1. Do now: Do you remember what the three parts of conflict?
Aim: How do we complete our TAR to the short story, “Equal Inheritance” by Leo Tolstoy?
Do now:
Do you remember what the three parts of conflict?

2. Aim: How do we complete our TAR to the short story, “Equal Inheritance” by Leo Tolstoy?
Part 3 Text-Analysis Response Your Task: Closely read the text of “Equal Inheritance” and write a well- developed, text-based response of two to three paragraphs. In your response, identify a central idea in the text and analyze how the author’s use of one writing strategy (literary element or literary technique or rhetorical device) develops this central idea. Use strong and thorough evidence from the text to support your analysis. Do not simply summarize the text.

3. Three components (parts) of conflict
develop
solution
Problem

4. Aim: How do we complete our TAR to the short story, “Equal Inheritance” by Leo Tolstoy?
The conflict then develops when the mom__________________________. The traveler says, “____________
________________.” [provide a second specific example/quote from the
text]. He means _________________________________because_______
__________________________________________________(explain the
quotation.) This evidence helps highlight the central idea by revealing that ________________________________________________________
(again explain how this example helps the writer to strengthen the central
idea).

5. Aim: How do we complete our TAR to the short story, “Equal Inheritance” by Leo Tolstoy?
Finally, the writer reinforces his central idea by showing the solution of the ______(the writing strategy), “______________________________ ___________________________________________________________” (quote one more example).

6. Aim: How do we complete our TAR to the short story, “Equal Inheritance” by Leo Tolstoy?
This evidence means ___________________
________________________________________(explain the example in
your words). This solution of the conflict in the story highlights the central
idea because________________________________________________
(relate your discussion to the central idea again by further pointing it out.)

7. Aim: How do we complete our TAR to the short story, “Equal Inheritance” by Leo Tolstoy?
Overall, this use of ________________________ (strategy) by the author
allows him/her to successfully convey the idea that __________________
___________________________________(restate central idea).