Read like a literary detective
Build, challenge and revise interpretations using precise textual evidence, then compare how two texts create meaning.
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Preparation: Bring curiosity and the ability to read a short passage. No literary vocabulary is assumed. Read aloud, pause or reread as needed; speed is not assessed.
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0/6 investigations completed. Portfolio: not submitted. These records do not certify proficiency.
Lesson sequence
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What did the text actually say?
Separate a textual observation from an inference and give a plausible alternative explanation.
Can you trust this narrator?
Compare a narrator’s claims with reported actions and distinguish limited knowledge from possible self-justification.
How do words change the temperature?
Revise diction and syntax to create two defensible tones while preserving the scene’s events.
What changes when the ending comes first?
Distinguish event chronology from narrative order and explain the effect of withholding information.
Make the strongest case against your reading
Compare two interpretations using supporting and complicating evidence, then qualify a claim.
Put two texts into conversation
Build a comparative argument about how two texts treat a shared question through different formal choices.
A comparative literary casebook
Curate an argument about how readers judge people through incomplete information. Use at least two course texts, preserve a changed interpretation, and test your method on an unfamiliar passage.
Course practice consists of the six investigations and the portfolio. The project rubric makes the quality expectations explicit; human review remains separate.
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