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10th Grade PARCC Practice

Research Simulation Task

Directions: In this assessment, you will encounter three text excerpts followed a selection of questions regarding each. To answer each question, type the correct response in the provided box.
On the last page, you will be directed to answer an open ended question using evidence from the various text and video sources provided.
Good luck!


Text 1
Fate and Free Will

http://learner365.hubpages.com/hub/Fate-and-Free-will


Much has been talked and said about the role of fate and its comparison with free will in our lives. The debate that usually goes around is that if everything is pre-determined and pre destined then what role a free will has to play. Does a free will have any significance when everything has been decided before for us? But before talking about both free will and fate we need to understand individually what the two terms are exactly about.

The role of fate and free will is a much talked about subject. Some people trust in destiny while some think free will is something that can change the fate.

WHAT IS FATE?

Fate basically is a faith that your destiny is planned before and everything that you come across has some reason behind it. There is some occurrence of events by a supernatural force which are unavoidable and inevitable to escape from. Whatever good or bad that has been decided for you, you have to face it.

WHAT IS FREE WILL?

Free will is basically a choice that has been given to individuals to select their own ways on how to deal with their lives and what paths to choose to reach their certain objectives. Basically the conscious choice that we make without any constraints is termed as free will.

DEBATE OF FREE WILL AND THE ROLE OF FATE:

Through our free will at times, the factors that we choose for making our decisions are unknown and uncontrollable. They sometimes have indirect and most of the times result in unpredictable consequences. People term such occurrence as fate and think that whatever has happened is the result of some unknown force and controlling that force is not possible.

It is often said you cannot choose your tests in life but you can choose how to deal with them and whatever happens in your life is the result of your own deeds. There are many who are of the belief that we are just like instruments in a grand design and free will is not something that exists. A predetermined force is at work and we are just tools relying on how we are moved.

.However the truth is that both free will and fate co-exist with each other. Both are equally there. Fate is in the shape of different paths that have been given to us and their ultimate end is decided before. While the choice of selecting our path is in totally our control. That is the free will. It’s up to us which way should we adopt and which path we run on to. Where we lead with our choice is fate. We can’t totally deny the existence of both fate and the free will.

Consequently you can make most of your fate through free will. It is impossible for a man to change the course of events but which events to choose are in his total control. To escape the core of destiny is impossible. There are challenges in the form of free will while there are rewards for the challenges you face in the form of your fate. Good or bad , it both can be.

Text 1 Questions

Answer the following questions about the passage you read from Fate and Free Will. Be sure to answer in complete sentences and support your responses with examples from the text.

1. Define the term “Fate.”


2. Define the term “Free will.”


3. What is your position on the debate of “Fate vs Free Will?”




Text 2
Read the following quotes form Macbeth and answer the questions below.


Quote

Quote

A

MACBETH [Aside] The Prince of Cumberland (Malcolm) that is a step On which I must fall down, or else o'erleap, For in my way it lies. Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires: The eye wink at the hand; yet let that be, Which the eye fears, when it is done, to see. (1.4.4)

B

MACBETH Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee. I have thee not, and yet I see thee still. Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible To feeling as to sight? or art thou but A dagger of the mind, a false creation, Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain? I see thee yet, in form as palpable As this which now I draw. Thou marshall'st me the way that I was going; And such an instrument I was to use. (2.1.1)

C

MACBETH If't be so, For Banquo's issue have I fil'd my mind, For them the gracious Duncan have I murther'd, Put rancors in the vessel of my peace Only for them, and mine eternal jewel Given to the common enemy of man, To make them kings -the seed of Banquo kings! Rather than so, come, Fate, into the list, And champion me to the utterance! (3.1.8)

D

THIRD APPARITION Be lion-mettled, proud; and take no care Who chafes, who frets, or where conspirers are: Macbeth shall never vanquish'd be until Great Birnam wood to high Dunsinane hill Shall come against him. Descends MACBETH That will never be Who can impress the forest, bid the tree Unfix his earth-bound root? Sweet bodements! good! Rebellion's head, rise never till the wood Of Birnam rise, and our high-placed Macbeth Shall live the lease of nature, pay his breath To time and mortal custom. (4.1.1)

E

MACBETH They have tied me to a stake; I cannot fly, But, bear-like, I must fight the course. What's he that was not born of woman? Such a one am I to fear, or none. (5.7.1)



Text 2 Question

Answer the following questions using ALL of the quotes above.

1. Place a check next to the quotes that illustrate the argument for fate in Macbeth?





A



D



B



E



C

2. Place a check next to the quotes that illustrate the argument for free-will in Macbeth?





A



D



B



E



C

3. Do you think Fate of Free-will led to Macbeth’s trouble? Be sure to incorporate the quotes from above and




Text 3
Directions: Please read the following scene from Invictus and answer the questions that follow.
Invictus

William Ernest Henley


Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance


I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears


Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds, and shall find, me unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate,


How charged with punishments the scroll.
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.

Text 2 Question


  1. Think about the situation in the poem. How does the title connect to the poem, “Invictus?” (Invictus is Latin for “unconquered.”) relate to the rest of the poem?


2. How does the subject of the poem view their life: fate vs. free will?




3. What is the speaker’s tone toward the situation in the poem?




4. Reread stanza C. What do you think the speaker is referencing when he says, “Horror of the shades?”





Essay Question
One common explanation for the actions of characters with complex and conflicting motivations in a great tragedy is oftentimes "fate." After reading the poem, the informational text “Fate and Free-will,” “Invictus,” and the quotes from Macbeth, analyze how the authors address the universal themes of fate and free will. Then explain how the selections address whether one’s life choices are predetermined by fate or if individuals are ultimately responsible for their own destiny. You should cite textual evidence from Macbeth and “Invictus” to justify their analysis.


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