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English 10

Suggested grade 10 · Unit 1: Literary Decisions

Analyze Conflicting Motivations

Trace a character who wants two things that cannot both be obtained easily.

▷ 2 teacher video choices: Analyze Conflicting Motivations
Preview lesson: Analyze Conflicting Motivations

Goal: Analyze how a character’s conflicting motives affect an interaction and advance the plot.

Before this: Support an inference with more than one detail.

Try together: Compare “Rafi never cares about winning” with a qualified account of competing motives. Which details resist the absolute claim?

Subject-content contributionRL.9-10.3Grades 9–10
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English 10

Suggested grade 10 · Unit 1: Literary Decisions

Examine an Interrupted Timeline

Analyze why a writer withholds information and inserts an earlier scene.

▷ 2 teacher video choices: Examine an Interrupted Timeline
Preview lesson: Examine an Interrupted Timeline

Goal: Compare chronological and interrupted versions of a scene and explain two effects of their structure.

Before this: Distinguish chronological order from the order a narrator reveals events.

Try together: Discuss whether the flashback confirms guilt or merely directs suspicion. Cite the detail that limits certainty.

Subject-content contributionRL.9-10.5Grades 9–10
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