Sustained Narrative: Reading a Novel Whole: Reading Unit 2, Grade 9 (Letters & Devotion)

Description

Sustained Narrative: Reading a Novel Whole is Unit 2 of English 9: Reading and Writing the Human Story (Part 1) (Grade 9), the Letters & Devotion Reading course, complete in one printable PDF: 8 lessons, the unit check-up and the answer key, 75 pages.

• Motif occurrences in the assigned novel (recurring concrete images/objects/phrases)
• The distinction between topic and theme
• Change in the protagonist’s (or a chosen major character’s) behavior/values across the novel
• The motif’s stability or instability of meaning across the novel
• Structural choices (event order, pacing, withheld information) in a designated chapter
• Criteria for identifying a motif, applied to an unfamiliar text
• A full-novel literary argument about motif or character change
• The general applicability of motif- and character-tracking methods across narrative forms

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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