
Reading is for me an act of transformation that is magical. Thirst and hunger fade as the words find their place in my remembrance of you. Who might you be? You are here with me. Happiness, felicity, thy name is Gaby. Source of all my bravery, you are my poetry…
Reading, I fear thee not. Fear of reading, Neither cold nor hot, I am reading. I read for my wife, Gabriela de Lourdes León Vargas. I read for my son, Thomas Jerome Baker, Jr. No fear of reading, I am reading…
Amazon Author Page: Thomas Jerome Baker
It is essential to begin by addressing the foundational literary analysis skills that will be used. This pyramid begins where research shows it is most effective, summarizing, and scaffolds up to evaluation.
As with every skill in every unit, do not move up the pyramid until mastery of the previous skills are achieved. The key to this unit is to re-teach these skills often throughout the school-year using more and more complex reading materials.
http://www.pyramidreading.com/literary-analysis-skills-intro.php
Literary Analysis. The claim statement has four parts:
1. Title
2. Author
3. Literary Device
4. Effect of the device
Example: In “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost, the theme is often said to be nonconformity. It is clear, however. that this is not the case. After all, the poem is called, “The Road NOT Taken”.
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What is unique to me is that the poem has much to do with regret over a decision…this is wonderful…it’s great to find ideas like this, thanks
What about “Then took the other, as just as fair” ? Is not the narrator still on the road when we leave him?