Compare and contrast one author's presentation of events with that of another (e.g., a memoir written by and a biography on the same person).

It's middle school, and so it's time to show students that things are much more complex than it seems. When it comes to informational text, complexity comes in the form of multiple viewpoints on the same topic, and this standard asks students to start to consider how different authors' viewpoints can get. Or maybe they have the same exact viewpoint. In which case, one author might be a clone of the other, not that Shmoop has anything against clones.