Course curriculum

    1. Syllabus

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    1. 1.1 Close Reading Routine: annotating a passage in ten minutes

    2. Quiz 1.1

    3. 1.1 Interactive Lab: Closing Time: Notes and Inferences, Sentence by Sentence

    4. 1.2 Reading Poetry: speaker, form, lines, and stanzas

    5. Quiz 1.2

    6. 1.3 Reading Prose Fiction: paragraphs, dialogue, and narration

    7. Quiz 1.3

    8. 1.4 Reading Drama: stage directions, soliloquies, and asides

    9. Quiz 1.4

    10. 1.4 Interactive Lab: Who Can Hear It? Five Moments from Plays

    11. 1.5 Multiple-Choice Strategy for Passage Questions

    12. Quiz 1.5

    13. 1.5 Interactive Lab: Timed Drill: Passage Questions

    1. 2.1 Textual Details and Characterization: perspective and motives

    2. Quiz 2.1

    3. 2.1 Interactive Lab: Direct or Indirect, and What It Reveals

    4. 2.2 Motives, Values, and Agency: what choices reveal

    5. Quiz 2.2

    6. 2.3 Character Change: dynamic vs. static characters and their function

    7. Quiz 2.3

    8. 2.3 Interactive Lab: Before and After: What Changed, and What It Does

    9. 2.4 Contrasting Characters: foils and what they reveal

    10. Quiz 2.4

    11. 2.5 Relationships Between Characters: nuance and complexity

    12. Quiz 2.5

    13. 2.5 Interactive Lab: What Sits Under the Words

    14. 2.6 Choices, Actions, and Speech: complexity in a character

    15. Quiz 2.6

    16. 2.6 Interactive Lab: What the Gap Reveals

    17. 2.7 Character Question Set: timed practice on skills 1.A-1.E

    18. Quiz 2.7

    19. 2.7 Interactive Lab: Character Question Set: Timed Drill

    1. 3.1 Setting Details: time, place, and atmosphere

    2. Quiz 3.1

    3. 3.2 The Function of Setting: mood, conflict, and meaning

    4. Quiz 3.2

    5. 3.2 Interactive Lab: What Is This Setting Doing?

    6. 3.3 Character and Setting: how place shapes people

    7. Quiz 3.3

    8. 3.3 Interactive Lab: One Town, Two Speakers

    1. 4.1 Plot Order: chronology, flashback, and in medias res

    2. Quiz 4.1

    3. 4.1 Interactive Lab: Two Orders, One Story

    4. 4.2 Sequence of Events: why the order matters

    5. Quiz 4.2

    6. 4.2 Interactive Lab: Holding Back the Letter: What Each Order Does

    7. 4.3 Structure: lines, stanzas, sections, and the turn in a poem

    8. Quiz 4.3

    9. 4.3 Interactive Lab: What the Break Does

    10. 4.4 Poetic Form and Pattern: closed form, open form, and breaks in a pattern

    11. Quiz 4.4

    12. 4.5 Contrasts Within a Text: juxtaposition and tension

    13. Quiz 4.5

    14. 4.5 Interactive Lab: Find the Shift, Name the Values

    15. 4.6 Irony and Paradox: when words and events cut against each other

    16. Quiz 4.6

    17. 4.6 Interactive Lab: Name It, Then Say What It Does

    18. 4.7 Significant Events: climax, turning point, and consequence

    19. Quiz 4.7

    20. 4.8 Conflict: internal, external, and unresolved

    21. Quiz 4.8

    22. 4.8 Interactive Lab: Which Values Compete?

    23. 4.9 Plot and Structure Question Set: timed practice on skills 3.A-3.F

    24. Quiz 4.9

    25. 4.9 Interactive Lab: Plot and Structure Question Set: Timed Drill

    1. 5.1 Narrator or Speaker: who is telling and to whom

    2. Quiz 5.1

    3. 5.1 Interactive Lab: Who Is Telling, and to Whom?

    4. 5.2 Point of View: first, third limited, and omniscient

    5. Quiz 5.2

    6. 5.2 Interactive Lab: One Moment, Five Tellings

    7. 5.3 Narrative Distance and Consciousness: stream of thought and free indirect discourse

    8. Quiz 5.3

    9. 5.4 Diction and Tone: how language reveals a narrator's perspective

    10. Quiz 5.4

    11. 5.4 Interactive Lab: Name the Tone, Find the Words

    12. 5.5 Syntax: how sentence shape conveys perspective

    13. Quiz 5.5

    14. 5.5 Interactive Lab: Sentence Shapes and What They Stress

    15. 5.6 Narrator Reliability: when we should doubt the teller

    16. Quiz 5.6

    17. 5.6 Interactive Lab: Doubt the Teller, with Evidence

    18. 5.7 Poetic Speakers: persona, tone, and shifts in attitude

    19. Quiz 5.7

    20. 5.8 Prose Analysis Practice: a narrator-focused essay

    21. Quiz 5.8

    22. 5.8 Interactive Lab: Plan a Narrator Essay

    23. 5.9 Narrator and Speaker Question Set: timed practice on skills 4.A-4.D

    24. Quiz 5.9

    25. 5.9 Interactive Lab: Narrator and Speaker Question Set: Timed Drill

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