2024 8th Grade Extended Constructed Response Samples

What score did the student receive for the extended constructed response?

In this story, Carol is reading a book. This book is not just a normal one, this one includes changes being made throughout the story. She just brushes it off until she has a dream about Mr. Linden and herself talking, eventually this wakes her up and started thinking about the book on the window seat, and how she made herself believe it was her thoughts making her think about the ending of the story changing. Eventually she found out the story was infact changing, due to her actions on sneaking up on the books and avoiding them.

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CCSS.RI.1.1

CCSS.RI.2.1

CCSS.RI.3.1

CCSS.RL.2.1

CCSS.RL.3.1

What score did the student receive for the extended constructed response?

Curiosity is a driving force of life. Without it, where would we be? What would life be like had not countless inquisitive and adventurous minds not put themselves out there for all the world to see? Well, if we can agree on anything, it's that we certainly wouldn't be living the now we all know and love. And that's what's so peculiar about curiousity—it's frightening, really. But it is what motivated and influenced Carol in her pursuit of the truth; in her conquest of knowledge shrouded in mystery. Without curiosity, there would be no plot. In "Mr. Linden's Library" by Walter Dean Myers, Carol is a young girl and voracious reader. In the excerpt, it seems that she has been to Mr. Linden's library before, as demonstrated by the first few paragraphs of our sampled story. In the excerpt, Carol comes across a strange book. In fact, a book whose "ending of the story had changed." She would fret about it even into her sleep, as stated here, "...Carol's sleep was disturbed...dreamt of sitting in Mr. Linden's library...Then she awoke and lay...thinking of the book..." If anything, this shows that Carol's interest has been piqued. Now, some time has passed and the seasons are changing. Carol goes back the library. In paragraph 7, there is a line that states, "...Carol thought about asking him [Mr. Linden] directly about the book." Obviously enough, she is still hooked onto that book and its seemingly magical contents, which is why she has returned. After some dawdling, Carol gets back to the book. She rereads the section that she has suspected to change, and, "She was right; the story had changed. It was changing from day to day!" Carol's suspicions were confirmed. However, this only left her with more questions. You can leave that one to a curious child's nature. In conclusion, curiosity was once again the driving force of life in this enchanting little tale. Carol's curiosity paved the way for the story to progress, each event being tied to one another in order to discover the reality that surrounded the book on the window seat. Isn't curiosity such a wonderful thing? Suppose we can send our regards to Pandora for the lesson she taught. 

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CCSS.RI.1.1

CCSS.RI.2.1

CCSS.RI.3.1

CCSS.RL.2.1

CCSS.RL.3.1

What score did the student receive for the extended constructed response?

Carol's curiosity was a major part of his character, but how did carlos' curious traits affect this reading? Carlos impacted the story in many different ways, but his curious traits played a major role in this reading. Carol's curiosity influenced the excerpt in many ways, for example, when carlos was sleeping soundly in bed, he started to experience many evevnts altering which sparked him to think. He start remembering the altering of how she interpreted the story in Mr. Linden's library. This caused carlos to start investagating what was going on and why can't he be consistent in how she interprets his story. As stated in paragraph 4, whilst Carol is sleeping her imagination is altering her mind and how she remembers things. Towards the next few paragraphs she starts to investigate to understand what was going on. But that's not the only way Carols imagination altered the text, Carol also altered the story when she arrived at the library all alone and quickly went to go check if the book was still there, she quickly went to the windowcell to see if the book there, after she saw the book she flipped through the other books and saw one, as she started reading she altered that book with her imagination too, in paragraph 9-12, it shows how Carols imagination plays a big role in the story as it alters the many stories in it. Carol has a big imagination which alters the story in many big ways, her imagination creates stuff, alters stuff and makes everything more enjoyable, in conclusion, Carols imagination gives the reader alot more to read and makes the story way more entertaining.

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CCSS.RI.2.1

CCSS.RI.3.1

CCSS.RL.1.1

CCSS.RL.2.1

CCSS.RL.3.1

What score did the student receive for the extended constructed response?

Basied on the informaton in Mr. Lindens Library carol's curisoty leds her to many thing like in phargaph 4 it says "she awoke and lay in the darkness of he rooom thinking of the book on the window" it later says that she must have "allowed her imagination or some roandom thought to chang the way she remembered the page" 

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CCSS.RI.2.1

CCSS.RI.3.1

CCSS.RL.1.1

CCSS.RL.2.1

CCSS.RL.3.1

What score did the student receive for the extended constructed response?

Carol's imagination and beliefs definitely takes a big part in the story. Her dreams set the tone of the story that the excerpt will be very "fantasy dream' esque. Her curiousity of Mr. Linden's library mixed with her imagination sets the mood for a story that leaves you with questions. Carol was curious about the dream she had because it was of her in Mr. Linden's library. She enjoys the mystery of her dream so that's why she didn't mention it to her mother. When Carol was at Mr. Linden's house, she thought about asking Mr. Linden about the book that was in her dream. Carol decided she wanted to feed into her curiousity by looking at the book for herself. When she got into Mr. Linden's library, the book was in the exact same spot as it was in her dream. The book intrigued her because the story kept changing day to day. She held on to book and brought it to Mr. Linden. Carol's curiousity and imaginination make up most of the story, because Carol is focused on what she saw in her dream. I can assume Carol is a young child because younger kids are more curious and have more interest in the world around them. Carol's inquisitveness sets the tone of the story and influences events because she takes finding out answer beyond herself. 

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CCSS.RI.1.4

CCSS.RI.2.1

CCSS.RI.3.1

CCSS.RL.2.1

CCSS.RL.3.1

What score did the student receive for the extended constructed response?

Carols curiousity influences the events in this excerpt because her curiosity and awareness is the reason she even noticed the "changing of the story",it's the cause of her going back to the library,and it even possibly could've been the cause of her dream because of how worried she was.And her having the troubled dreams about the book on the window seat and sitting in Mr.Lindens library caused her to believe that her imagination or a thought she had in her head changed the way she remembered the page,And it all start adding up and making sense in her head.And all that was influenced by her curiosity in the excerpt.

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CCSS.RI.2.1

CCSS.RI.3.1

CCSS.RL.1.1

CCSS.RL.2.1

CCSS.RL.3.1