1. Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers Grade 10 - ELA/Literacy Parcconline.org

2. Literary Analysis Task O The Literature Task plays an important role in honing students’ ability to read complex text closely, a skill that research reveals as the most significant factor differentiating college-ready from non-college-ready readers. This task will ask students to carefully consider literature worthy of close study and compose an analytic essay.

3. Narrative Task O The Narrative Task broadens the way in which students may use this type of writing. Narrative writing can be used to convey experiences or events, real or imaginary. In this task, students may be asked to write a story, detail a scientific process, write a historical account of important figures, or to describe an account of events, scenes or objects, for example.

4. Research Simulation Task O The Research Simulation Task is an assessment component worthy of student preparation because it asks students to exercise the career- and college- readiness skills of observation, deduction, and proper use and evaluation of evidence across text types. O In this task, students will analyze an informational topic presented through several articles or multimedia stimuli, the first text being an anchor text that introduces the topic. Students will engage with the texts by answering a series of questions and synthesizing information from multiple sources in order to write two analytic essays.

5. Is the Cure For Death a Gift Or a Curse? Is immortality a good thing? If people could live forever, how would the world change?

6. Task O Immortality is thought to be an unattainable goal. However, do to modern technology and scientific advancements, immortality seems to be a rational goal. But some see immortality as a curse. O Synthesize the following information from at least three of the four sources and incorporate it into a coherent, well-developed essay that defends, challenges, or qualifies the claim that immortality would hinder humanity Or that develops a position on the most important considerations society faces when developing a cure for death. O Make sure that your argument is central; use the sources to illustrate and support your reasoning. Avoid merely summarizing the sources. Indicate clearly which sources you are drawing from, whether through direct quotation, paraphrase, or summary. You may cite the sources as source A, Source B, etc. or by using the descriptions in parentheses. O Source A (Listverse) O Source B (Pedro de Magalhaes) O Source C (Kurzweil) O Source D (Baloo)

7. Source A O http://listverse.com/2012/12/12/10- terrifying-downsides-to-immortality/ http://listverse.com/2012/12/12/10- terrifying-downsides-to-immortality/

8. Source B O http://www.senescence.info/physical_immo rtality_myths.html http://www.senescence.info/physical_immo rtality_myths.html

9. Source C O http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f28LPwR 8BdY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f28LPwR 8BdY

10. Source D O http://www.cartoonstock.com/directory/i/i mmortality.asp http://www.cartoonstock.com/directory/i/i mmortality.asp