2015 Released Items: Grade 7 Performance

2015 Released Items: Grade 7 Performance-Based Assessment Literary Analysis Task
The Literary Analysis Task requires students to read two literary texts that are purposely paired. Students read the texts,
answer questions for each text and for the texts as a pair, and then write an analytic essay.
The 2015 blueprint for PARCC’s grade 7 Literary Analysis Task includes six Evidence-Based Selected
Response/Technology-Enhanced Constructed Response items as well as one Prose Constructed Response prompt. A
complete Literary Analysis Task from an online summative assessment form is included in this document, as well
additional items from a paper form and/or online form.
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Answer key and standards alignment
PDFs of each item with the associated text(s)
Additional related materials not included in this document:
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Sample scored student responses with annotations and practice papers
PARCC Scoring Rubric for Prose Constructed Response Items
Guide to English Language Arts/Literacy Released Items: Understanding Scoring
PARCC English Language Arts/Literacy Assessment: General Scoring Rules for the 2015 Summative Assessment
Note: Item 4701_A represents an item type that is no longer being developed for the PARCC ELA/literacy summative
assessment.
PARCC PBA Release Items Answer and Alignment Document
ELA/Literacy: Grade 7
Task: Literary Analysis (LAT)
Passage(s): Excerpt from Georges and the Jewels; Excerpt from Black Beauty, the Autobiography of a
Horse
Item Code Answer(s)
Standards/Evidence
Statement Alignment
4118_A
Item Type: EBSR
Part A: C
Part B: C
RL 7.1.1
RL 7.4.1
L 7.4.1
4120_A
Item Type: EBSR
Part A: C
Part B: D
RL 7.1.1
RL 7.3.1
4273_A
Item Type: EBSR
Part A: B
Part B: E, F
RL 7.1.2
RL 7.6.1
4122_A
Item Type: EBSR
Part A: B
Part B: B
RL 7.1.1
RL 7.4.1
4125_A
Item Type: EBSR
Part A: B
Part B: D, F
RL 7.1.2
RL 7.2.2
4123
Item Type: TECR
RL 7.1.2
RL 7.2.3
4127
Item Type: PCR
Refer to Grade 6-11 Scoring Rubric
RL 7.1.2
RL 7.6.1
W 7.2
W 7.4-10
Item Code Answer(s)
4701_A
Item Type: EBSR (paper form – additional item)
Part A: B
Part B: D
Standards/Evidence
Statement Alignment
RL 7.1.2
RL 7.2.3
Item: 4118_A
Associated Text: “The Georges and the Jewels”
Item: 4120_A
Associated Text: “The Georges and the Jewels”
Item: 4273_A
Associated Text: “The Georges and the Jewels”
Item: 4122_A
Associated Text: “Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Horse”
Item: 4125_A
Associated Text: “Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Horse”
Item: 4123
Associated Text: “Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Horse”
Item: 4127
Associated Texts: “The Georges and the Jewels” and “Black Beauty: The Autobiography
of a Horse”
Item: 4701_A
Associated Text: “Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Horse”