2015 Released Items: Grade 11 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 11 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 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:
Items J1015_A and J1016_A represent an item type no longer being developed for the PARCC
ELA/literacy summative assessment.
PARCC Release Items Answer and Alignment Document
ELA/Literacy Grade 11
Literary Analysis Task
Task: Literary Analysis (LAT)
Text(s): from Sister Carrie; from "The Grasshopper"
Item Code Answer(s)
Standards/Evidence
Statement Alignment
8036_A
Item Type: EBSR
Part A: C
Part B: D
RL 11.1.2
RL 11.3.1
RL 11.4.1
L 11.4.1
8038_AR
Item Type: TECR
Part A:
RL 11.1.2
RL 11.2.1
RL 11.3.1
Part B:
8032_A
Item Type: EBSR
Part A: B
Part B: C
RL 11.1.2
RL 11.4.1
L 11.4.1
8035
Item Type: TECR
RL 11.1.2
RL 11.2.3
RL 11.3.1
8033_A
Item Type: EBSR
Part A: B
Part B: B
RL 11.1.2
RL 11.3.1
RL 11.5.1
Item Code Answer(s)
Standards/Evidence
Statement Alignment
J1015_A
Item Type: EBSR
Part A: B, F
Part B: B, C, D
RL 11.1.2
RL 11.3.1
8040
Item Type: PCR
Refer to Grade 6-11 Scoring Rubric
RL 11.1.2
RL 11.3.1
W 11.2
W 11.4-W 11.10
J1016_A
Item Type: EBSR (paper form – additional item)
Part A: A, D
Part B: B, E
RL 11.1.2
RL 11.2.1
RL 11.3.1
8688_A
Item Type: EBSR (paper form – additional item)
Part A: C
Part B: D, F
RL 11.1.2
RL 11.3.1
J1014_A
Item Type: EBSR (paper form – additional item)
Part A: B
Part B: B, C
RL 11.1.2
RL 11.3.1
Item: 8036_A
Associated Text: Sister Carrie
Item: 8038_AR
Associated Text: Sister Carrie
Item: 8038_AR
Associated Text: Sister Carrie
Item: 8032_A
Associated Text: “The Grasshopper”
Item: 8035
Associated Text: “The Grasshopper”
Item: 8033_A
Associated Text: “The Grasshopper”
Item: J1015_A
Associated Text: “The Grasshopper”
Item: 8040
Associated Texts: Sister Carrie and “The Grasshopper”
Item: J1016_A
Associated Text: Sister Carrie
Item: 8688_A
Associated Text: “The Grasshopper”
Item: J1014_A
Associated Text: “The Grasshopper”