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26 Assessment Guide for Educators: RLA Chapter 3: Extended Response accompany these passages in order to provide an opportunity for creative items and increased reader interest. • Informational social studies Passages in this category are excerpts or articles pertaining to the theme of “the Great American Conversation. ” They may include excerpts from documents such as the Bill of Rights and the preamble to the U.S. Constitution (excluding the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution, as the reading levels of those documents exceed the high school- level target of the GED® test) They may also draw from any number of public speeches, U.S. Supreme Court decisions, and other writings that express important concepts about American civics. For instance, a letter from folk icon Woody Guthrie to a librarian at the National Archives about maintaining an archive of folk music lyrics and recordings is an example of an ideal passage. A letter from Teddy Roosevelt on the importance of preserving public land as national space would also be part of “the Great American Conversation. ” These documents could consist of correspondence, articles, speeches, journal entries, or other important primary or secondary documents relating to American civics. • Informational workplace Passages in this category may include workplace letters, resume cover letters, letters to customer service departments, memos, flyers for company-sponsored events, explanations of initiatives, procedural documents, descriptions of activities, or changes in policies. They also include community-related documents like public postings or letters to the editor. Again, these documents reflect real-world situations and are intended to be engaging to a broad range of readers. Passages used for “editing” item sets The subject matter for these passages is drawn primarily from workplace and community documents, like the informational workplace passages described above. They are similar to the types of texts that test-takers might encounter or produce in their daily