Synthesis questions focus mainly on:

• putting information and ideas together into a bigger whole to acquire a deeper broader understanding of a topic

• Making connections between topically realted history or science passages

• Locating data in info graphics such as table, graphs and charts; drawing reasonable conclusions from such graphics; and integrating info displayed graphically with info and ideas in a passage.

• Understanding how an author selects words phrases and language patterns to influence meaning, tone, and style.

Rhetoric has a broader meaning which is:

• The study of writing or speaking

• the study of math and science

• the study of sports and running

• the study of reading or writing

Analyzing multiple texts is:

• Understanding how an author selects words phrases and language patterns to influence meaning, tone, and style.

• Making connections between topically realted history or science passages

• Locating data in info graphics such as table, graphs and charts; drawing reasonable conclusions from such graphics; and integrating info displayed graphically with info and ideas in a passage.

• putting information and ideas together into a bigger whole to acquire a deeper broader understanding of a topic

Analyzing quantitative information is:

• putting information and ideas together into a bigger whole to acquire a deeper broader understanding of a topic

• Making connections between topically related history or science passages

• Understanding how an author selects words phrases and language patterns to influence meaning, tone, and style.

• Locating data in info graphics such as table, graphs and charts; drawing reasonable conclusions from such graphics; and integrating info displayed graphically with info and ideas in a passage.

Analyzing text structure is:

• Describing how an author shapes and organizes a passage and how the parts of the passage contribute to the whole.

• Understanding the point of view or which a passage is told and how that point of view or perspective affects the content and style of the passage.

• Determining the main rhetorical aim of a passage or a significant part of the passage, such as a paragraph

• Examining the claims, counterclaims, reasoning, evidence, and stylistic and persuasive techniques an author uses in an argument.

Analyzing point of view is:

• Determining the main rhetorical aim of a passage or a significant part of the passage, such as a paragraph

• Understanding the point of view or which a passage is told and how that point of view or perspective affects the content and style of the passage.

• putting information and ideas together into a bigger whole to acquire a deeper broader understanding of a topic

• Making connections between topically related history or science passages

Analyzing purpose is:

• Making connections between topically realted history or science passages

• putting information and ideas together into a bigger whole to acquire a deeper broader understanding of a topic

• Determining the main rhetorical aim of a passage or a significant part of the passage, such as a paragraph

• The study of writing or speaking

Analyzing arguments is:

• Determining the main rhetorical aim of a passage or a significant part of the passage, such as a paragraph

• Describing how an author shapes and organizes a passage and how the parts of the passage contribute to the whole.

• Understanding the point of view or which a passage is told and how that point of view or perspective affects the content and style of the passage.

• Examining the claims, counterclaims, reasoning, evidence, and stylistic and persuasive techniques an author uses in an argument.

Analyzing word choice is

• Locating data in info graphics such as table, graphs and charts; drawing reasonable conclusions from such graphics; and integrating info displayed graphically with info and ideas in a passage.

• putting information and ideas together into a bigger whole to acquire a deeper broader understanding of a topic

• Understanding how an author selects words phrases and language patterns to influence meaning, tone, and style.

• Making connections between topically realted history or science passages