1. Chapter 10 Response to Literature
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2. What Do You Think? Introducing Response to Literature
Chapter 10 • Response to Literature
What Do You Think?
Authors have purposes for writing. Some authors write to inform. Some
write to entertain. Others write to persuade.
Part of being an active reader is analyzing the author’s purpose. You
think about the author’s purpose and use details to show how the author achieves that purpose.
Think about your favorite book. What do you think the author was trying to communicate by writing this book? Consider these questions as you participate in an extended discussion with your class. Take turns expressing your ideas and feelings.
How did you feel when reading this book?
How did the author achieve his purpose?
Do you think the author did a good job achieving his or her purpose? Why or why not?
What details support your answer?
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3. Choose and Narrow Your Topic
Chapter 10 • Response to Literature
Choose and Narrow Your Topic
Choosing a topic that is too broad results in writing that is too general.
Use a graphic organizer like this one to narrow your topic. Write your general topic in the top box, and keep narrowing your topic as you move down the chart. Your last box should hold your narrowest or “smallest” topic, the new focus of your comparison essay.
Two short stories
“Tumbleweed” by Todd England and “West World” by Maria Lopez
Both stories address themes about the American West.
England and Lopez both see the West as a place of constant change, despite the unchanging images of the West in our culture.
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4. Plan Your Piece Chapter 10 • Response to Literature Thesis Quotation:
You will use a graphic organizer like the one shown to state your thesis, organize your main points of analysis, and identify details. When it is complete, you will be ready to write your first draft.
Thesis
England and Lopez
both see the West as a place
of constant change, despite the
unchanging images of the
West in our culture.
Quotation:
Quotation:
“Pratt now worked
at the strip mall where his
horse corral used to stand.”
(“Tumbleweed”)
“Linda parked her
sports car and entered the
stable for her horse riding
lesson.” (“West World”)
Commentary:
Commentary:
This shows that…
Here readers see
that…
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5. The Organization of a Comparison Essay
Chapter 10 • Response to Literature
The Organization of a Comparison Essay
Grab Your Reader
Opening statement
Titles and authors of literary works
Clear thesis statement
Develop Your Ideas
Evidence, including quotations, from text
Commentary
Characteristics of an analytical essay
Wrap It Up
Restatement of thesis
Memorable ending
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6. Revising: Making It Better
Chapter 10 • Response to Literature
Revising: Making It Better
Now that you have finished your first draft, you are ready to revise. You can use your Revision RADaR as a guide for making changes to improve your draft. Remember—you can use the steps in Revision RADaR in any order.
Revision RADaR
Replace . . .
Words that
are not
specific
are overused
Sentences
that are
unclear
Add . . .
New
information
Descriptive
adjectives
and adverbs
Rhetorical or
literary devices
Delete . . .
Unrelated ideas
Sentences that
sound good,
but do not
make sense
Repeated words
or phrases
Unnecessary
details
Reorder . . .
So most
important
points are last
To make better
sense or to
flow better
So details
support main
ideas
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7. Fine-Tune Your Draft Chapter 10 • Response to Literature
Use the revision suggestions to prepare your final draft.
Employ Tropes Use analogies to make comparisons between ideas.
Use Transitions If necessary, add transition words and phrases such as therefore, however, and although to show the relationships between paragraphs and sentences.
Achieve Rhetorical Purpose A rhetorical purpose is the reason for a particular style of writing. In a comparison essay, the rhetorical purpose is to compare two or more things. Check that your essay truly compares two works. Add or delete information as needed.
Use Relevant and Substantial Evidence Include references to quotations from the expository or literary texts you discuss in your essay. First, choose the language from the text that best proves the point you are making. Next, beyond just including quotations you choose, work to add your commentary that tells readers what you think about it. Use this opportunity to identify and analyze the ambiguities, nuances, and complexities within the texts.
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8. Making It Correct Chapter 10 • Response to Literature
As you edit your draft, pay special attention to the punctuation and capitalization of quotations. Look at these lines from Keats and Donne on Death:
Keats is afraid of death, because to him death means the loss of those things that make his life worth living: “On the shore / of the wide world I stand alone, and think / Till Love and Fame to nothingness do sink.”
Quoted material is enclosed in quotation marks. This quotation is preceded by the introductory tagline beginning Keats is afraid. Introductory taglines are followed by a comma or a colon. The tagline helps create a smooth transition between the writer’s analysis and the quotation that supports his analysis.
Some quotations have a concluding tagline (at the end of the quoted material) or a medial tagline (in the middle of the quotation). With a concluding tagline, replace a period at the end of the quotation with a comma (the comma goes inside the quotation mark), and then add the tagline. If the quotation ends with an exclamation point or question mark, do not change the end punctuation.
If your tagline falls in the middle of a sentence, end the first part of the quotation with a comma inside the quotation marks and place a comma after the tagline.
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9. Grammar Mini-Lesson: Capitalization
Chapter 10 • Response to Literature
Grammar Mini-Lesson: Capitalization
In a quotation, keep the same capitalization that was in the original text. ▪ If the quotation could stand alone as a sentence, the beginning of the
quotation should be capitalized, even though it comes in the middle of
your sentence.
▪ If you quote a line of poetry that begins with a capital letter, retain the
capitalization.
▪ If you quote a fragment that does not include the sentence’s first word,
do not capitalize the first word of the quotation.
Revise each sentence using the correct capitalization and punctuation.
1. In chapter one, the author states “the chef added a secret ingredient.”
2. Amanda rarely liked spinach, says the narrator, and found it bitter.
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10. Publish Your Piece Chapter 10 • Response to Literature
Share your thoughts and ideas in your comparison essay by publishing it. Use this chart to identify a way to publish your comparison essay for the appropriate audience.
Readers of a particular writer
• Sending it to a magazine or online journal
• Submitting it to the author’s Web site
Students at school
• Submitting it to your school newspaper • Posting your piece online and inviting responses
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