Literary Analysis Claims

Both Charles Dickens and James Joyce incorporate dialogue into their passages. Use the evidence you have gathered from both passages to write an essay analyzing how the dialogue in each passage functions to reveal aspects of the characters. You should discuss more than one character from each passage

• Research Simulation

• Narrative Writing

• Literary Analysis

You have read passages from the novels The Georges and the Jewels and Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Horse. Both were written in the first-person point of view. Write an essay in which you compare the way the authors use first-person point of view to develop the characters. Be sure to cite specific examples from both passages.

• Research Simulation

• Narrative Writing

• Literary Analysis

You have read two texts about people who make pottery. Think about how the narrator in the passage from A Single Shard and the speaker in “Turn, Turn, My Wheel” respond to the potters in each text. Write an essay that compares and contrasts how the narrator and the speaker view the potters in the passage and in the poem. Be sure to cite specific details and examples from both texts to support your essay

• Research Simulation

• Narrative Writing

• Literary Analysis

Today you have read two passages about main characters, Stef and Darnell, who are each faced with a challenge. Write an essay that describes each character’s challenge and compares how each character responds to the challenge Use evidence from both passages to support your response.

• Research Simulation

• Narrative Writing

• Literary Analysis

An assertion open to challenge; What the author/speaker is trying to convince their audience is true

• pathos

• logos

• rhetoric

• claim

What is a writer's position on a central issue or idea?

• support

• evidence

• claim

• counter-argument

What is a claim?

• A statement of fact

• A genre of writing

• A sentence that tells you what your story is about to be about.

• A statement of a writer's argument, position, or opinion

What is the definition of a claim?

• an introduction to evidence

• a direct quote from the text

• a "mic drop" moment

• an opinionated statement that can be argued; is supported by evidence

state or assert that something is the case, typically without providing evidence or proof.

• Supporting details

• Central idea

• Claim

• Theme

What is a claim in the context of a story or argument?

• A rewording of something written or spoken by someone else

• A debatable point that must be proven with evidence and reasoning

• Information from the text that supports a claim

• To quote or paraphrase a text