M&M Chapter 15, pgs. 437-440, "Developing Critical Literacy"

In the age of digital information, researchers must make constant decisions about the nature and use of sources. They must decide how a ____(1)_____ entry, for instance, may differ from a ____(2)_____ article or a ____(3)_____ document.

• 1) unbiased; 2) worldview; 3) interpreting

• 1) analyze; 2) evaluate; 2) synthesize

• 1) Wikipedia; 2) journal; 3) historic

• 1) community; 2) question; 3) functions

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CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

They must ___(1)______ the intended audience of sources, ______(2)_____ sources according to standard criteria, and _____(3)______ sometimes contradictory voices.

• 1) unbiased; 2) worldview; 3) interpreting

• 1) analyze; 2) evaluate; 2) synthesize

• 1) Wikipedia; 2) journal; 3) historic

• 1) community; 2) question; 3) functions

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CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

Researchers must develop the ability to sift through the mountains of opinions, reports, images, theories, and data—and to make sound judgments about the nature of all that information. Scholars and teachers across the disciplines often refer to this ability as ______________.

• naïve and even dangerous hope

• synthesis

• critical literacy

• antithesis

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CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

In a world saturated with information (news reports, breaking news reports, blogs, tweets, documentaries, and talk shows for every political persuasion), people sometimes long for simple facts. They want to read or hear something without an overt opinion attached to it. But this can be a...

• naïve and even dangerous hope.

• synthesis.

• critical literacy

• antithesis.

Facts are tricky. They can appear _____(1)_____, but they often emerge from a particular _____(2)_____, from a specific way of ____(3)_____ a situation.

• 1) unbiased; 2) worldview; 3) interpreting

• 1) analyze; 2) evaluate; 2) synthesize

• 1) Wikipedia; 2) journal; 3) historic

• 1) community; 2) question; 3) functions

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CCSS.RL.11-12.6

How does this passage present a particular slant or "frame" on a situation? "Today in Milford, rush hour traffic was slowed when over two thousand protesters gathered around the town square to challenge a new city ordinance that will allow Pemblebrook Industries to open another facility in the city limits. The new facility will bring thirty to forty new jobs into Milford. Construction is to begin by early fall."

• The situation is framed by the cause of the protest. We learn about an overnight meeting but not the jobs.

• The situation itself is framed by traffic. We learn about new jobs but do not learn about the destruction of wetlands.

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CCSS.RI.11-12.10

CCSS.RI.6.10

CCSS.RI.7.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RI.9-10.10

How does this passage present a particular slant or "frame" on a situation? "Today in Milford, over two thousand people gathered downtown in a peaceful protest against a new city ordinance that will change zoning of the Stark's wetland area. The ordinance, passed in an unpublicized overnight council meeting, was celebrated by Pemblebrook Industries, which hopes to drain and pave the wetland to make way for a new bottling facility."

• The situation is framed by the cause of the protest. We learn about an overnight meeting but not the jobs.

• The situation itself is framed by traffic. We learn about new jobs but do not learn about the destruction of wetlands.

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CCSS.RL.11-12.6

T/F: Texts can be biased and factual.

• True

• False

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CCSS.RL.11-12.6

T/F: Collectively held opinions represent facts.

• True

• False

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CCSS.RL.11-12.6

When an entire ____(1)______ (or civilization) believes something without ___(2)_____—as every community does—the idea ___(3)_____ as a fact.

• 1) unbiased; 2) worldview; 3) interpreting

• 1) analyze; 2) evaluate; 2) synthesize

• 1) Wikipedia; 2) journal; 3) historic

• 1) community; 2) question; 3) functions

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CCSS.RL.5.6