Reading & Writing in the Content Areas
Aligned to RH.11-12 — Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts.
What this lesson teaches
College-ready disciplinary literacy means evaluating multiple sources and the premises and reasoning in seminal texts, synthesizing complex technical and historical information, and writing sophisticated, evidence-based arguments and explanations.
Worked example
Analyzing a Supreme Court opinion alongside a historian's critique, you evaluate the legal reasoning and synthesize both into a short argument about whether the ruling was justified.
Practice questions
- Evaluate the premises and reasoning in a seminal text.
- Synthesize a technical source and a historical source.
- Write a research argument from history or science, citing sources.
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Every lesson comes with a video taught in English and Spanish — the same video the QR code in the printed workbook opens.
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Lectura y escritura en las áreas de contenido
La alfabetización disciplinaria a nivel universitario implica evaluar múltiples fuentes y los fundamentos y razonamientos de textos fundamentales, sintetizar información técnica e histórica compleja, y redactar argumentos y explicaciones sofisticados basados en evidencias.
Ejemplo: Al analizar una opinión de la Suprema Corte junto con la crítica de un historiador, evalúas el razonamiento jurídico y sintetizas ambos en un argumento breve sobre si el fallo estuvo justificado.
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