6 free text analysis & essays resources for 9th Grade: 6 worksheets. Answers included.
Analyzing texts, techniques and essay writing for senior English. 9th grade students solve more complex equations, work with linear graphs, meet Pythagoras' theorem and trigonometry, and expand binomials.
Students will practice: identifying persuasive techniques in advertising; explaining the intended effect of a technique on an audience; identifying a target audience from textual evidence; writing an analytical paragraph about a persuasive text; identifying figurative language and sensory imagery; distinguishing tone from mood; explaining how word choice creates mood; analyzing contrast in a literary text.
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Students read an original print advertisement and identify the techniques it uses to position readers: emotive language, inclusive…
Students read an original prose extract and examine how imagery, figurative language, sensory detail and word choice build mood, and how…
Students analyze an original poem about a clock repairer who works patiently while the city rushes past outside. They examine imagery and…
Students analyze an original newspaper-style opinion column arguing against supermarket self-checkouts. They identify the writer's…
A short story analysis worksheet built around The Lighthouse Clock, an original story about a family waiting for news while a grandfather…
A visual literacy worksheet that teaches the language for discussing posters and advertisements without needing a printed image. Students…
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Analyzing texts, techniques and essay writing for senior English. At 9th Grade, our resources focus on: identifying persuasive techniques in advertising; explaining the intended effect of a technique on an audience; identifying a target audience from textual evidence; writing an analytical paragraph about a persuasive text.
Start with the Level 1 or Level 2 worksheet, then move up a level. Finish with the topic test if there is one.
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