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Grade 12 Reading Worksheet: Shooting an Elephant by George Orwell

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  • 2 pages total

  • 3 differentiated practice exercises

  • 1 answer key page

  • 2 pages total

  • 3 differentiated practice exercises

  • 1 answer key page

“Power corrupts, but it also traps the one who holds it.”
— Unknown

This Grade 12 reading worksheet focuses on George Orwell’s Shooting an Elephant and develops advanced analytical reading skills. Students examine central ideas, author’s purpose, tone, symbolism, and rhetoric in a literary nonfiction text. The worksheet includes three differentiated practice sections—Try This, Challenge Yourself, and Push Your Limits—to support progressive skill development, and concludes with a complete answer key.

Additional Info:

  1. Difficulty Level: Advanced (CEFR C1)

  2. Skill Focus: Analyzing author’s purpose, tone, and the development of central ideas in literary nonfiction

  3. Standards / Strand:

  • CCSS-RI.11-12.2: Determine two or more central ideas of a text and analyze their development.

  • CCSS-RI.11-12.6: Determine an author’s point of view or purpose and analyze how rhetoric is used to advance that point of view.

  • CEFR C1 Reading: Can understand a wide range of demanding, longer texts and recognize implicit meaning.

  • Cambridge English Curriculum: Reading – Understanding writer’s attitude, purpose, and use of language in extended literary nonfiction.

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