Common Core Standards
Grade 7
Reading 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.
This standard continues the exploration of different author perspectives started in sixth grade. Maybe one author hates what they're writing about, while the other ones loves it. However, if they're both using the same information, how do they show it? The author who loves what he or she is writing about might focus on the positives, while the author who hates it might downplay those positives. A lot of authors' presentations of a subject will come down to word choice, too—those connotative meanings of words are important outside of fiction!
Aligned Resources
- Social Studies Online: Digital Literacy Connections to Civics and History: To Speak or Not to Speak… Freely
- Teaching American Born Chinese: Are You There, God? It's Me, Monkey King
- Teaching Maniac Magee: City Divided
- Teaching Farewell to Manzanar: Every Picture Tells a Story
- Teaching Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry: Integration In Our Nation
- Teaching The View from Saturday: Create Your Own Knowledge Bowl
- Teaching The Voyage of the Dawn Treader: Famous Islands
- Teaching The Voyage of the Dawn Treader: Only in Dreams
- Teaching When You Reach Me: Mysteries of Science
- Teaching Dragonwings: The Real Windrider
- Teaching A Tree Grows in Brooklyn: Nickeled & Dimed
- Teaching A Wrinkle in Time: Right Brain Versus Left Brain
- Teaching Farewell to Manzanar: Do You See What I See?
- Teaching The View from Saturday: Getting To Know a Turtle (Almost)
- Using and Citing Online Sources: Chicken or the Egg: Primary and Secondary Sources
- Teaching American Born Chinese: Individual Identity
- Teaching Black Beauty: Why a Story?
- Teaching Monster: Prison: Fact or Fiction
- Teaching Johnny Tremain: Looting
- Teaching A Wrinkle in Time: The Quotable Mrs. Who
- Teaching The Voyage of the Dawn Treader: Sailing Around the World