1. Comparing and contrasting what authors say (and how they say it)
Lesson 17: tackling complexity nonfiction

2. Teaching point
Today, I want to teach you that after researchers read a few sources on a topic, they compare and contrast those texts, noticing how they portray the topic in similar ways—and how they are different. Then, they speculate about why authors made these craft and structure decisions, thinking, ‘Does this relate to the main ideas they’re teaching?’

4. What does this part want to teach?
Scientific research could help animals, particularly when they face all these problems.

5. Structure vs Craft

6. Structure vs Craft
Problem/Solution

7. Structure vs Craft
Problem/Solution

8. Structure vs Craft
Problem/Solution

9. Structure vs Craft
Problem/Solution

10. Alien Deep
Science doesn’t always follow a clear-cut path. Sometimes discoveries happen that completely derail everything that we thought we knew. Think of Galileo and the discover that Earth orbits the sun, not the other way around, or Charles Darwin, whose theory of evolution took biology into completely new and unexpected directions. Scientific revolutions happen when we stop seeing the world we expect and start seeing the world as it is.
The incredible biological world of the vents may never have been discovered had scientists not been trying to solve a geological puzzle.

11. Some craft moves to remember:
Science doesn’t always follow a clear-cut path. Sometimes discoveries happen that completely derail everything that we thought we knew. Think of Galileo and the discover that Earth orbits the sun, not the other way around, or Charles Darwin, whose theory of evolution took biology into completely new and unexpected directions. Scientific revolutions happen when we stop seeing the world we expect and start seeing the world as it is.
The incredible biological world of the vents may never have been discovered had scientists not been trying to solve a geological puzzle.
Some craft moves to remember:
Word choice
Structure choices
Repetition
Text features

12. Prompts to help

13. Make a plan of action
Revisit contradictions you have already found, comparing and contrasting what those authors teach and how they teach them. Reread your text with this new idea in mind, noticing places when author teach about the same subtopic and compare the different texts to one another.

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