Quote Analysis Chart for AP ELA 11 and ELA 11

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Quote Analysis Chart for AP ELA 11 and ELA 11

Quarter 4

Objective: Students will prepare for their in-class Essay by reading their text with purpose, identifying quotes, and analyzing those quotes for their usefulness to their essays.THESE CHARTS WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED LATE.

Directions: Choose one of the five prompts that are on the back page.This is the prompt to which you will complete your book project at the end of 4thquarter. REMEMBER: If you choose to write an essay--DO NOT write a plot summary. AP--DO NOT write a rhetorical analysis, unless instructed to do so. YOU WILL GET POINTS COUNTED OFF IF YOU WRITE EITHER OF THESE PAPERS, AS THEY ARE NOT WHAT I’M ASKING YOU TO DO.

Choose your prompt from the lists on the last page. Write your prompt here:

You are to read your text for fourthquarter from the book list with this prompt in mind. Focus on this prompt throughout the reading, and when you read a portion of the book that would help you answer the question in an essay, record it using the chart. You are required to have three quotes with analysis for each third of your text.

Title and author of your text: ______

Divide the total number of pages and write down the divisions here:

Example: 100 first 1/3200 second 1/3300 third 1/3 for a 300 page book.

______first 1/3______second 1/3______third 1/3

Please remember to correctly cite the quotes you pull for your chart. A friendly reminder about citation:

Fiction and nonfiction are cited using (author’slastnamepagenumber). Example: (Salinger 19).

Plays are cited using (author’slast name actnumber.scenenumber.linenumber). Example: (Shakespeare 3.1.181).

• Provide the quotation
• Cite the quotation correctly

• Explain the context around your quotation. What is happening in the plot of the text around this quote?
• Analyze and explain how this quote helps answer the question in the prompt

• Provide the quotation
• Cite the quotation correctly

• Explain the context around your quotation. What is happening in the plot of the text around this quote?
• Analyze and explain how this quote helps answer the question in the prompt

• Provide the quotation
• Cite the quotation correctly

• Explain the context around your quotation. What is happening in the plot of the text around this quote?
• Analyze and explain how this quote helps answer the question in the prompt

Choose one of the following possible essay prompts. Write the prompt you’ve chosen in the box on the front sheet.

1. Choose a character from a novel or play who responds in some significant way to justice or injustice. Then write a well-developed essay in which you analyze the character's understanding of justice, the degree to which the character's search or justice is successful, and the significance of this search for the work as a whole. Do not merely summarize the plot.

**What this prompt is asking you to do: Choose how your responds to some important display of wrong-doing (injustice) or right-doing (justice) within your book. You will use this prompt from your character to do the following things in your essay/project: 1. Analyze how your character decides if the action is right (just) or wrong (unjust). 2. How does your character search for what is right (just) or wrong (unjust) throughout your book? 3. What are the significant events that take place as your character searches for what is right (just) or wrong (unjust) within your book.

1. A symbol is an object, action, or event that represents something or that creates a range of associations beyond itself. In literary works a symbol can express an idea, clarify meaning, or enlarge literal meaning. Select a novel or play and, focusing on one symbol, write an essay analyzing how that symbol functions in the work, what it reveals about the characters, and how that symbol impacts the theme of the book. Do not merely summarize the plot.

**What this prompt is asking you to do: Choose a symbol that you can see in your book. You will use this prompt to do the following things in your essay/project: 1. Analyze how the symbol functions in your work (what does your symbol symbolize? Why did the author choose that symbol? etc.) 2. What does this symbol reveal about your characters? 3. How does this symbol impact the theme of the book?

1. In many works of literature, past events can affect, positively or negatively, the present activities, attitudes, or values of a character. Choose a novel or play in which a character must contend with some aspect of the past, either personal or societal. Then write an essay in which you show how the character's relationship to the past contributes to the theme of the book.

**What this prompt is asking you to do: Choose a way that your character has had to face either his/her past, OR the past in the society in which he/she lives in. You will use this prompt to do the following things in your essay/project: Choose three ways in which your character’s relationship to the past contributes to the theme of the book.

1. Many writers use a country setting to establish values within a work of literature. For example, the country may be a place of virtue and peace or one of primitivism and ignorance. Choose a novel or play in which such a setting plays a significant role. Then write an essay in which you analyze how the setting contributes to the theme of the book.

**What this prompt is asking you to do: Analyze the role of setting of your book. You will use this prompt to do the following in your essay/project: Analyze the three ways in which the setting helps determine the theme of the book.

1. A coming-of-age novel, recounts the psychological or moral development of its protagonist from youth to maturity, when this character recognizes his or her place in the world. Select a single pivotal moment in the psychological or moral development of the protagonist. Then write a well-organized essay that analyzes how that single moment shapes the meaning of the work as a whole.

**What this prompt is asking you to do: Choose an important moment in the psychological (mental + emotional) or moral development of the main character in the story. This is when the character realizes that he/she is no longer a child.You will use this prompt to do the following in your essay/project: Analyze the three ways in whichthis development in your character shapes the theme of the book.