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Literacy · 9th Grade
Close Reading
Four passes over a text, each looking for something different.
How to use it
One pass cannot do four jobs. Read it four times with a different question each time.
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- Grade
- 9th Grade
- Ages
- 14–15
- Subject
- Literacy
- Pages
- 1
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Literary TermsThe terms high-school essays are expected to use, grouped and defined.Thesis & EvidenceHow to build a defensible thesis and the evidence sandwich that supports it.Analysing Sentence StructureWhat sentence length and shape do to a reader.Rhetorical Devices in SpeechesSix techniques that turn up in almost every famous speech.CharacterisationDirect and indirect — and why writers prefer the second.Symbol, Motif and ThemeThree connected ideas, and how one builds into the next.Evaluating Research SourcesFive checks before a source goes into a bibliography.From Notes to EssayThe bridge between having read everything and having written nothing.Function Notationf(x) is not multiplication — and everything else follows from getting that right.Domain and RangeWhich inputs are allowed, and which outputs actually appear.Factoring Out the GCFThe first thing to try, every single time, before anything else.