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R.ELA.12.17

Description: Analyze seventeenth-, eighteenth-, and nineteenth-century foundational U.S. informational documents of historical and literary significance (e.g., The Declaration of Independence, the Preamble to the Constitution, the Bill of Rights and Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address) for their themes, purposes, rhetorical features, and current relevancy.
Maps to Reading Plus skills: 9A

Exemplars

9A: Comparing/Contrasting

9A: Comparing/Contrasting

Description: Compare, Contrast, and/or Integrate

SeeReader
✓ standard met

Selection: L-37

L-37

Grade level: 12
Word count: 2368 words
Author: Joe Novelli
Synopsis: Once prohibited, capoeira is now celebrated as one of Brazil's most popular national sports.
Excerpt: Slave owners often tore families apart, forcing them to live and work with people from different countries and tribes. This way all of those in captivity spoke different languages. If slaves could not communicate, they could not organize themselves effectively to work toward their freedom.

Workers on Brazilian plantations were also prohibited from practicing martial arts and other cultural traditions. It was against the slave owners' best interests to let their captive workforce learn anything that would help them escape.

Question: How do these two excerpts work together?
  1. They both illustrate methods that slave owners used to keep slaves from organizing and fighting back.
  2. They both highlight how slaves could communicate with one another across language barriers.
  3. They both demonstrate why slave owners were not overly concerned with slaves practicing capoeira.
  4. They both show the ruthlessness of the Portuguese slave owners in Brazil during the 1900s.

Writing
✓ standard met

Writing prompt: Use a Venn diagram to compare two non-fiction selections on the same topic.

Evaluator

Organization: Certica Solutions