Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text, including its relationship to the characters, setting, and plot; provide an objective summary of the text.

The first part of this standard is all about being able to intelligently talk about a theme of the book using quotes to back up that talk, while the second part of this standard is pretty straight-forward: students should be able to summarize a text without putting their own opinions in that summary. Together, they come together to basically mean "talk about a theme of a book using only examples from the book and analysis of those examples, not from your own opinions on whether that theme is right or wrong."