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effective, analyzing how style and content contribute to the power, persuasiveness or beauty of the text.

the author’s or narrator’s point of view.

Integration of Knowledge and Ideas Questions in this category test students’ ability to evaluate authors’ claims, differentiate between facts and opinions, and use evidence to make connections between different texts that are related by topic.

ARG 701 Analyze how one or more sentences in passages offer reasons for or support a claim when the relationship is subtle or complex SYN 401 Draw logical conclusions using information from two literary narratives SYN 501 Draw logical conclusions using information from two informational texts

9-10.RI.8 Delineate and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, assessing whether the reasoning is valid and the evidence is relevant and sufficient; identify false statements and fallacious reasoning. 11-12.RI.8 Delineate and evaluate the reasoning in seminal U.S. texts, including the application of constitutional principles and use of legal reasoning and the premises, purposes, and arguments in works of public advocacy 9-10.RL.9 Analyze how an author draws on and transforms source material in a specific work 11-12.RI.9 Analyze seventeenth-, eighteenth-, and nineteenth century foundational U.S. documents of historical and literary significance for their themes, purposes, and rhetorical features.

• Build student knowledge through reading multiple texts on the same topic and asking students to synthesize information across the texts. • Encourage students to conduct research on topics of personal interest that require reading of complex informational text. • Use selections from literature and literary nonfiction to supplement informational units; for instance, when studying the Holocaust, include an excerpt from a personal memoir from the same time period or a literary text set in the same time period. • Have students analyze details in a complex text in order to verify or contradict a specific point or claim made by an author.

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