbs out of the Salt Caverns. What obstacles might he face and what actions might he take to over them?

What is the writing piece going to be about?

• Bahauddin Shah obstacles only they he faced after he climbs out the caverns

• Bahauddin Shah’s actions only that he takes to climb out the cavern

• Bahauddin Shah obstacles he faces when climbing out the cavern and the actions he took to persevere

• The Seven Keys of Balabad and the cavern

• Obstacles

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CCSS.RI.1.1

CCSS.RI.2.1

CCSS.RI.3.1

CCSS.RL.2.1

CCSS.RL.3.1

Write a continuation of the story of Bahauddin Shah from the story The Seven Keys of Balabad using details from the passage. Describe what you think might happen after Bahauddin Shah climbs out of the Salt Caverns. What obstacles might he face and what actions might he take to over them?

Paraphrase the task and what the prompt is expecting you produce.

• An essay that describes how Bahauddin Shah overcoming his obstacles revealed a persistent character

• A story that reveals Bahauddin Shah’s downfall in the cavern and describes his actions

• A story that describes the obstacles Bahauddin Shah encounters while climbing out the cavern and his tenacious attitude

• The Seven Keys of Balabad and the cavern that created the external conflict for Bahauddin Shah

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CCSS.RI.2.1

CCSS.RI.3.1

CCSS.RL.1.1

CCSS.RL.2.1

CCSS.RL.3.1

In “Trial by Combat” and Summer Ball, the characters have conversations

where a lot goes unsaid. Analyze how these unspoken viewpoints influence the tension within the conversations that are held throughout the passages.

Identify the task you will complete

• Narrative

• Literary Analysis

• Research Simulation

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CCSS.RI.7.7

CCSS.RI.8.7

CCSS.RL.6.9

CCSS.RL.7.7

CCSS.RL.8.7

You have read “The Sword of Damocles” and “The Eighteenth Camel.”

Write an essay that describes how a theme in each story is developed.

Use details from both stories to support your response.

Identify the task you will complete

• Narrative

• Literary Analysis

• Research Simulation

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CCSS.RI.6.7

CCSS.RI.7.7

CCSS.RL.6.9

CCSS.RL.7.7

CCSS.RL.8.7