Historical, social, and cultural context in texts

Why is it important to understand the context of a text?

• Context is optional in understanding a text.

• Context provides tools to more fully understand the meaning of a text.

• Context helps you remember important events in the plot of the story.

• Context is the first thing you read in the text.

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Which of these could be considered part of the social context of a book?

• All of these are examples of social context.

• Women are not allowed to vote or own property.

• The characters are all from Australia.

• The characters are having a party.

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CCSS.RL.5.3

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Which of these could be considered part of the historical context of a book?

• It takes place during the Civil War.

• Some of the characters are wealthy

• It takes place in Atlanta, Georgia.

• The book was written in 1912.

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CCSS.RL.5.3

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Jeff is reading a book that takes place during the Revolutionary War. This is an example of what type of context?

• cultural

• social

• effective

• historical

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How does cultural context affect a story?

• Cultural context is not important to a story.

• Cultural context includes important historical events that occur around the same time as the story.

• Cultural context tells how the society's expectations and rules of conduct affect the characters in the story.

• Cultural context gives the time and place where the story occurs.

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

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CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Choose the detail that provides historical context.

• In the United States, most places have public libraries.
• Thanks to technology we have a new kind of library.
• The first libraries belonged to ancient kings.
• Crowdsourcing” means getting a lot of people involved to help with a project.

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Choose the detail that provides social context.

• In the past, only people in New York could use the New York Public Library. Now, the library is online and everyone can enjoy it.
• When the main branch was opened in 1911, it had a collection of over one million books
• In the basement of the library, there is a room filled with computer programmers and designers who are bringing new technology to the library
• In the Middle Ages, monasteries and convents had libraries

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CCSS.RI.7.2

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CCSS.RL.7.1

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Choose the detail that provides cultural context. 

• Outside this main building, two giant stone lions guard the entrance
• The librarians will help if you have a question and there are even free classes to help people learn how to use new computer programs
• In the basement of the library, there is a room filled with computer programmers and designers who are bringing new technology to the library.
• The Internet is a tool that helps people find information much faster than if they were to look in books, so a lot of libraries have begun using computers and technology to help people keep learning.

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Social Context...

• deals with events that happened in the past and how they affect stories.
• describes where people are from and how they interact with each other.
• deals with peoples ideas and beliefs about the world and how people should live in it.

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CCSS.RL.6.3

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Cultural Context...

• deals with events that happened in the past and how they affect stories.
• describes where people are from and how they interact with each other.
• deals with peoples ideas and beliefs about the world and how people should live in it.