Academic standards
- CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.9-10.5
- Analyze in detail how an author's ideas or claims are developed and refined by particular sentences, paragraphs, or larger portions of a text...
- CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.9-10.6
- 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.
- CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.9-10.7
- Analyze various accounts of a subject told in different mediums (e.g., a person's life story in both print and multimedia), determining which...
- CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.9-10.2
- Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze in detail its development over the course of the text, including how it emerges and is...
- CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.9-10.7
- Analyze the representation of a subject or a key scene in two different artistic mediums, including what is emphasized or absent in each treatment...
- CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.9-10.9
- Analyze how an author draws on and transforms source material in a specific work (e.g., how Shakespeare treats a theme or topic from Ovid or the...
- CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.9-10.3
- Evaluate a speaker's point of view, reasoning, and use of evidence and rhetoric, identifying any fallacious reasoning or exaggerated or...
- CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.9-10.6
- Use technology, including the Internet, to produce, publish, and update individual or shared writing products, taking advantage of technology's...
- CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.9-10.7
- Conduct short as well as more sustained research projects to answer a question (including a self-generated question) or solve a problem; narrow or...
- CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.9-10.8
- Gather relevant information from multiple authoritative print and digital sources, using advanced searches effectively; assess the usefulness of...
- CLE 3002.4.1
- Define and narrow a problem or research topic.
- CLE 3002.4.2
- Gather relevant information from a variety of print and electronic sources, as well as from direct observation, interviews, and surveys.
- CLE 3002.4.3
- Make distinctions about the credibility, reliability, consistency, strengths, and limitations of resources, including information gathered from websites.
- CLE 3002.4.4
- Write an extended research paper, using primary and secondary sources and technology and graphics, as appropriate.
- CLE 3002.4.5
- Use a standard format to arrange text, to cite sources correctly, and to document quotations, paraphrases, and other information.
- SPI 3002.4.4
- Evaluate the validity of Web pages as sources of information.
- SPI 3002.4.6
- Identify information that must be cited or attributed within a writing sample.
- SPI 3002.7.7
- Consider the treatment of a particular subject or event in two or more media (e.g., newspaper and visual art, narrative and poem, diary and magazine article).
- SPI 3002.8.16
- Analyze how form relates to meaning (e.g., compare a poem and a newspaper on the same theme or topic).
- SPI 3002.8.3
- Identify and analyze an authors point of view (i.e., first person, third-person objective, third-person limited, third-person omniscient).
- TSS.ELA.11-12.RI.IKI.7
- Evaluate the topic or subject in multiple diverse formats and media.
- TSS.ELA.11-12.RI.IKI.8
- Evaluate how an author incorporates evidence and reasoning to support the argument and specific claims in a text.
- TSS.ELA.11-12.RI.IKI.9
- Analyze and evaluate a variety of thematically-related texts of historical and literary significance for their topics, facts, purposes, and rhetorical...
- TSS.ELA.11-12.W.RBPK.7
- Conduct and write short as well as more sustained research projects to answer a question (including a self-generated question) or solve a problem by...
- TSS.ELA.11-12.W.RBPK.8
- Use advanced searches effectively, assessing the credibility and effectiveness of sources in answering a research question; integrate relevant and...
- TSS.ELA.9-10.RI.CS.6
- Determine an author's point of view or purpose and analyze how an author uses rhetoric to advance that point of view or purpose.
- TSS.ELA.9-10.RI.IKI.7
- Evaluate the topic or subject in two diverse formats or media.
- TSS.ELA.9-10.RI.IKI.8
- Evaluate how reasoning and evidence affects the argument and specific claims in a text.
- TSS.ELA.9-10.RI.IKI.9
- Analyze a variety of thematically related texts of historical and literary significance for the way they address related topics, facts, and concepts.
- TSS.ELA.9-10.RI.KID.2
- Determine a central idea of a text and analyze its development; provide an objective or critical summary.
- TSS.ELA.9-10.RL.CS.6
- Analyze how point of view and/or author purpose shapes the content and style of diverse texts.
- TSS.ELA.9-10.RL.IKI.7
- Evaluate the topic, subject, and/or theme in two diverse formats or media.
- TSS.ELA.9-10.RL.IKI.9
- Analyze a variety of related literary texts and evaluate how an author draws on, alludes to, or transforms source material to provide a deeper and more...
- TSS.ELA.9-10.RL.KID.2
- Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze its development; provide an objective or critical summary.
- TSS.ELA.9-10.SL.CC.3
- Evaluate a speaker's point of view, reasoning, and use of evidence and rhetoric; identify any fallacious reasoning and/or exaggerated or distorted...
- TSS.ELA.9-10.W.PDW.6
- Use technology, including the Internet, to produce, publish, and update individual or shared writing products, taking advantage of technology's...
- TSS.ELA.9-10.W.RBPK.7
- Conduct and write short as well as more sustained research projects to answer a question (including a self-generated question) or solve a problem by...
- TSS.ELA.9-10.W.RBPK.8
- Use multiple search terms to generate a variety of print and digital sources; integrate information into the text selectively to maintain the flow of...
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Essential and guiding questions:
What differences in the primary sources reflect the clash of cultures? How did the initial encounters between European explorers and settlers on the one hand and Native American tribes on the other influence future relations between the two groups?
