A Perspective Sustained: Novel Study: Reading Unit 3, Grade 7 (Letters & Devotion)

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A Perspective Sustained: Novel Study is Unit 3 of Reading Arguments, Writing Positions: Grade 7 English Language Arts (Grade 7), the Letters & Devotion Reading course, complete in one printable PDF: 9 lessons, the unit check-up and the answer key, 58 pages.

• First-person vs. third-person limited narration in the novel
• Narrator’s limited access and its effect on shown causes of plot events
• The inference-evidence filter applied to character motive
• Change in a character’s point of view across chapters of the novel
• Character motive at an unmodeled turning point in the novel
• Generalized principle of narrative omission applied to an unseen text
• Counterclaim-and-rebuttal paragraph structure for a literary motive argument
• Unit 1 argument vocabulary: claim, evidence, counterclaim, sufficiency
• Peer’s textual evidence for a character motive claim

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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