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Rhetoric and Persuasion

9th Grade · Reading · Easy · about 10 minutes

RI.9-10.6 | Rhetoric and Persuasion - Easy level

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Standards referenced

• CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.9-10.6 — Determine an author's point of view or purpose in a text and analyze how an author uses rhetoric to advance that point of view or purpose.
• CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.9-10.8 — Delineate and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, assessing whether the reasoning is valid and the evidence is relevant and sufficien

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