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English Language Arts and Literacy | Grade : 11-12
Strand - Reading Informational Text
Cluster - Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
[RI.11-12.9] - Analyze pre-20th century documents of historical and literary significance (e.g., the Magna Carta, The Declaration of Independence, the Declaration of the Rights of Man, the Preamble to the Constitution, the Bill of Rights) for their themes, purposes, and rhetorical features.
- Massachusetts Anchor Standards for Reading
- Purpose
See Text Types and Purposes. - Rhetoric
The study and practice of effective communication; often associated with language or images intended to persuade or otherwise influence an audience. There are three classical rhetorical strategies: - Theme
Central message or abstract concept made concrete through representation in a literary text. Like a thesis, a theme implies a subject and predicate of some kind: for instance, not just vice as a standalone word, but a proposition such as Vice seems more interesting than virtue but turns out to be destructive. Sometimes a theme is directly stated in a work, and sometimes it is revealed indirectly. A single work may have more than one theme. See Main idea, Moral.
[RI.9-10.9] -
Analyze seminal documents of historical and literary significance (e.g., Washington’s Farewell Address, Lincoln's Second Inaugural and the Gettysburg Addresses, Roosevelt’s Four Freedoms speech, King’s "Letter From Birmingham Jail"), including how they address related themes and concepts.