Fair Categories and Balanced Evidence
Students read a short paired text about two school gardens (Lincoln High and Riverside Middle), draft candidate comparison categories, drop any category the evidence cannot support on both sides, and complete a side-by-side evidence table with citations for every cell.
Grammar target
Given two short related texts, choose at least three fair comparison categories the evidence supports on both sides, and record at least one evidence citation per category per case in a side-by-side table.
Essential question
What can we fairly compare about these two gardens — and what can we not compare because the evidence only speaks to one side?
Objective
Students can generate fair comparison categories from paired evidence and populate a side-by-side table with balanced, cited evidence — no unfair categories, no empty cells.