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End-of-Unit Assessment
“My Last Duchess” By Robert Browning, “The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin, A Room of One’s
Own by Virginia Woolf
Text-Based Response
Evidence-Based Claim
Your Task: Based on your close reading of “My Last Duchess,” “The Story of an Hour,” and A Room
of One’s Own, write a well-developed, multi-paragraph response to the following prompt:
Select a central idea common to all three texts. How do the authors develop this idea over the
course of each text? How do the texts work together to build your understanding of this central
idea?
Your response will be assessed using the Text Analysis Rubric.
Guidelines
Be sure to:
 Closely read the prompt
 Organize your ideas and evidence
 Develop a claim that responds directly to all parts of the prompt
 Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support your analysis
 Follow the conventions of standard written English
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In other words…
 Identify a central idea common to all three texts.
 Explain how the central idea develops over the course of each text.
 Introduce a claim about how the three texts work together to build new understanding(s)
about the central idea.
 Support the claim with multiple textual examples from each text.
 Demonstrate how the evidence from all three texts builds upon each other to build new
understanding(s) about the central idea.
 Conclude with either a fresh insight or a concise synthesis of the ideas presented in the
response.
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Possible outline:
I. Introduction
a. Give brief description of old attitudes regarding women’s rights
b. Identify the central idea common in all three texts. (Graphic Organizer #1, A.)
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“My Last Duchess” (poem) by Robert Browning
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“The Story of an Hour” (short story) by Kate Chopin
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A Room of One’s Own (extended essay) by Virginia Woolf
c. State the CLAIM (based on the central idea) that can be supported with all three
texts. (Graphic Organizer #1, B.)
II. “My Last Duchess”
a. One sentence summary of text and how the central idea is developed
b. Give examples from this text that support the claim
c. HOW do these examples support the claim
III. “The Story of an Hour”
a. One sentence summary of text and how the central idea is developed
b. Give examples from this text that support the claim
c. HOW do these examples support the claim
IV. A Room of One’s Own
a. One sentence summary of text and how the central idea is developed
b. Give examples from this text that support the claim
c. HOW do these examples support the claim
V. Conclusion
a. Restate the central idea
b. Identify something learned from studying these three texts