Synthesis: The Novel in Public Argument: Reading Unit 8, Grade 12 (Letters & Devotion)

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Synthesis: The Novel in Public Argument is Unit 8 of Literature, Rhetoric, and the Examined Life (Part 2) (Grade 12), the Letters & Devotion Reading course, complete in one printable PDF: 9 lessons, the unit check-up and the answer key, 89 pages.

• The distinction between structural, rhetorical, and thematic reading demands as applied to a single passage
• The novel’s structural device as an implicit argument about responsibility
• Ethos/logos/pathos appeals in a nonfiction public-argument text, including appeals that invoke the right surface feature but fail to function persuasively
• The relationship between the novel’s implicit claim and a nonfiction text’s explicit claim on the same issue
• A counterargument-and-rebuttal paragraph integrating literary and nonfiction evidence
• The novel’s ambiguity as a strength or weakness relative to public argument on its issue
• The three-lens synthesis routine applied to unfamiliar novel/issue material
• Course-wide vocabulary terms from Units 1-6
• The multi-source synthesis essay’s organizational structure

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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