Staged Conflict: Drama and Contrasting Motives: Reading Unit 6, Grade 7 (Letters & Devotion)

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Staged Conflict: Drama and Contrasting Motives is Unit 6 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.

• The distinction between dialogue and stage directions as two separate categories of textual evidence in a script
• The three basic formatting elements of a script page (character header, stage direction, dialogue), applied to a page not previously annotated in class
• The inference filter question applied to a character’s motive, evidenced by a specific line of dialogue
• Protagonist versus antagonist as contrasting points of view within one conflict
• Dramatic irony as an information gap between audience and character
• Director/actor staging choices as an added layer of point of view not present in the script text itself
• Justification of a character’s motive using dialogue evidence filtered for sufficiency
• Counterclaim rebuttal using dialogue evidence, at the ‘rebut with evidence’ rigor level specified in the course’s rising counterclaim structure
• Transfer of the dialogue-evidence inference method to an unfamiliar play text

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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