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Which student response best answers the text-dependent question: How does Rachel change as the plot unfolds? Give evidence from the text to support your answer.

A. Rachel doesn't change in this story. She hates her birthday, hates her classmates, and hates her teacher. She is a very sad and depressed person. She cries a lot.

B. As the plot unfolds, Rachel's emotional response to turning eleven changes. At the beginning of the story she is uncertain and scared about her birthday. After Mrs. Price, her teacher, insists she put the sweater on, Rachel descends into extreme sadness. She cries as her face becomes hot, spit comes out of her mouth, and she makes animal noises. She wishes she was invisible. As the story progresses, Rachel's uncertainty changes to extreme shame and sadness.

C. Rachel doesn't like Phyllis and Sylvia and how they act in school because she thinks they are stupid. Then she is sad about how Mrs. Price acts toward her. That is how she feels about what is happening to her.

D. The plot isn't really moving forward. Nothing is really happening. All Rachel does is cry about her birthday. She doesn't like her birthday, her classmates or her teacher.

Answer: Incorrect. While this student writer understands the general feelings that Rachel has toward her life, there is a lack of explicit text support. Additionally, this student doesn't anchor the response in how Rachel changes, which requires some inferencing and deeper levels of analysis in order to answer this text-dependent question. Try again. Correct. This response demonstrates that the student writer has been able to discern the change that Rachel makes as the plot unfolds. This response gives explicit text-based examples from the story to show how the character has changed. The student writer concludes by re-emphasizing what has changed that is significant to the plot of the story. Incorrect. This response is off-track because it does not stay focused on how the character changes as the plot unfolds and the expectations of the standards. Try again. Incorrect. This response does not answer the question asked. The response should begin by focusing on how the author reveals Rachel's reactions to her classmates and use explicit text support. However, this response has a lot of personal opinion about the plot and Rachel's behavior. Try again.