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PARCC ELA/Literacy Practice Tests  

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Grade 7

• Research Task
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Grade 8

• Literary Analysis Task
• Read passages from two novels:  Confetti Girl and  Tortilla Sun.
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• Research Task 

• Research an experiment involving elephants. Read three articles:

• "Elephants Can Help Lend a Helping Trunk"

• Video from Discovery News, "Elephants Show Cooperation"

• "Elephants Know When They Need a Helping Trunk in a Cooperative Task"

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• Narrative Writing Task
• Read passage from The Seven Keys of Balabad. 
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Grade 9

• Research Task
• Research development and one-time use of atomic bomb. 
• Read three passages:
• Speech by Robert Oppenheimer
• Letter from group of eminent scientists to President Truman
• "The Decision to Drop the Bomb" by ushistory.org
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• Narrative Writing Task

• Read passage from novel Bleak House. 

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Grade 10

• Literary Analysis Task
•  Read 2 short stories: "The Red Crane" and "The Firefly Hunt"
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• Research Task
• Read three passages:
• Supreme Court majority opinion on Tinker v. Des Moines Community School District
• Dissenting opinion
• Audio clip discussing context and impact of case
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• Narrative Writing Task
• Read excerpt from novel, Three Men on the Bummel, by English author Jerome K. Jerome (1859-1927). 

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Grade 11 

• Literary Analysis Task
• Passage from 1928 novel Quicksand
• Passage from 1912 Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
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• Research Task

• Read three passages:

• "Declaration of Independence"

• Speech delivered by Patrick Henry

• Video that describes a recent finding about the "Declaration of Independence"

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