After students complete these lessons they will be better equipped to apply the following to their reading:

•	Analyze relationships within passages, including how people, events, and ideas are connected
•	Put events in order
•	Make inferences or draw conclusions about plots, sequence of events, characters, settings, and ideas in passages
•	Determine the relationship between ideas
•	Analyze how details develop the main idea
•	Identify the author's point of view and purpose
•	Determine how the author explains a position and responds to different viewpoints
•	Infer the author's purpose in the passage when it is not stated

I have a B.A. in literature (and credential to teach high school English), Master's in Education  and have taught many English classes as part of the faculty at a community college. 

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