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English Language Arts and Literacy | Grade : 7
Strand - Reading Informational Text
Cluster - Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
[RI.7.9] - Analyze how two or more authors writing about the same topic shape their presentations of key information by emphasizing different evidence or advancing different interpretations of facts.
- Analysis (Analyze)
In general, a careful examination of the parts of a whole and their relationships to one another; in language arts, a study of how words, sentences, paragraphs, stanzas, or sections of a text affect its meaning. - Evidence
Empirical data or other sources of support (e.g., mathematical proofs) for a claim; may be selected, presented, and evaluated differently by different audiences and in different subject areas according to the norms of disciplinary literacy. See Text Types and Purposes for Argument. - Interpret
Assign a certain meaning to a text or communication; for example, Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn has been interpreted as being a racist novel by some critics and antiracist by others. - Massachusetts Anchor Standards for Reading
[RI.6.9] -
Compare and contrast one author’s presentation of events with that of another (e.g., a memoir written by and a biography on the same person).
[RI.8.9] -
Analyze a case in which two or more texts provide conflicting information on the same topic and identify where the texts disagree on matters of fact or interpretation.