RI.9-10.2. Determine a central idea of a text and analyze how it is developed and refined by specific details; provide an objective summary of the text. 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 (e.g., a section or chapter).
Step 1: Check Out the Current Event
For this summative activity, you are going to read the NY Times article titled "What Students are Saying about the Parents' Role in a Recent School Shooting."
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For this summative activity, you will be analyzing the article!
1. Summarize the article 2. Identify the central idea of the text 3. Describe how this central idea is developed through the story's details 4. Use textual support to prove how the author's ideas are developed by sentences/sections of the article
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