Read like a literary detective
Build, challenge and revise interpretations using precise textual evidence, then compare how two texts create meaning.
Explore Read like a literary detectiveEnglish Language Arts
Investigate a narrator, reshape a scene, defend a reading, and change your mind with evidence. Choose a high-school scaffold or college extension without losing your work.
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Write with purpose
Plan, draft, test and revise an explanatory feature whose claims, structure and language serve a specific audience.
Explore Write with purposePoetry, drama and performance
Interpret poems and dramatic scenes by making, comparing and defending choices about language, line, voice, pause and action.
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Separate a textual observation from an inference and give a plausible alternative explanation.
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Stories and creative writing
Develop a character-driven story, test choices of viewpoint, scene, dialogue and structure, and produce a substantial revision with an adaptation.
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Create an accountable public argument in two media, test its assumptions and revise for a skeptical audience.
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Develop a qualified position through inquiry, source synthesis, purposeful organization and substantive revision, with an inspectable research trail.
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Develop a critical interpretation through sustained reading, formal analysis, responsible context and comparison, then curate an annotated exhibit that makes the reasoning inspectable.
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Explore this courseResearch, editing and publishing
Investigate a bounded question, evaluate and synthesize sources, collaborate through accountable edits, and produce a research feature with a source dossier and correction plan.
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Explore this courseEvidence, not an automatic essay score
Keep annotations, drafts, revisions and unfamiliar-text responses. Completion records practice; a rubric supports human judgment. No account, paid API, recording or public posting is required. Original teaching texts are labeled as such.