South Dakota ELA 9-10.RI.6

9-10.RI.6 is a cluster heading. These are the individual standards under it.

• 9-10.RI.6.a

  Analyze how an author uses rhetoric to advance that point of view or purpose.

• 9-10.RI.6.b

  Evaluate a text for bias and/or fallacies.

01

What Students Need to Do

Students identify what an author wants readers to believe or do. They explain how word choice and appeals to emotion or logic support that goal. They check for one-sided claims and faulty reasoning.

02

What Mastery Looks Like

Given an editorial, a student states the writer’s position and quotes a phrase meant to persuade. They explain its effect and show why a claim is unfair or does not follow from the evidence.

03

Common Misconceptions

Students often confuse a text’s subject with the writer’s position. They may call any opinion biased or treat an insult or sweeping claim as proof.

04

How to Assess It

Exit ticket: Read “Our school must ban phones at lunch; anyone who disagrees wants students to be lonely.” State the writer’s position, explain how one phrase tries to persuade, and name the flawed assumption.

1. 01

   Print a one-paragraph letter arguing for later school start times; pairs highlight its position, emotional words, and claims without evidence in three colors.

2. 02

   Ask: “Which phrase in the later-start letter pushes readers toward agreement, and what does it ask them to feel or assume?”

3. 03

   Use three cards: “90 of 100 students agree,” “Everyone agrees,” and “Only fools disagree”; sort them as evidence, exaggeration, or insult.

4. 04

   Compare two phone plan ads; students underline persuasive words and list one claim each ad fails to support.

• 1.RI.6

  Identify the purpose of and/or point of view in a text.