Analysis of Essay on a Prose Passage

Objectives: Students will be able to analyze exemplary essay on a prose analysis and write their own by applying the strategies through a carouseling activity.

Key Ideas and Details:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.1
Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text, including determining where the text leaves matters uncertain.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.2
Determine two or more themes or central ideas of a text and analyze their development over the course of the text, including how they interact and build on one another to produce a complex account; provide an objective summary of the text.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.3
Analyze the impact of the author’s choices regarding how to develop and relate elements of a story or drama (e.g., where a story is set, how the action is ordered, how the characters are introduced and developed).

Craft and Structure:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.4
Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in the text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone, including words with multiple meanings or language that is particularly fresh, engaging, or beautiful. (Include Shakespeare as well as other authors.)

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.5
Analyze how an author’s choices concerning how to structure specific parts of a text (e.g., the choice of where to begin or end a story, the choice to provide a comedic or tragic resolution) contribute to its overall structure and meaning as well as its aesthetic impact.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.6
Analyze a case in which grasping a point of view requires distinguishing what is directly stated in a text from what is really meant (e.g., satire, sarcasm, irony, or understatement).

Do Now: Share reflection on completing the My Analysis Handbook: what did you learn about annotation, introduction with a thesis statement and body paragraph structuring?

Mini Lesson

  1. Annotating for tone and theme
  2. Annotating structure and organization
  3. Thematic statement
  4. TILL statement

Student Independent Practice

Analyze an exemplary essay based on a prose passage.

Carouseling Activity

First Round

  1. Read the essay.
  2. Number the paragraphs and draw a line across between them.
  3. Circle upper level diction and diction specific to analysis of prose.
  4. Mark transition words.

Second Round

  1. Number the sentences in paragraph 1. Put slash marks at end of sentences.

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  2. Look up these words: façade, subservient, yearning, vicar, aesthetic. Write short definition or synonyms in the margin.

Third Round

in paragraph 2. Put slash marks at end of sentences.

  1. Mark TS—Topic Sentence.
  2. Highlight textual evidence.
  3. Put brackets around commentary.
  4. Mark CS—Conclusion Sentence.
  5. Discuss whether evidence is balanced with commentary.

 

Fourth Round

  1. Number sentences in paragraph 3. Put slash marks after sentences.
  2. Mark TS—Topic Sentence.
  3. Highlight textual evidence.
  4. Put brackets around commentary.
  5. Mark CS—Conclusion Sentence.
  6. Does each sentence contribute to the Topic Sentence and in turn to the thesis and prompt?

Fifth Round

Number sentences in paragraph 4. Put slash marks at the end of sentences.

  1. Mark TS—Topic Sentence.
  2. Highlight textual evidence.
  3. Put brackets around commentary.
  4. Mark CS—Conclusion Sentence.
  5. Discuss how this paragraph is different.

Sixth Round

Number the sentences in paragraph 5.

  1. What might you add to this conclusion to reinforce the prompt even more. Write two sentences that could be added.
  2. Write a sentence which subtly refers to the author and works in some aspect of introduction or prompt.

Seventh Round

Review discussion on the essay.

  1. Based on prior review of the essay, what score would you give the essay?
  2. Support your score with references to the scoring guide.