ELA21.8.5

English Language Arts (2021) Grade(s): 8

ELA21.8.5
Compare and contrast the perspectives in a variety of fiction, nonfiction, informational, digital, and multimodal texts produced from diverse historical, cultural, and global viewpoints.

Unpacked Content

Knowledge

Students know:

Strategies to identify the perspective of fiction, nonfiction, informational, digital, and multimodal texts.
Strategies to identify the historical, cultural, and global viewpoints of a variety of texts.
Methods to compare and contrast texts.

Skills

Students are able to:

Compare and contrast perspectives in fiction, nonfiction, informational, digital, and multimodal texts.
Compare and contrast diverse historical, cultural, and global viewpoints demonstrated in a variety of texts.

Understanding

Students understand that:

The texts they read will have a variety of historical, cultural, and global viewpoints, which offer a multitude of perspectives on different topics.

Vocabulary

Fiction texts
Nonfiction texts
Perspectives
Informational texts
Digital texts
Multimodal texts
Historical viewpoints
Cultural viewpoints
Global viewpoints

Aligned Learning Resources

Comparing Portrayals of Slavery in Nineteenth-Century Photography and Literature

Using Picture Books to Explore Identity, Stereotyping, and Discrimination

Multiplying and Dividing with Negatives

Design by Adaptive Theme