Now, it’s time for you to write an analysis. Using the organizer as part of your pre-writing process, you will write a literary analysis paragraph based on one of the following questions: What is the relationship between conflict and theme in The Story of My Life?
What is the relationship between nature and theme in The Story of My Life?
How does Keller use figurative language to reinforce theme in The Story of My Life?
Claim:

Key Evidence: Key Evidence: Key Evidence:

What it Means: What it Means: What it Means:

Your paragraph should use the following format:

sentence 1: thesis statement with claim
sentence 2: evidence that gives one reason why your claim is true
sentence 3: evidence that gives one reason why your claim is true
sentence 4: evidence that gives one reason why your claim is true
sentence 5: concluding sentence that restates your thesis Make sure that your paragraph makes a claim and proves the claim with relevant evidence.
Upload your paragraph and your graphic organizer.

If you think that a blank sheet of paper or a blinking cursor on the computer screen is a scary sight, you are not alone. Many writers, students, and employees find that beginning to write can be intimidating. When faced with a blank page, however, experienced writers remind themselves that writing, like other everyday activities, is a process. Every process, from writing to cooking to bike riding to learning to use a new cell phone will get significantly easier with practice.

Just as you need a recipe, ingredients, and proper tools to cook a delicious meal, you also need a plan, resources, and adequate time to create a good written composition. In other words, writing is a process that requires steps and strategies to accomplish your goals.

These are the five steps in the writing process:

Prewriting

Outlining the structure of ideas

Writing a rough draft

Revising

Editing

Effective writing can be simply described as good ideas that are expressed well and arranged in the proper order. This chapter will give you the chance to work on all these important aspects of writing. Although many more prewriting strategies exist, this chapter covers six: using experience and observations, freewriting, asking questions, brainstorming, mapping, and searching the Internet. Using the strategies in this chapter can help you overcome the fear of the blank page and confidently begin the writing process.

PREWRITING

Prewriting is the stage of the writing process during which you transfer your abstract thoughts into more concrete ideas in ink on paper (or in type on a computer screen). Although prewriting techniques can be helpful in all stages of the writing process, the following four strategies are best used when initially deciding on a topic:

Using experience and observations

Reading

Freewriting

Asking questions

At this stage in the writing process, it is okay if you choose a general topic. Later you will learn more prewriting strategies that will narrow the focus of the topic.

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Explanation:

pretty sure 1.someone's coat was found in the lobby.