English Language Arts Grade 9-10
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Reading: Informational Text Standard 6

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.

• Chaucer's Wife of Bath
  This lesson from EDSITEment introduces students to one of the most admired characterizations in Chaucer's "The Canterbury Tales" the Wife of Bath. Learning Objectives include (1) To analyze Chaucer's portrayal of the Wife of Bath in The Canterbury Tales; (2) To consider how the story told by the Wife of Bath reflects on both her character and on Chaucer's view of marriage and women; (3) To examine literary sources that contributed to this characterization; (4) To explore the historical context that informs this depiction of the rights of women in marriage.
• Evaluating Eyewitness Reports
  This lesson from EDSITEment offers students experience in making historical meaning from eyewitness accounts that present a range of different perspectives. The lesson asks students to evaluate the reliability of this primary source and to draw up a list of questions they would want to ask and issues they would want to explore before making this eyewitness report part of the historical record. To conclude the lesson, students apply their research skills to present-day eyewitness accounts, gathering published examples or conducting interviews, and produce a report on their value and use as historical evidence.
• Self-Assessment Rubric - Close Reading of Informational Text
  This self-assessment reading rubric will help Grade 9 and 10 students assess their reading of informational text.
• Using Informational Texts - Section One
  Text Selections based on Text Complexity (Grade Band 9-10)
• Using Informational Texts - Section Two
  Teacher & Student Editions - Learning Tasks and Cognitive Rigor (Grade Band 9-10)

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