The Speaker’s Stake: Poetry and Inference: Reading Unit 5, Grade 7 (Letters & Devotion)

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The Speaker’s Stake: Poetry and Inference is Unit 5 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, 59 pages.

• The distinction between a poem’s speaker and its poet
• Line breaks, stanza breaks, and form as structural choices in a poem
• The modeled three-step reasoning chain linking a structural choice to a stance, on the same poem used to teach it
• The relationship between a structural choice (e.g., short lines, an abrupt stanza break) and the speaker’s inferred stance
• Figurative language as textual evidence for an inference about speaker stance
• Two speakers’ contrasting stances on a shared theme, as an instance of point of view
• The counterclaim-acknowledgment structure, at the ‘address and rebut with evidence’ level
• Speaker’s stance in a wholly unfamiliar poem
• Structure-as-evidence for inference, generalized across genres

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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