Literary Genres, Close Reading, and Textual Evidence
Recognize major literary genres, annotate important details, make supported inferences, and write evidence-based responses.
Literature, language, communication, and evidence-based writing for increasingly independent learners.
Begin with close reading across literary genres and evidence-based analysis.
Recognize major literary genres, annotate important details, make supported inferences, and write evidence-based responses.
Use context strategies, distinguish nuanced meanings, interpret figurative language, and analyze tone and mood.
Maintain agreement and tense, combine phrases and clauses, vary sentences, and connect ideas coherently.
Analyze central ideas and structures, evaluate arguments and sources, and research with accurate paraphrasing and citation.
Grade 7 English Comprehensive Review and Grade 8 Readiness
Analyze theme, character development, conflict, narrative perspective, and relationships between texts.
Analyze morphology, nuance, symbolism, imagery, diction, syntax, tone, and stylistic effect.
Control complex grammar, clauses, transitions, academic register, evidence integration, and revision.
Evaluate arguments and media messages, recognize faulty reasoning, verify claims, and synthesize research.
Grade 8 English Comprehensive Review and Grade 9 Readiness
Read across traditions, connect historical and cultural context, trace theme and character, and develop critical interpretations.
Analyze rhetorical appeals, complex word meaning, figurative craft, syntax, tone, and stylistic effects.
Control complex sentences, develop evidence-based claims, address counterclaims, and revise for logic, style, and accuracy.
Evaluate sources, synthesize and cite research, analyze media messages, and communicate ethically across modes.
Review literature, rhetoric, grammar, argument, research, media, and multimodal communication.
Apply critical lenses, analyze form and theme, compare texts across traditions, and develop nuanced interpretations.
Analyze rhetorical situations, nuanced language, argument strategies, fallacies, style, and voice.
Control complex grammar, organize academic paragraphs, integrate evidence, and revise systematically.
Design focused inquiries, synthesize sources, verify media claims, and communicate professionally and ethically.
Review literature, rhetoric, academic writing, research, media literacy, and professional communication.