Common Core Anchor Standard 9

What is it?

Compare and Contrast Themes and Topics

What does it mean?

Students can understand topics texts and themes in deeper ways.

Students compare and contrast similar themes or topics from a variety of sources.

Online media literature informational text verbal and visual information

Basic organizational text structures

Text by text: author describes all of one thing (A) and then all of another (B).

Point by point: author writes about one point for both A and B and moves to second point.

Similarities and differences: write about the similarities between A and B and then the differences of A and B.

The Two Purposes

The ability to analyze how two more texts address similar themes or topics to build knowledge.

The ability to analyze how two or more texts address similar themes or topics to compare the author’s approaches.

In Literature

Students may be asked to compare and contrast: characters, settings, themes, or poetic styles.

Students may be asked to write a comparative analysis of two works by same author or two stories with the same basic plot.

How do the CCS build to CCR Literature Text?

K and 1: C & C (compare and contrast) Adventures and experiences of characters in familiar stories.

2: C& C Two or more versions of the same story by different authors or cultures.

3: C & C Themes, settings, and plots of stories written by the same author.

4: C &C Treatment of similar themes and topics.

5: C & C Stories in the same genre.

Supporting Skills and Strategies Literature Texts

K and 1: Identify and recognizing characters, adventures, and experiences and then compare and contrast. Example: “Town Mouse, Country Mouse.”

2: Compare and contrast two or more of the same stories from different authors or cultures. Example: “Cinderella.”

3: Identify theme, setting, and plot. Compare and contrast them. Use a character map for each character is series. Example: “Series of Unfortunate Events.”

4: Identify patters of events in stories, myths, or traditional literature from different cultures. Example: African Folktale.

5: Identify, compare and contrast genres. Example: “Greenglass House.”

Informational Text

Students may write a comparative analysis essay: Social global issues, topics of information, histories figures, and scientific procedures.

How do the CCS build to CCR Informational Text?

K and 1: Identify basic similarities and differences between two texts on the same topic.

2: C & C the most important points on the same topic.

3: C & C the most important points and details.

4: Integrate information from two texts on the same topic in order to write or speak about a subject.

5: Integrate information from several texts on the same topic.

Supporting Skills and Strategies Informational Text

K and 1: Identify how two texts on the same topic differ or compare. Example: butterfly books.

2: C & the most important points in two texts on the same topic. Example: presidential books.

3: Identify key details and most important texts. Example: civil right movement books.

4: Obtain information from a text to write or speak. Example: westward expansion books.

5: Integrate information from two more texts to write or speak. Example: immigration books (3 books).

Integrating Other Standards

Literature-

RLS 1: Reading a narrative text closely.

RLS 2: Ability to retell a literature text.

RLS 6: Point of view.

RLS 7: How the illustrations in a text can establish mood, tone, and meaning

Writing 1: Expectations for writing opinions.

Informational-

RIT 2: Compare and contrast the main idea and details.

RIT 3: Describing connection and relationship among people, events, ideas or pieces of information.

WS 7: Participate in a brief or shared research project.

Integrate Technology

Interactive Tool: ReadWriteThink Website: tutorial on how to compare and contrast.

Bubbl.us: use to brainstorm and create bubble maps online.