Compare and contrast the treatment of a similar theme or topic in two or more works.

Participate in collaborative discussions on grade level topics, texts, and issues. Express ideas clearly and persuasively in collaborative contexts. Build on others’ ideas in the context of collaborative discussions. Integrate information for discussions and presentations from variety of formats. Evaluate a speaker’s reasoning and use of evidence. Evaluate a speaker’s point of view. Address alternative and opposing perspectives in presentations. Adapt speech to audience and purpose elect one of the early Renaissance paintings specified below and compare and contrast its depiction of human emotion in response to suffering with that in the text of Boccaccio’s “Tenth Day: Tenth Story” Your response should assert a specific argument about the portrayal of human emotion in response to suffering in each work. You must reference specific details in the literature as well as the painting to support your argument.