Grade 9 – Bias and Perspective

This worksheet is designed for Grade 9 students to strengthen critical reading, analytical writing, and media literacy by examining how bias and perspective appear in written communication-and how AI interprets them. Students select a short passage, use ChatGPT to generate a summary, and then analyze whether the AI’s language reflects neutrality or includes opinionated, emotional, or biased wording. Learners also examine the original author’s point of view to better understand how perspective shapes meaning.

Learning Goals

• Analyzing Author’s Purpose & Point of View (Grade 9) – Identify how an author’s perspective influences language and message.
• Identifying Bias in Texts – Detect opinionated, emotional, or slanted language in both human- and AI-generated writing.
• Summarizing & Paraphrasing Informational Texts – Evaluate how well an AI summary preserves meaning without adding bias.
• Media & Digital Literacy – Understand how AI may reflect, reduce, or unintentionally introduce bias.
• Critical Thinking in Current Issues – Apply analysis skills to real-world media and informational texts.

Instructional Benefits

• Teacher-Created Resource – Designed by educators to align with Grade 9 ELA, social studies, and technology standards.
• Comparative Analysis Format – Encourages close reading of both original texts and AI-generated summaries.
• Builds Skeptical Reading Habits – Reinforces that summaries and sources must be evaluated, not accepted blindly.
• Flexible Use – Ideal for media literacy units, argumentative reading lessons, current events analysis, or writing instruction.

This printable worksheet helps students become more discerning readers and writers by highlighting how bias and perspective shape communication. By comparing original passages with AI-generated summaries, learners strengthen analytical reasoning, awareness of tone and bias, and responsible use of digital tools. Suitable for classroom or homeschool use, this no-prep activity prepares students to critically evaluate information in an AI-influenced media landscape.

This worksheet is part of our ChatGPT Classroom Activities collection.