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Compare/Contrast: Hidden Figures to No Dream Too High

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2 questions
Note from the author:
  1. Score 4: The writer clearly analyzes and explains each author’s purpose and message, and how the purpose and message varies between the texts. The writer provides exemplary analysis, using relevant evidence from the text.
  2. Score 3: The writer analyzes and explains each author’s purpose and message, and how the purpose and message varies between the texts. The writer provides sufficient analysis, using relevant evidence from the text most of the time.
  3. Score 2: The writer begins to analyze or explain each author’s purpose and message, and how the purpose and message varies between the texts, but the analysis is incomplete. The writer uses relevant evidence from the text only some of the time.
  4. Score 1: The writer attempts to analyze or explain each author’s purpose and message, and how the purpose and message varies between the texts, but the analysis is not successful. The writer uses little or no relevant evidence from the text.
  5. Score 0: The writer does not provide a relevant response to the prompt or does not provide a response at all.
  1. Score 4: The writer clearly analyzes and explains each author’s purpose and message, and how the purpose and message varies between the texts. The writer provides exemplary analysis, using relevant evidence from the text.
  2. Score 3: The writer analyzes and explains each author’s purpose and message, and how the purpose and message varies between the texts. The writer provides sufficient analysis, using relevant evidence from the text most of the time.
  3. Score 2: The writer begins to analyze or explain each author’s purpose and message, and how the purpose and message varies between the texts, but the analysis is incomplete. The writer uses relevant evidence from the text only some of the time.
  4. Score 1: The writer attempts to analyze or explain each author’s purpose and message, and how the purpose and message varies between the texts, but the analysis is not successful. The writer uses little or no relevant evidence from the text.
  5. Score 0: The writer does not provide a relevant response to the prompt or does not provide a response at all.
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In “No Dream Too High,” the gymnast Simone Biles is a successful African American Olympic athlete who has faced racial discrimination, such as negative comments from competitors and the media. Identify an instance of discrimination in Hidden Figures. Explain how Biles’s experiences are similar to and different from the experiences of the women in Hidden Figures.

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Use the Venn diagram to compare and contrast the author's purpose and message in the article about Simone Biles and the excerpt from the biography Hidden Figures.

Then...use the Venn diagram to plan an essay in your journal. Make a plan. Write a rough draft. Revise and edit before typing it into the blank.

Use these questions to drive your thoughts.

What is the author's purpose and message in each text? How does each author make their purpose and message evident to the reader? How is the author's purpose and message similar and different in each text?

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