Students read excerpts from Niccolò Machiavelli’s political treatise, The Prince. Students use the skills, practices, and routines that they have developed throughout the year to identify central ideas and consider rhetoric and point of view.
Grade 10 ELA Module 4, Unit 3

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Common Core Learning Standards
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RI.9-10.2 | Determine a central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text,... |
RI.9-10.5 | Analyze in detail how an author’s ideas or claims are developed and refined by particular sentences... |
RI.9-10.6 | Determine an author’s point of view or purpose in a text and analyze how an author uses rhetoric to... |