textual analysis

Uncovering Context

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Curriculum Embedded Task
Colorado Department of Education
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English / Language Arts
9
High (9-12)

Students will create a multi-genre text that expresses their perspective on a theme of inequity they have studied through the unit. Teachers may help guide student choice in the multi-genre pieces that come together to form the whole. Students will have their choice of the various genres: poetry...

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Stanford Center for Assessment, Learning, and Equity (SCALE)
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English / Language Arts
12

This common analytic rubric can be used with English language arts performance tasks to assess textual analysis skills.

Rubrics
Stanford Center for Assessment, Learning, and Equity (SCALE)
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English / Language Arts
10

This common analytic rubric can be used with English language arts performance tasks to assess textual analysis skills.

Stand Alone Task
Envision Schools
Ainate Yiaueki
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English / Language Arts
9
High (9-12)

In this task students are asked to think critically about the text Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck and to write a textual analysis essay.

The prompts for the essay are based on the essential questions: 1) What is my responsibility to other people? and 2) What does it mean to be...

Obesity Paradox

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Inquiry By Design, Stanford Center for Assessment, Learning, and Equity (SCALE)
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English / Language Arts
10
High (9-12)

This performance task requires students to demonstrate their ability to read and analyze a short text as well as the ability to write an essay that requires them to take a position and support it with evidence. Before students complete the reading and writing assessments they will participate in...

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Literacy Design Collaborative (LDC)
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English / Language Arts
7, 8
Middle (6-8)

According to Edgar Allan Poe, stories should be read in one sitting and be packed with details. However, his stories are also full of literary devices used to enhance the story by creating meaning and tone.

After reading a self-selected story written by Poe, the students will write an...

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Inquiry By Design, Stanford Center for Assessment, Learning, and Equity (SCALE)
Dennie Wolf
John McMillan
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English / Language Arts
11, 12
High (9-12)

In this task students will read, analyze, and write about a range of documentary texts from American art and literature that portray the American dream and how people pursue, secure, or are disappointed in their quest for it. Students will then research the life of a person they know ...

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Literacy Design Collaborative (LDC)
Beth Ann Sahd
Lindsay Sigman
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English / Language Arts
American Literature
10, 11
High (9-12)

Authors of both nonfiction and fiction have defined the American Dream and offered varying viewpoints on the extent to which America fulfills the ideas implicit in this dream.

In this module, students will examine multiple texts and then frame an analysis as to whether or not, or to what...