Adjudicating Sources: The Research Argument: Reading Unit 6, Grade 10 (Letters & Devotion)

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Adjudicating Sources: The Research Argument is Unit 6 of English 10: Identity, Society, and the Stories We Tell (Part 2) (Grade 10), the Letters & Devotion Reading course, complete in one printable PDF: 9 lessons, the unit check-up and the answer key, 88 pages.

• Rhetorical situation and appeals applied to a research source
• The multi-source evidence hierarchy
• MLA paraphrase, quotation, and in-text citation conventions
• Adjudication of contradictory source evidence
• Disagreement among sources on the student’s own contested question
• Counterargument/rebuttal paragraph structure with concession
• The distinction between rhetorical persuasiveness and evidentiary strength
• Research-based argumentative essay structure at the whole-essay level
• MLA Works Cited entry formats

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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