Demonstrate purpose, angle, loaded-language, statistical-framing, primary-source, synthesis, and media-critique skills using a short, unfamiliar informational passage.
This unit built one connected skill: reading informational texts as choices made by a real author, for a real purpose, rather than as simple, neutral fact-delivery. Purpose and angle (week 10) showed that even a persuasive medieval tapestry makes deliberate choices about what to feature. Comparing two tellings of 1066 (week 11) and spotting loaded language in Crusade-era chronicles (week 12) showed how the very same event can be shaped through emphasis and word choice.
From there, you learned that even a true statistic carries a framing choice (week 13), that a primary source must be questioned for its author, audience, and purpose before being trusted (week 14), that voice and register shift with purpose even when facts stay identical (week 15), that strong notes synthesize multiple sources by subtopic rather than listing them separately (week 16), and that even video can be critically separated into verified fact, reenactment, and mood-shaping editing (week 17). This checkpoint applies that full toolkit to a short passage you have never seen before.
Mastery looks like: They can apply at least four of this unit's seven skills (purpose/angle, comparing tellings, loaded language, statistical framing, primary sources, synthesis, media critique) accurately to an unfamiliar informational passage.
Common stumbles: Correctly defining a term like "loaded language" or "angle" in isolation but failing to spot it inside an actual unfamiliar passage.
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