2015 Released Items: Grade 9 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 9 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)
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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
PARCC Release Items Answer and Alignment Document
ELA/Literacy Grade 9
Literary Analysis Task
Task: Literary Analysis (LAT)
Text(s): passage from The Odyssey; passage from Odysseus
Item Code Answer(s)
Standards/Evidence
Statement Alignment
VF737776 Item Type: EBSR
Part A: C
Part B: B
RL 9.1.1
RL 9.4.1
VF740821 Item Type: EBSR
Part A: B
Part B: A
RL 9.1.2
RL 9.2.1
VF737780 Item Type: TECR
RL 9.1.1
RL 9.2.3
VF741083 Item Type: EBSR
Part A: A
Part B: A, C
RL 9.1.2
RL 9.4.1
L 9.4.1
VF740849 Item Type: EBSR
Part A: B
Part B: C
RL 9.1.2
RL 9.3.2
VF740855 Item Type: EBSR
Part A: C
Part B: C, D
RL 9.1.2
RL 9.5.1
VH018642 Item Type: PCR
Refer to Grade 6-11 Scoring Rubric
RL 9.1.2
RL 9.9.1
W 9.2
W 9.4—W 9.10
VF741090 Item Type: EBSR (paper form – additional item)
Part A: D
Part B: A
RL 9.1.2
RL 9.3.2
Item: VF737776
Associated Text: “The Odyssey”
Item: VF740821
Associated Text: “The Odyssey”
Item: VF737780
Associated Text: “The Odyssey”
Item: VF741083
Associated Text: “Odysseus”
Item: VF740849
Associated Text: “Odysseus”
Item: VF740855
Associated Text: “Odysseus”
Item: VH018642
Associated Text: “The Odyssey” and “Odysseus”
Item: VF741090
Associated Text: “Odysseus”