{"product_id":"close-reading-mystery-unit-years-7-to-9-analytical-writing-no-prep-emberwick","title":"Close Reading Mystery Unit Years 7 to 9 | Analytical Writing No Prep | Emberwick","description":"\u003cp\u003eA no-prep close reading and analytical writing mystery for Years 7 to 9 (Grades 7 to 9): thirteen ready-to-teach lessons, plus an end-of-unit assessment with an analytical essay. Open one file on your projector, press the right arrow and teach. No logins, no student devices, and it works offline.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYour students become investigators in Emberwick, a harbour town. On Friday the Harbour Board will take the Arden family's home because of one night in 1926, when the lighthouse went dark and the steamer Marigold was wrecked and robbed. Wren and Felix have found a box of old evidence. Every lesson opens one piece of it and asks how it makes its meaning, and a claim only counts when the class can quote the words that prove it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWHAT A LESSON LOOKS LIKE\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYou run every lesson from the computer on your projector or board. Your students write on paper, in their own printed Investigator's Casebook. Every lesson has a short voiced story, a case to crack, one analytical skill, a model you reveal step by step, a whole-class activity, an analytical paragraph and an exit ticket. The class activity changes every lesson: a scan race, two chairs in role, a case conference, a lock room, a reopened inquiry.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYour notes are on every step. Press ? for what to say, questions to ask and the answers. A timer, hints and reveals are one key away.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eREAL TEXTS TO ANALYSE\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe evidence is a newspaper front page, a letter, a diary, three photographs, a ballad, an inquiry record, the Gazette's editorial on the inquiry, an unsigned letter, a keeper's log and a letter written thirty-two years later. Two real poems sit beside them: \"The Inchcape Rock\" (Robert Southey, 1802) and seven stanzas of \"The Lighthouse\" (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1850). 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Each clue lights a place on the Night Map, five suspects are weighed card by card, and in Lesson 13 the class reopens the 1926 inquiry and argues its finding.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFOR THE STRUGGLERS, AND THE FAST FINISHERS\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEvery writing task has a word bank and a TEEL frame, printed straight after its writing page in the Casebook, and the frames fade as the case goes on. There's a plainer \"quick read\" of the longest letter, and the Lesson Guide has EAL\/D notes for every lesson. For every writing task the Lesson Guide shows a model answer and what separates a C answer from an A in Year 8, and what shifts in Years 7 and 9. 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