Synthesis: A Second Novel and the Multi-Genre Portfolio: Reading Unit 9, Grade 9 (Letters & Devotion)

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Synthesis: A Second Novel and the Multi-Genre Portfolio is Unit 9 of English 9: Reading and Writing the Human Story (Part 2) (Grade 9), the Letters & Devotion Reading course, complete in one printable PDF: 9 lessons, the unit check-up and the answer key, 76 pages.

• The four year-long analytical lenses (narrator reliability, theme/motif, historical context, rhetorical evaluation) and their diagnostic cues in a passage
• Year-long vocabulary set from Units 1-5 and 8
• The relationship between narrator reliability and warranted theme claims in the synthesis novel
• An arguable, text-specific literary analysis claim integrating at least two analytical lenses
• Credibility and relevance criteria for external sources applied to the synthesis novel’s argumentative topic
• Reader-confusion-driven revision of the literary analysis essay draft
• Justification of lens-combination choice against a proposed alternative interpretation
• A general heuristic mapping text features to productive analytical lenses, transferable beyond the two novels studied this year
• Sorting of collected textual evidence by analytical lens (narrator, theme, context, rhetoric)

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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