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How One Author Would Respond: 6-5: Official SAT mapping?
Use the Text 1 → Text 2 → relationship sequence.
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Craft and Structure → Cross-Text Connections.
Reading & WritingChapter 6: Cross-Text Connections
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Twenty recall-focused Cross-Text Connections cards for Topic 6-5.
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How One Author Would Respond: 6-5: Three-stage model?
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Understand Text 1, understand Text 2, then evaluate the stem-directed relationship.
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How One Author Would Respond: 6-5: What makes an answer cross-text?
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Its accuracy depends meaningfully on information from both texts.
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Test the statement against both texts and preserve each qualification.
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How One Author Would Respond: 6-5: Does the same topic prove agreement?
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No. A shared topic does not establish a shared claim.
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How One Author Would Respond: 6-5: Scope words to protect?
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May, can, often, primarily, only, some, and under specified conditions.
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How One Author Would Respond: 6-5: Text-2-only trap?
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A statement accurately supported by Text 2 that lacks support from Text 1 when both are required.
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How One Author Would Respond: 6-5: Overgeneralization warning?
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Reject an absolute conclusion when either text states a condition, uncertainty, or limited context.
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How One Author Would Respond: 6-5: Relationship prediction?
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Before reading choices, complete: Text 2 ___ Text 1 by ___.
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Test the statement against both texts and preserve each qualification.
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How One Author Would Respond: 6-5: Why identify the stem criterion?
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One pair may support several true relationships, but only the requested comparison answers the question.
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How One Author Would Respond: 6-5: Final verification?
Use the Text 1 → Text 2 → relationship sequence.
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Point to exact support in Text 1 and Text 2, then check attribution, relationship, scope, and certainty.
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How One Author Would Respond: 6-5: Direct agreement?
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Both texts affirm the same relevant proposition with compatible scope.
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How One Author Would Respond: 6-5: Partial agreement?
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The texts share a bounded claim but differ elsewhere in emphasis, scope, cause, or interpretation.
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How One Author Would Respond: 6-5: Alternative explanation?
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Text 2 may accept Text 1's observation while proposing a different cause or mechanism.
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Test the statement against both texts and preserve each qualification.
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How One Author Would Respond: 6-5: Different evidence?
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The texts use distinct information sources; that fact alone does not determine whether their claims agree.
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How One Author Would Respond: 6-5: Unsupported intent warning?
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Do not infer admiration, hostility, certainty, or motive unless the text establishes it.
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How One Author Would Respond: Author-response rule
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Use the responding text's stated stance, not an imagined personality, motive, or outside belief.
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How One Author Would Respond: Three-step response method
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Identify the target claim, locate the responding text's relevant point, and preserve its certainty.
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How One Author Would Respond: Text 2 supports a claim only in cities. Response to a universal claim?
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Qualify it by limiting the claim to the urban context Text 2 supports.
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Test the statement against both texts and preserve each qualification.
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How One Author Would Respond: Wrong-claim-target trap
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Applying a real Text 2 idea to a different part of Text 1 than the stem names.
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How One Author Would Respond: Likely response is not inference without limits
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A response must be a reasonable application of the text's position, with no invented attitude or certainty.
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