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Using two articles (one from a printed encyclopedia and one in electronic form) about the life of a Civil War Soldier that you will research, create a chart comparing the information found in both articles. What are the differences? What information is the same?

For your electronically printed article, please go to the school media center website and use one of their databases.

Feel free to watch the animated video below to get some tips on how to compare articles on the same topic.

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Fun Animation Explaining How To Compare and Contrast Nonfiction Texts

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You will use the "Printing Press" app to write your own newspaper article reflecting information from any of the informational texts we've read in class.

http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/Printing_Press

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For further research on the American Civil Rights Movement check out this website which includes an authentic audio recording of MLK and LBJ discussing voting rights!

http://www.lbjlib.utexas.edu/Johnson/lbjforkids/main.htm

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Review the images in this link from American Museum of Photography
http://www.photographymuseum.com/faceof.html

Use this Venn Diagram tool to compare and contrast the portrayal of slaves in our readings from "The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass" and the images from the website above.
http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/venn_diagrams/

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Choose quotes from the excerpts assigned in "The Diary of a Young Girl" and determine if you are reading facts or opinions.

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Reading Strategies for Informational Texts
http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/06/14/the-times-and-the-common-core-standards-reading-strategies-for-informational-text/?_r=0

The graphic below provides samples of trigger words that indicate if you are reading an informational text or not.

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Fact or Opinion?

http://www2.mcrel.org/compendium/activityDetail.asp?activityID=34

Comparing Portrayals
http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/lesson-plans/comparing-portrayals-slavery-nineteenth-30527.html?tab=1#tabs

Twin Texts
http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/lesson-plans/beyond-history-books-researching-30927.html?tab=1#tabs
Electronic vs. Print Text
http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/lesson-plans/comparing-electronic-print-texts-68.html
Reporting Informational Texts
http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/lesson-plans/book-report-alternative-sharing-31041.html

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CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.R.8
Delineate and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, including the validity of the reasoning as well as the relevance and sufficiency of the evidence.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.7.9
Analyze how two or more authors writing about the same topic shape their presentations of key information by emphasizing different evidence or advancing different interpretations of facts.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.7.3
Analyze the interactions between individuals, events, and ideas in a text (e.g., how ideas influence individuals or events, or how individuals influence ideas or events).

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- To read several informational texts regarding historical events
- To use both print and electronic information and understand how to determine their reliability
- To determine fact vs. opinion in informational texts
- To effectively compare and contrast how similar events and characters are portrayed in various informational mediums

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How are similar historical events portrayed by different texts?

How do we determine the validity of information found in informational texts?