Arguing With Sources: Synthesis Across Multiple Texts: Reading Unit 5, Grade 11 (Letters & Devotion)

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Arguing With Sources: Synthesis Across Multiple Texts is Unit 5 of American Voices, American Arguments: Literature and Rhetoric in Context (Part 2) (Grade 11), the Letters & Devotion Reading course, complete in one printable PDF: 10 lessons, the unit check-up and the answer key, 91 pages.

• Conflicting claims about individual authority in Transcendentalist and slave-narrative texts
• The definition of synthesis as claim-construction versus summary as sequential restatement
• A source-conflict map showing agreement, disagreement, and talking-past among two sources, using the modeled pair and structure
• A source-conflict map showing agreement, disagreement, and talking-past among three sources
• The concession-without-surrender move in argumentative paragraphs
• The evidentiary status of a chart or social-media post used within a written argument
• An original synthesis claim built from four previously unseen but topically related sources
• The difference between describing source conflict and resolving it into an original claim
• Argument-based (versus source-based) organizational structure for a multi-source essay
• Collaborative extension and challenge of peer claims about source conflicts

Every lesson is written for a parent with no teaching background: it opens with a short script to read aloud, names the specific wrong idea a student is likely to reach for and how to correct it, and closes with a practice sheet you may copy for your household. Scripture references are King James Version throughout. Black-and-white, 8.5 x 11 in. The whole year of this course is also in this store as a single book.

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