Lesson #5
ANALYZING CHARACTER MOTIVATION
in "The Lady or the Tiger?"
First, READ THE STORY - "The Lady or the Tiger?"
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As a class, we will discuss the questions in the above slide show. If you are not in class, review the questions and consider your own answers. You may even want to journal about your thoughts.
#2 Answer the SELECTED RESPONSE QUESTIONS
Next, you will answer the Selected Response questions that you find right after the story. One note: Do not trust your memory for the answers. Go back into the text to find the answers in print. Then make the best choice to answer each question. Write the page and paragraph number where you find each answer.
#3 Answer the TEXT DEPENDENT ANALYSIS QUESTION
Answering the Text Dependent Analysis is the most time-consuming part, but after all of your practice, these steps should be becoming part of you. Remember, the steps we have been learning and practicing.
- Read the prompt and decide what it is asking.
- Choose your answer to the prompt and write your claim.
- Reread the text to find and highlight evidence that supports your claim.
- Look over the highlighted evidence and decide why each piece is significant (in the margins, next to each piece of evidence, jot down what category each falls in).
- Now that you have your claim and your evidence, write your thesis statement.
- After your thesis statement, write at least three powerful topic sentences.
- Then you can begin adding your evidence to each of the supporting paragraphs and explaining why each piece of evidence is important to prove your claim.
- Strengthen your argument by building clincher sentences for each paragraph that punch your thesis point.
- Next, you will write your counterargument. (This is a new skill; please see the directions below.)
- Using all of the strong points you just created in your supporting paragraphs and counterclaim paragraph, restate your thesis statement in 4-5 distinct sentence, each punching a different reason that proves your thesis point.
- Take a moment to summarize the text for the introduction. (My recommendation is the SOMEBODY, WANTED, BUT, SO method).
- Finally, you are allowed to add a touch of your own creativity. You must write your attention-getter and final thoughts. Remember, these two are designed for your audience: the attention-getter to draw them in and the final thoughts to leave the with a gift. These two are even more powerful if they connect to each other. Consider how you can draw the reader in with a story and finish the story in the final thoughts OR start with the opposite scenario of what you are proposing and end with the proper scenario that will occur if your readers follow your advice throughout the essay.
New Skill - ADDING THE COUNTERARGUMENT
In this essay, we will be adding an additional paragraph, THE COUNTERARGUMENT. We will need to discount the people who believe the other side of the argument. Watch this video to gain a basic idea of creating an effective counterargument.
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WRITING a LITERARY ESSAY
Choose one of the previous literary outlines you created to use for an entire essay.
With the outlines that you have already created, you practically have your essays written. You will just need to add flow between your sentences and paragraphs (see REVISING below), and you will need to do some editing to make sure you are turning in professional work (see EDITING below).
REVISING
Compare the two paragraphs below. Comment on what you notice about the differences. Which flows better?
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EDITING
We are just going to focus on two aspects of writing for editing this essay: SENTENCE STRUCTURE and WORD CHOICE. Of course, you'll also want to check on your spelling, grammar, and punctuation. That is always expected.
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