Question 1: Always Poetry
Question 2: Always a work of fiction-it could
be from a play, short story, or novel.
Question 3: Is in response to a novel.
The Process:
1) Look at the prompt and determine
what it is asking you to do
2) Read with a purpose- underline key
details that relate to the prompt, make
notes by areas that show complexity,
label literary terms.
3) Make your Introduction/thesis
statement
The relationship between Rosamond and
Tertius is ______ yet _________
Stressed
Caring
Proud-pride issues
Introduce the work and the author (In the
excerpt from the novel, Middlemarch, by
George Eliot)
Introduce the conflict
Thesis statement answering the prompt
Body paragraphs
Claim statement: This should connect back
to the thesis
Evidence from the text
Explain how the evidence supports the
claim and how it shows the complexity.
Literary terms: Tone, (Indirect (Inferences
about characters based upon what we
know from the text) and direct (When text
tells us details about the characters)
characterization, point of view(why it is
important) / perspective, conflict