Units
All 7 units of English Language Arts 9. Each one has a concepts page to learn from, practice questions marked as you go, and quizzes built at random.
Unit 1
Unit 1: Ideas and details
What a passage says, what it only shows, and how the time and place around a story change what it means. Every answer starts with a detail you can point at.
Unit 2
Unit 2: How a story is built
Conflict, the order events come in, and who is telling the story. Once you can see how a story is built, you can ask why the writer built it that way.
Unit 3
Unit 3: Words and figurative language
Why a writer picked this word and not the one next to it, what a comparison makes you feel, and the gap between what is said and what is meant.
Unit 4
Unit 4: Theme, purpose and the big picture
What a whole text is saying about life, why it was written and for whom, and what two texts share when you read them side by side.
Unit 5
Unit 5: Poetry and drama
How sound, line breaks and a speaker's voice carry meaning in a poem, and how a script shows what the characters never say out loud.
Unit 6
Unit 6: The narrative or essay
Reading the topic, choosing one focus, and writing sentences a marker wants to keep reading. The choices that move a piece up a scoring level.
Studying for the exam?
Mix every unit together
Build a random quiz drawn from all 84 questions across every unit, at the level you choose. It is the closest thing here to a real exam.