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English 10: Identity, Society, and the Stories We Tell (Part 2)

Grade 10, Units 5-8 · 350 pages · 37 lessons · PDF, print at home

This is a full year of 10th grade English built around one question: how much do people get shaped by their families, their communities, their history, and how much do they push back? Your child starts with short stories and works up to a whole novel, a Shakespeare play, real speeches and essays, and finally their own research paper. By the end they're picking a claim about a book or play, defending it in writing, and then defending it out loud when someone tries to poke holes in it. It's a lot of reading and a lot of writing, and it builds: nothing here is a standalone unit you do for two weeks and forget. This volume holds units 5 to 8: The Architecture of Persuasion; Adjudicating Sources: The Research Argument; Compression: Reading Poetry and Voice; Capstone: Defending a Claim Across Texts.

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English 10: Identity, Society, and the Stories We Tell

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Unit 5: The Architecture of Persuasion9 lessons
  1. 37.The rhetorical situation (speaker, audience, purpose, occasion)
  2. 38.Ethos, logos, and pathos appeals
  3. 39.The function of an appeal relative to a specific rhetorical situation
  4. 40.Appeal choices across two texts with a shared theme but different rhetorical situations
  5. 41.Concession and rebuttal structure
  6. 42.The relative persuasive weight of competing appeals in a single text
  7. 43.Audience-appropriate appeal design in an unfamiliar rhetorical situation
  8. 44.The distinction between rhetorical effectiveness and truth/validity of a claim
  9. 45.Unit vocabulary: ethos, logos, pathos, rhetorical situation, concession, rebuttal
Unit 6: Adjudicating Sources: The Research Argument9 lessons
  1. 46.Rhetorical situation and appeals applied to a research source
  2. 47.The multi-source evidence hierarchy
  3. 48.MLA paraphrase, quotation, and in-text citation conventions
  4. 49.Adjudication of contradictory source evidence
  5. 50.Disagreement among sources on the student's own contested question
  6. 51.Counterargument/rebuttal paragraph structure with concession
  7. 52.The distinction between rhetorical persuasiveness and evidentiary strength
  8. 53.Research-based argumentative essay structure at the whole-essay level
  9. 54.MLA Works Cited entry formats
Unit 7: Compression: Reading Poetry and Voice10 lessons
  1. 55.Extended metaphor as a sustained structural device across a poem's lines/stanzas
  2. 56.Apostrophe as a device that licenses a particular kind of claim-making by the speaker
  3. 57.The volta as the structural pivot point of a poem's argument
  4. 58.The listener-condition distinction between dramatic monologue and soliloquy as interiority techniques
  5. 59.Motif development compressed to poem-scale, as an application of Unit 3's chapter-scale motif tracking
  6. 60.Claim-level divergence between two poems sharing a topic, as distinct from topic-level similarity
  7. 61.Transfer of the full device-to-claim analytic toolkit to a wholly unseen poem
  8. 62.Transfer of the topic-vs-claim divergence logic to a non-poetic, non-previewed genre and context
  9. 63.The comparative analysis essay integrating device-based evidence, a stated divergence, and a prior-unit comparison point
  10. 64.Factual recall of this unit's core figurative-language vocabulary
Unit 8: Capstone: Defending a Claim Across Texts9 lessons
  1. 65.Cross-text claim selection matched to available evidence across the year's texts
  2. 66.The evidence hierarchy applied to the exact worked-example claim and quotations modeled in class
  3. 67.The evidence hierarchy applied to unfamiliar literary quotations rather than the modeled example or research sources
  4. 68.Adjudication of conflicting textual evidence within an argumentative essay
  5. 69.Rhetorical self-analysis of one's own argumentative writing using the ethos/logos/pathos framework
  6. 70.Live claim defense against unrehearsed counter-evidence in discussion
  7. 71.Units 2, 4, and 5 vocabulary (unreliable narration, narrative distance, dramatic irony, motif, rhetorical appeals)
  8. 72.Discrimination among confusable prior-unit analytical lenses applied to short excerpts
  9. 73.Transfer of the evidence-hierarchy and adjudication procedure to a wholly unfamiliar text and essential question pairing

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