Assignment: Wed 11.17: Cranes Revision

ELA 10A - Heintschel - Tri 1
2021-11-17T17:51:40Z

Due: Nov 19, 2021 by 11:59pm

Today, you will rewrite a chunk of your interpretive writing or add a chunk to your interpretive writing.

If you are not sure if you should rewrite or add, consider this: if you left the ending of the story out of your analysis, you should add a chunk of analysis about that.

Your rewrite/add should include:

A claim

Evidence

Commentary

Some more info about these three parts:

The claim should be a clear claim about what is happening to Songsam at some point in his change process, describing how he is changing and/or how he is affected (feeling) in that part of the story.

The evidence should be a combination of summary, paraphrasing, specific details, or lines from the story.

Providing details to give context for evidence = summarize (because reader needs info to understand context of most important evidence)

Detail showing a change in the character = quote (because they are the author’s words and they are most important for showing the change in character)

You should explain how your evidence supports your claim. We call this commentary, or reasoning. Basically, you are explaining how the stuff you read in the text leads you to your ideas. If you don’t explain your thinking, then you’re asking your reader to read your mind (hint: they can’t).

150-200 words.

Today, you will rewrite a chunk of your interpretive writing or add a chunk to your interpretive writing.

If you are not sure if you should rewrite or add, consider this: if you left the ending of the story out of your analysis, you should add a chunk of analysis about that.

Your rewrite/add should include:

A claim

Evidence

Commentary

Some more info about these three parts:

The claim should be a clear claim about what is happening to Songsam at some point in his change process, describing how he is changing and/or how he is affected (feeling) in that part of the story.

The evidence should be a combination of summary, paraphrasing, specific details, or lines from the story.

Providing details to give context for evidence = summarize (because reader needs info to understand context of most important evidence)

Detail showing a change in the character = quote (because they are the author’s words and they are most important for showing the change in character)

You should explain how your evidence supports your claim. We call this commentary, or reasoning. Basically, you are explaining how the stuff you read in the text leads you to your ideas. If you don’t explain your thinking, then you’re asking your reader to read your mind (hint: they can’t).

150-200 words.