Apply Reading Standards to Literature Practice Test

Text 1 (poem, verse): “The old house sighs / when the boxes leave. / Dust floats like tiny goodbyes / in a sunlit beam.”

Text 2 (realistic fiction excerpt): “Carmen taped a final label on the last box: KITCHEN. Her little brother asked if their new room would have the same window. ‘Not the same,’ Carmen said, ‘but we’ll make it ours.’”

Both texts address change/loss. How does each text’s language style differ most?

Text 1 (contemporary fiction summary) and Text 2 (historical fiction summary) both address family.

Text 1: A girl helps her dad learn to cook after her mom starts working nights, and their small mistakes become a new family routine.

Text 2: A boy in the 1940s helps his grandmother keep family traditions alive after moving to a new town during wartime.

Which best explains how the time period shapes each text’s approach to the theme of family?