For this target, you will read a short story of your choice and analyze it for author's purpose and perspective, using textual evidence to support your analysis.
Whenever you are analyzing a text, you must remember these three elements:
WHAT - what is the author telling the reader both literally and figuratively
HOW - how is the author relaying this message (anecdote, sarcasm, pathos, etc.)
WHY - what is going on in the world at the time of the writing; why does the author feel his or her message is important
TO WHOM - who is the intended audience of the piece; who has the power to make a change if he or she read this piece.
Analyze in detail the development of two or more themes or central ideas over the course of a work of literature, including how they emerge and are shaped and refined by specific details.
Analyze how dynamic characters develop over the course of a text, interact with other characters, and advance the plot or develop the theme.
Analyze and evaluate how an author’s choices concerning how to structure a work of literature, order events within it (e.g., parallel episodes), and manipulate time (e.g., pacing, flashbacks) create such effects as mystery, tension, or surprise.
Analyze how the author creates such effects as suspense or humor through differences in the points of view of the characters and the reader (e.g., created through the use of dramatic irony).
Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what a text says explicitly as well as inferences and interpretations drawn from the text.
Identify two themes of the text, explaining how you came to this conclusion.
Analyze how dynamic characters changed from the beginning of the text, explaining the importance of this change.
Analyze in detail how an author’s choice to manipulate time creates mystery, tension, or suspense.
Analyze how the author’s choice of point-of-view affects the plot of the story. Explain how the story would be different if written in another POV.
Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what a text says explicitly as well as inferences and interpretations drawn from the text.