CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RH.9-10.6
The Standard
Compare the point of view of two or more authors for how they treat the same or similar topics, including which details they include and emphasize in their respective accounts.
Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts · Reading Standards for Literacy in History/Social Studies 6—12
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students read two or more accounts of the same topic and identify each author’s viewpoint. They compare which details each author includes, leaves out, or stresses, then explain how those choices shape the account.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Students cite details from both accounts and explain how each author’s choices shape the reader’s understanding. They compare viewpoints rather than simply summarizing each text.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may confuse an author’s point of view with first-person or third-person narration. They may list different details without explaining why each author selected or emphasized them. They may also assume differing accounts mean one author is lying.
How to Assess It
- Exit ticket: From today’s two accounts, identify one detail each author emphasizes and explain what that choice reveals about each author’s viewpoint.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs two accounts and colored highlighters to mark shared details, unique details, and strongly emphasized details.
Ask students to write: How does each author want readers to understand the event, and which details reveal that goal?
Play Detail Detective, where teams match anonymous details to the author most likely to include them and defend each match.
Compare two news reports about the same local event, then discuss how headlines, sources, and selected facts shape each account.
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- CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.7.6
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- CCSS.ELA-Literacy.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).
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