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Unit 9: Entering the Conversation

Claims and Evidence: Reading

Tell a concession from a rebuttal from a refutation, read the transitions that bring in the other side, and explain how each move qualifies a writer's claim.

Topic 9.3 · 15 min read

This lesson comes with the AP English Language and Composition plan

In this lesson

  1. 01How evidence lines up against a thesis
  2. 02Three ways to answer the other side
  3. 03Signals that the other side is coming, and leaving
  4. 04Worked examples
  5. 05Where students lose points
  6. 06On the exam

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