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Reading: Informational Text Standard 5

Analyze in detail how an author’s ideas or claims are developed and refined by particular sentences, paragraphs, or larger portions of a text (e.g., a section or chapter).
  • Grade Band 9-10 Sample Performance Assessment
    This sample English Language Arts performance assessment for Grade Band 9-10 covers three texts: 1) Lincoln, Abraham. "Gettysburg Address" 2) Monk, Linda R. Words We Live By: Your Annotated Guide to the Constitution and 3) Hand, Learned. "I Am an American Day Address".
  • Holocaust and Resistance
    In this lesson from EDSITEment, students reflect on the Holocaust from the point of view of those who actively resisted Nazi persecution. Students will learn how the Holocaust happened and understand the devastation suffered by its victims; examine the evidence of resistance to the Holocaust that has been preserved in official documents and by oral tradition; reflect on the responsibilities of individuals when confronted with social policies that violate human rights; consider the significance of the Holocaust in society today.
  • Introducing the Essay: Twain, Douglass, and American Non-Fiction
    This series of lessons explores the following questions: What are the different kinds of essays and how are they based in rhetorical tradition? What are some effective strategies in persuasive writing?
  • Perspective on the Slave Narrative
    This lesson plan introduces students to one of the most widely-read genres of 19th-century American literature and an important influence within the African American literary tradition even today. The lesson focuses on the Narrative of William W. Brown, An American Slave (1847), which, along with the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (1845), set the pattern for this genre and its combination of varied literary traditions and devices. To help students recognize the complex nature of the slave narrative, the lesson explores Brown's work from a variety of perspectives.
  • 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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