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With your writing group, you have created a thesis statement and two support paragraphs that you could use for a compare-and-contrast literary analysis essay. You still need an introduction and a conclusion to have a complete essay.
5. With your class, brainstorm the key elements of an effective introduction to a literary analysis essay.
6. Next, brainstorm the key elements of an effective conclusion to a literary analysis essay.
7. Write either an introduction or conclusion for your essay while your partner or half of your small group writes the other. Share drafts and respond by marking each other’s drafts for the key elements you identified in Step 4.
8. Compare-and-contrast essays use special transition words to help create internal and external coherence. Revise your draft to add precise transition words that will help your reader follow as you move from one idea to another.
Transitions to use when comparing: also, alike, both, in the same way, likewise, similarly
Transitions to use when contrasting: but, different, however, in contrast, instead, on the other hand, unlike, yet
9. Final Draft: Following your teacher’s guidelines, use technology to produce
and publish a final draft of your co-constructed essay in collaboration with your partner or small group. As you collaborate, eliminate unnecessry wordiness and repetition. With your class, brainstorm ways that you could use technology to share and respond as a class to the other groups’ essays.
INdepeNdeNT
readING LINk
Read and Research
Extend your understanding of the motif of brotherhood in Tangerine by doing some research about sibling relationships. Look up print and online sources that explain why some sets of siblings get along and others do not. Or use your research to find another fictional story about brothers (or sisters) who have relationships similar to or different from those in Tangerine. Describe your findings by writing one or two paragraphs in your Independent Reading Log.
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