POETRY ANALYSIS SELF-ASSESSMENT Featuring COLORS!

What’s with the colors? Often, having visual reinforcement helps us learn, understand, and remember. Today, our goal is to take a look at our own writing, to assess whether or not we have all the essential parts of analysis. Use each color to identify a different part of your writing. If the part is missing, make a note in the margin for future reference.

At a glance, we can see our ideas unfold in our writing! Let’s get started. P.s. share your colors nicely…

Using RED, draw an outline around the part of your paper where you give context to your reader. (Name of work, name of author, brief re-cap of what it’s about)

Using ORANGE, draw a small star in front of your thesis statement.

Use YELLOW to underline any direct quotes you used as evidence.

Use GREEN to underline spots where you talked about literary devices and the effect they have on the reader.

Use BLUE to circle the part where you talk about how the piece can relate to us/society.

Use PURPLE to draw a wavy line under what you consider to be your best sentence.

Now, take out a pen or pencil. We’re going to do a little reflection on the back of your paper.

REFLECTION QUESTIONS (10 minutes) 1. What did you do right? Tell about the process you went through to write your analysis and how you knew what to include. 2. When looking back on your first attempt at analysis (“Respiration”), what have you improved on? Give specific examples.