Assess How Point of View Or Purpose Shapes the Content and Style of a Text
CCR Anchor Standards:
- Interpret words and phrases as they are used in a text, including determining technical, connotative, and figurative meanings, and analyze how specific word choices shape meaning or tone.
- Analyze the structure of texts, including how specific sentences, paragraphs, and larger portions of the text (e.g., a section, chapter, scene, or stanza) relate to each other and the whole.
- Assess how point of view or purpose shapes the content and style of a text.
Standards:
RI4 Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative, connotative, and technical meanings; analyze the cumulative impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone (e.g., how the language of a court opinion differs from that of a newspaper).
RI5. Analyze in detail how an author’s ideas or claims are developed and refined by particular sentences, paragraphs, or larger portions of a text (e.g., a section or chapter).
RI6. Determine an author’s point of view or purpose in a text and analyze how an author uses rhetoric to advance that point of view or purpose.
Score 4.0 / I can theorize how the addition, absence, or replacement of specific phrases, rhetorical devices, and graphical information/data would alter meaning related to the same topic, purpose, or point of view.
Score 3.0 / I can analyze the cumulative impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone within a text, including words that signal a particular audience, purpose, and context the author addresses
(e.g., how the language of a court opinion differs from that of a newspaper).
I can analyze how an author uses rhetoric to advance his or her point of view or purpose.
I can analyze how these words and rhetorical choices support and refine the author’s claim(s).
Score 2.0 / I can categorize key words and phrases based on their meaning and tone, including how these words suggest/imply a main idea or claim, the context, audience, author’s purpose and point of view.
I can reflect on the similarities and differences between the effect these word choices have.
I know and can provide examples of the following terms: rhetoric, rhetorical device, data
Score 1.0 / I can identify the following:
• author’s purpose, point of view, audience, and context or situation of the text.
• words and data that express a dominant idea in portions of a text.
• words that indicate a pattern or structure to the author’s thinking.
Score 0.0 / I am not yet able to:
- identify the criteria in score 1.0.