Common Core Spiral Analysis SCED 303 Dr. Duggan

Anchor Standards for Reading Craft & Structure, #6 Analyze how point of view or purpose shapes the content and style of a text

6th Grade Standard: Explain how an author develops the point of view of the narrator or speaker in a text This standard is asking students to focus on a general point of view for a SINGLE character. Example Text: Twain’s The Adventures of Tom Sawyer This text helps keep students focused on a single characters point of view, all of the way through

7th Grade Standard: Analyze how an author develops and contrasts the points of view of different characters or narrators in a text This standard asks students to understand MULTIPLE points of view, and to have the ability to analyze differences between them. Anothony Brown’s Voices in the Park Brown creates vivid character images, portraying each character as an animals in a human world with human problems.

Great link for 7th graders In the Classroom with Roz Linder. http://ontheweb.rozlinder.com/teaching-rl-6-multiple-perspectives- and-points-of-view/ She explains why she chose Voices in the Park, and provides links to the standards her lesson apply to

8th Grade Standard: Analyze how differences in the points of view of the characters and the audience or reader (e.g., created through the use of dramatic irony) creates such effects as suspense or humor. This standard is asking students to be aware of character viewpoints, as well as how the author wants the audience to view certain characters and situations Example Text: The dramatization of The Diary of Anne Frank. The readers will probably know, or be able to predict what happens to Anne and her family, but they will be able to use that knowledge to draw out the suspense of the situations.

Possible Lesson for Anne Frank Before they start reading, prepare students to be on the lookout for how the playwright builds suspense as the story progresses. As they read, have the students annotate their text when they notice the author building suspense. In their notebooks, they should journal for a paragraph or two about how each scene has helped build upon the previous scene’s suspense.

9th & 10th Grade Standard: Analyze a particular point of view or cultural experience reflected in a work of literature from outside the United States, drawing on a wide reading of world literature This standard expands content to incorporate international literature, and to have a cultural understanding of the characters in the book. Through that understanding, they must be able to see how cultural experience effects a characters actions and mindest. Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities Students will see the turmoil and stuggles of different class levels in 19th century Europe, and witness a story told from different points of view.

11th & 12th Grade Standard: Analyze a case in which grasping point of view requires distinguishing what is directly stated in a text from what is really meant (e.g., satire, sarcasm, irony, or understatement). This standard asks the students to have an understanding of a variety of literary devices (satire, sarcasm, irony, understatement) and to be able to recognize when they are used within a text. The Declaration of Independence This text would provide a good opportunity for cross-curricular study, but also give readers an opportunity to explore the complexity of a text declaring freedom for all men, while simultaneously maintaining a system of slavery for an entire race of people

How to effectively work within the standard’s framework Achievethecore.org is a website set up by the non-profit group, Student Achievement Partners. The SAPs were created by the writers of the Common Core, and the website is designed to help guide teachers towards the proper tools to help impliment the standards into their curriculum. The website provides helpful videos to aid in instruction, as well as links to help teachers find material.

How to effectively work within the standard’s framework (cont.) www.PARCConline.org The official PARCC website provides several links to websites that provide support texts and instruction to better understand the Core. The website also provides explainations for testing expectations, as well as downloadable documents that provide further explanations for their expectations. Very dry, and text heavy. Be prepared to be here a long time.

Council of Chief State School Offices A useful link for these standards was “Navigating Text Complexity,” set up by CCSSO: http://www.ccsso.org/Navigating_Text_Complexity.html This site has several different areas to help in building an understanding of what the Core counts as a complex test. Includes videos, extra links, and document downloads to help you and students understand text complexity.