Grade 9: 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
Conflict, Motivation and Narrative Time
Apply distinguish conflict dimensions, trace a motivation change, analyze presentation of time, interpret a literary comparison using supplied texts and original responses.
Before you begin: Analyze plot, setting and figurative language.
- Unit 2 · 4 lessons
Rhetorical Choices and Logical Support
Apply analyze a rhetorical device, distinguish a premise from a conclusion, diagnose the stated logic condition, analyze diction and audience using supplied texts and original responses.
Before you begin: Identify appeals, evidence scope and qualifiers.
- Unit 3 · 4 lessons
Parallel Construction, Semicolons and Colons
Apply test parallel construction, choose a clause join, check a colon’s introduction, name a phrase’s function using supplied texts and original responses.
Before you begin: Distinguish independent/dependent clauses and sentence shapes.
- Unit 4 · 4 lessons
Build interpretations and bounded arguments
Use accurate evidence for an argument, a literary interpretation, an attributed source claim, and an organized explanation.
Before you begin: Analyze a narrator’s access to motives and track a theme. · Write a paragraph connecting evidence, reasoning, and limits.
- Unit 5 · 4 lessons
Characterization, Dialogue and Narrative Cohesion
Apply show character through a technique, use dialogue mechanics, make scene transitions coherent, choose a reflective ending’s scope using supplied texts and original responses.
Before you begin: Draft connected scenes with time cues and precise detail.
- Unit 6 · 4 lessons
Narrow an Inquiry and Annotate Sources
Apply classify inquiry boundaries, identify an annotation’s component, match evidence to a question, plan an attribution action using supplied texts and original responses.
Before you begin: Keep notes, quotations and interpretations distinct.
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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