Grade 11: Reading & writing
Start with a unit whose prerequisites fit. Work through the lessons, use the study guide to review, and try the new cases before continuing.
- Unit 1 · 4 lessons
Interacting Themes, Paradox and Satire
Apply analyze interacting ideas, interpret a paradox, identify a satirical target, recognize narrator reliability cues using supplied texts and original responses.
Before you begin: Explain irony, character tension and contextual imagery.
- Unit 2 · 4 lessons
Definitions and Assumptions in Extended Essays
Apply identify a definition strategy, identify a hidden assumption, recognize an essay development pattern, interpret an ambiguity using supplied texts and original responses.
Before you begin: Distinguish premises, conclusions and source attribution.
- Unit 3 · 4 lessons
Usage Decisions and Complex Syntax
Apply distinguish usage and grammar questions, use a compound modifier hyphen, analyze subordinate clause placement, choose a reference type using supplied texts and original responses.
Before you begin: Recognize clauses, parallelism and contextual word meanings.
- Unit 4 · 4 lessons
Build an Extended Explanation for a Defined Audience
Apply choose a definition technique, explain a paragraph connection, develop precision for a reader, write an explanatory ending using supplied texts and original responses.
Before you begin: Organize explanatory paragraphs and define unfamiliar terms.
- Unit 5 · 4 lessons
Synthesize measures, framing, and limits
Distinguish experience from outcomes, check measurement definitions, compare value framing, and revise overclaims.
Before you begin: Compare sources with different tasks, settings, and groups. · Integrate attributed evidence and answer a practical counterargument.
- Unit 6 · 4 lessons
Trace Sources and Document a Research Process
Apply connect a citation to its source, distinguish source versions, record research process decisions, separate source dependence using supplied texts and original responses.
Before you begin: Keep quotations, paraphrases and source locators.
Check what you can explain
The subject test uses additional supplied cases across these units. Its feedback links back to the relevant lessons. Use it to plan practice; a score on these questions is not a school grade or proof of complete subject mastery.
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