Writing Topics

In Confetti Girl & Tortilla Sun, the narrators have points of view different from those of their parents. Write an essay analyzing how these differences in points of view create tension in both stories. Remember to use details from both texts to support your ideas.

Identify the task you will complete

• Narrative

• Literary Analysis

• Research Simulation

In Confetti Girl & Tortilla Sun, the narrators have points of view different from those of their parents. Write an essay analyzing how these differences in points of view create tension in both stories. Remember to use details from both texts to support your ideas.

Paraphrase the task, what are you expected to produce?

• Write an essay analyzing how the different points of view created tension in both stories

• Write a story that has tension created due to the different points of view

• Write an essay that explains why you disagree with how tension was created

• Write s story continuing Confetti Girl & Tortilla Sun

Write a continuation of the story of Bahauddin Shah from the story The Seven Keys of Balabad using details from the passage. Describe what you think might happen after Bahauddin Shah climbs out of the Salt Caverns. What obstacles might he face and what actions might he take to over them?

Identify the task you will complete

• Narrative

• Literary Analysis

• Research Simulation

Write a continuation of the story of Bahauddin Shah from the story The Seven Keys of Balabad using details from the passage. Describe what you think might happen after Bahauddin Shah climbs out of the Salt Caverns. What obstacles might he face and what actions might he take to over them?

Paraphrase the task and what the prompt is expecting you produce.

• An essay that describes how Bahauddin Shah overcoming his obstacles revealed a persistent character

• A story that reveals Bahauddin Shah’s downfall in the cavern and describes his actions

• A story that describes the obstacles Bahauddin Shah encounters while climbing out the cavern and his tenacious attitude

• The Seven Keys of Balabad and the cavern that created the external conflict for Bahauddin Shah

In “Trial by Combat” and Summer Ball, the characters have conversations

where a lot goes unsaid. Analyze how these unspoken viewpoints influence the tension within the conversations that are held throughout the passages.

Identify the task you will complete

• Narrative

• Literary Analysis

• Research Simulation

You have read “The Sword of Damocles” and “The Eighteenth Camel.”

Write an essay that describes how a theme in each story is developed.

Use details from both stories to support your response.

Identify the task you will complete

• Narrative

• Literary Analysis

• Research Simulation

Elements of a good paragraph include all of the following except _________.

• -title
• -indent
• -skipped lines
• -main idea and details

A concluding statement is important because....

• -it provides closure to the end of the story

• -it gives information

• -it conveys thoughts and ideas

Both Charles Dickens and James Joyce incorporate dialogue into their passages. Use the evidence you have gathered from both passages to write an essay analyzing how the dialogue in each passage functions to reveal aspects of the characters. You should discuss more than one character from each passage

• Research Simulation

• Narrative Writing

• Literary Analysis

Beginning after paragraph 9, write an alternate ending to the folktale using details about the characters and events from the passage. You may choose to use dialogue in your new ending.

• Research Simulation

• Narrative Writing

• Literary Analysis