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Compare-And-Contrast Essay Frame Poems About Katrina
Compare-And-Contrast Essay Frame Poems About Katrina
Summarize Hurricane Katrina using text details from Hurricane Katrina: Facts, Damage, & Aftermath.
Identify your task: To compare-and-contrast similarities and differences
Focus:between speakers & characters, action & events, and poetic structure and devices in
Texts: After the Hurricane and Watcher
Locate evidence Each main body part must contain cited evidence from the poem (s) to support your analysis of the three focus topics. Ensure you have identified evidence to
support your analysis and be prepared to explain how the selected word, phrase, or example helps us understand, or to create meaning in, the poem.
Main
body
part 2
Subject-by-Subject
Topic-by-topic
That show who the speaker & characters are and their feelings
throughout each poem
Analyze details:
That show who the speaker & characters are and their feelings
throughout the poem
The key events in the poem and the actions taken by the characters in
response to these events
That show the poem is free verse and examples of poetic devices the
poet uses
Watcher
Analyze details:
That show who the speaker & characters are and their feelings
throughout the poem
The key events in the poem and the actions taken by the characters in
response to these events
That show the poem is traditional form and examples of poetic devices
the poet uses
Compare-and-Contrast
Main
body
part 3
Analyze details:
That shoe the key events in the poems and the actions taken by the
characters in response to these events
Discuss ways in which the poem explore similar events or the
speaker/characters take similar actions
Discuss ways in which the poem explore different events or the
speaker/characters take different actions
Analyze details:
That show the structure of the poems and the different poetic
devices the poet uses
Discuss ways in which the structure or use of poetic devices are
similar
Discuss ways in which the structure or use of poetic devices are
different
Conclusion