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. This
document includes a complete Literary Analysis Task from an online summative assessment form, as well as an
additional item from a paper 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)
Passage(s): Excerpt from The Odyssey; Excerpt from Odysseus
Item Code
Answer(s)
VF737776
VF740821
VF737780
Item Type: EBSR
Part A: C
Part B: B
Item Type: EBSR
Part A: B
Part B: A
Item Type: TECR
Standards/Evidence
Statement Alignment
RL 9.1.1
RL 9.4.1
RL 9.1.2
RL 9.2.1
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
VF737776
VF740821
VF737780
VF741083
VF740849
VF740855
VH018642
VF741090