You will be able to read and analyze a poem using your knowledge of literary and poetic devices.

You will read carefully in order to identify diction, tone, and irony, and evaluate their impact on the meaning of a text.

You will be able to read and analyze a short story using your knowledge of literary and poetic devices.

You will read carefully in order to identify allusion, imagery, metaphor, and symbolism, and evaluate their impact on the meaning of a text.

You will be able to read and analyze an essay using your knowledge of literary devices and strategies.

You will learn skills necessary for reading and writing to a prompt.

You will learn to find and analyze the main idea and supporting ideas in a variety of texts.

You will be able to identify strategies authors use in order to make their arguments more easily understood.

You will be able to make decisions about an author’s word choice or diction in order to discover the author’s tone(s).

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You will apply what you learned in lessons 1–6 to improve your reading fluency and comprehension.

You will learn to use strategies that help you make connections between a text and events that happened in the past, as well as events that are happening now.

You will be able to determine why a character’s dialect may contribute to the meaning of the text.

You will read and annotate paired texts in order to make inferences, draw conclusions, and synthesize ideas and details using textual evidence.

You will be able to evaluate the role of diction and tone in literary nonfiction such as speeches, essays, and other forms.

You will read and annotate paired texts in order to make inferences, draw conclusions, and synthesize ideas and details using textual evidence.

You will learn how to annotate or mark a text as you read and re-read to gain a deeper understanding of the text.

You will learn strategies to help you determine whether a written argument is logical and/or valid.

In this lesson, you will be able to identify the imagery in a text and evaluate its effectiveness.

In this lesson, you will be able to find the allusions in a text, and discuss the role allusions play in helping you understand the text.