Appendix on Implementing District Standards
In my unit, I will focus on two basic content standards that are centered on investigating and interpreting primary sources, as well as identifying and analyzing use of rhetoric to achieve an author’s purpose. Students will learn about and apply a protocol for analyzing and interpreting primary sources to address CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RH.9-10.1, which states that students should be able to “Cite specific textual evidence to support analysis of primary and secondary sources, attending to such features as the date and origin of the information.” Moreover, in analyzing the author's purpose and selected rhetoric for each primary source, students will “Determine an author's point of view or purpose in a text and analyze how an author uses rhetoric to advance that point of view or purpose.” as stated by CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.9-10.6. Finally, students will compare the ways in which authors with different perspectives approach a similar topic. This type of analysis will address CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RH.9-10.6 which states that students should be able to “Compare the point of view of two or more authors for how they treat the same or similar topics, including which details they include and emphasize in their respective accounts.”
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