In this unit students will determine how industrialization impacts the balance of power, how an author develops an argument, and how to analyze a text from the perspective of social power.
Priority Standards
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.8.8: Delineate and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, assessing whether the reasoning is sound and the evidence is relevant and sufficient; recognize when irrelevant evidence is introduced.
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.8.1: Write arguments to support claims with clear reasons and relevant evidence.
- SS.EC.2.6-8.MdC. Describe the roles of institutions, such as corporations, non-profits, and labor unions in a market economy.
- SS.EC.1.6-8.MC: Evaluate alternative approaches or solutions to current economic issues in terms of benefits and costs for different groups and society as a whole.
- SS.Soc.6.9-12 Analyze the impact of stratification and inequality on groups and the individuals within them.
We are learning to... - Understand how industrial practices throughout the 19th and 20th centuries shifted the balance in power between companies, workers, and government.
- How people responded to the changes that resulted in the industrial revolution.
- How to evaluate and trace an author’s argument throughout a text.
- Explain how an author develops an argument.
- What makes an argument sound or unsound, strong or weak.
- Write arguments with strong reasons, relevant and sufficient evidence, and sound reasoning.
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