This differentiated activity for the Ray Bradbury short story "Dark They Were and Golden Eyed" has students reading complementary non-fiction articles and writing a paragraph tying it all together. The topics are differentiated by interest and reading level. Students can explore the idea of current efforts being made to colonize Mars, or cultural assimilation. This is a great Common Core based activity that involves text evidence, non-fiction, fiction, and writing!
Two non-fiction articles are included for the Mars analysis, and three non-fiction articles are included for the cultural assimilation analysis.