Name: ________________________________________________________ Per. ______ Date: ____________
Is That Your Problem Too?
Directions: Read the following thesis statement to a short essay analyzing James W. Hall’s poem,
“Maybe Dats Your Pwoblem Too.” Then quote and paraphrase lines in the poem that serve as textual
evidence to support the claim. Provide your reason(s) after “because….” Finally, synthesize by
elaborating on why the pieces of evidence work together to support the thesis statement.
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In his poem, “Maybe Dats Your Pwoblem Too,” James W. Hall uses humor and
some harsh truths to show that “it’s a hard thing to… recreate yourself, reinvent
yourself. Become someone different, someone new. Throw away one identity (and
mask) and put on another. We all struggle with [this] in some way or another. We
want to change, to grow, to abandon one set of personality features for better ones,”
but this is not easily done.
Words/Lines That Support
Because…
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