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Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Growing Up Colored, by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
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Growing Up Colored, by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
TASK 25. Document Analysis/Sourcing

TASK 25. Document Analysis/Sourcing

With this task, teachers can help students determine degrees of bias in a text by identifying the source’s subject, author, purpose, time period in which it was created, and audience, as well as the author’s point of view.

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