A passage from Edith Wharton's Ethan Frome provides the text for an assessment that asks readers to use evidence from the excerpt to decide if Ethan is a victim of his social and physical environment, or of his own personal choices and temperament.

Concepts

close reading

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Additional Tags

english language arts

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Instructional Ideas

• Use the resource of modeling how to do a close reading of a difficult text or as an assessment

Classroom Considerations

• A reading of the complete story is not necessary for the assessment

Pros

• Four separate passages are included on the worksheet

Cons

• No answer key is provided