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Writing a Literary analysis essay
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Assignment
Your assignment is to write a multiparagraph literary analysis essay in response to the following prompt (or another provided by your teacher):
In Edward Bloor’s novel Tangerine, how did one character’s choices and the consequences of these choices affect the development of the main character?
Planning and Prewriting: Take time to make a plan for your essay.
• How will you respond to the prompt in a clear thesis statement?
• How will you use the notes you have taken to find textual evidence to support your thesis?
• Will you organize your supporting ideas by importance, type, or time?
Drafting: Write a multiparagraph essay that effectively organizes your ideas.
• How will you use an outline to help you draft your essay?
• How will your introduction engage the reader with a hook, summarize the novel, and state your thesis?
• How will you integrate topic sentences, transitions, details, textual evidence, and commentary in your support paragraphs?
• How will your conclusion include your thesis as well as an interpretation of the author’s purpose and a connection to a larger issue?
Evaluating and revising the Draft: Create opportunities to review and revise your work.
• During the process of writing, when can you pause to share and respond with others?
• What is your plan to include suggestions and revision ideas into your draft?
• How will you be sure to use precise, academic language, and a variety of sentence structures?
• How can the Scoring Guide help you evaluate how well your draft meets the requirements of the assignment?
Checking and Editing for Publication: Confirm your final draft is ready for publication.
• How will you proofread and edit your draft to demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English, capitalization, punctuation, spelling, grammar, and usage?
• Have you put page numbers in parentheses wherever you quoted directly from the text?
• What would be an engaging title for your essay?
reflection
After completing this Embedded Assessment, think about how you went about accomplishing this task, and respond to the following:
• How did the reading and note-taking strategies that you used during this unit help prepare you to write a literary analysis essay?
my Notes
Unit 3 • Choices and Consequences 207
W.7.2a: Introduce a topic or thesis statement clearly, previewing what is to follow; organize ideas, concepts, and information, using strategies such as definition, classification, comparison/contrast, and cause/effect; include formatting (e.g., headings), graphics (e.g., charts, tables), and multimedia when useful to aiding comprehension. CA
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Materials: Tangerine, by Edward Bloor; completed Choices and Consequences charts and double-entry journals; outlines from Activity 3.14; access to computers for word processing (optional) Suggested pacing: 2 50-minute class periods
1 With the class, review the prompt, having students mark the text to identify all the requirements. Review the chart created at the beginning of the unit to unpack this assessment.
2 Planning and Prewriting: You might wish to guide students
in writing thesis statements. Emphasize that the thesis statement should make a point, which is the student’s opinion, but it should not state the point as a personal opinion. In other words, the thesis should not include statements such as “I think” or “I believe that.”
3 Drafting: You may wish to remind students how to properly cite quotations.
4 If students need help remembering transition words, consider putting a Transition Words chart in your classroom.
cOMMOn cOre STaTe STanDarDS
W.7.2b: Develop the topic with relevant facts, definitions, concrete details, quotations, or
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W.7.2c: Use appropriate transitions to create cohesion and clarify the relationships among ideas and concepts.
W.7.2d: Use precise language and domain- specific vocabulary to inform about or explain the topic.
Focus Standards:
9781457304637_TCB_LA_SE_L7_U3_P4.indd 207
Unit 3 • Choices and Consequences 207
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