English Reading and Literature for Ages 11 to 15 Course

What you will learn in 2 lessons

1. 1

   Making Inferences and Citing Evidence

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   The learner draws inferences from fiction and non-fiction, chooses the strongest evidence, embeds quotations and explains how they support a point.

   5 learning goals

   What you will learn

   1. 1.Read for what a text states and what it implies
   2. 2.Build and test inferences
   3. 3.Choose the strongest evidence
   4. 4.Quote and paraphrase accurately
   5. 5.Write point–evidence–explanation paragraphs
2. 2

   Literary Analysis of Fiction

   The learner analyses how plots unfold, how characters change, how setting shapes events, how themes develop and how a narrator's point of view affects the reader.

   6 learning goals

   What you will learn

   1. 1.Follow how plot and setting shape a story
   2. 2.Analyze characters and how they change
   3. 3.Work out a story's themes and summarize it fairly
   4. 4.Explain how point of view shapes a story
   5. 5.Compare stories with older stories and with history
   6. 6.Write an analysis of fiction