Students will examine logical thinking strategies and apply these strategies to literary and real-life situations.
Priority Standards
We are learning to...
- RL.9-10.3: Analyze how complex characters (e.g., those with multiple or conflicting motivations) develop over the course of a text, interact with other characters, and advance the plot or develop the theme.
- RL.9-10.5 - Analyze how an author's choices concerning how to structure a text, order events within it (e.g., parallel plots), and manipulate time (e.g., pacing, flashbacks) create such effects as mystery, tension, or surprise.
- RI.9-10.8 - Identify false statements and fallacious reasoning.
- W.9-10.3 - Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, well-chosen details, and well-structured event sequences.
We are learning to...
- Analyze how complex characters (e.g., those with multiple or conflicting motivations) develop over the course of a text, interact with other characters, and advance the plot or develop the theme within a mystery text.
- Analyze how an author’s choices concerning how to structure a text or order events create effects such as mystery, tension, or surprise.
- Understand deductive and inductive reasoning.
- Understand the validity and soundness of logical arguments.
- Use logical reasoning to make correct inferences, craft arguments, and think critically about arguments.
- Write narratives to develop a mystery using effective technique, relevant descriptive details, a well-structured plot, and logical reasoning.
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