Category: Mentor Text Analysis

Mentor Text: Reflections on Love and Family https://storycorps.org/stories/your-heart-is-on-protein-powder-reflections-on-love-and-family/

In the mentor text Reflections on Love and Family, the text hooks the audience on how the Mother and son are energetic and vibrant. You can picture the smiles on their faces

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This original video of “Many Years After: City Tech’s Asian American Stories” by City Tech students themselves talk about effects of COVID-19 and how it affected them, specifically Asian Americans. The structure is clear, and states chronologically, the beginning effects

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The text hooks the audience with bold visuals, like the title “What it really mean to go Vegan” and images of a plant , grabbing attention immediately. It uses research through quotes and

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This informative podcast is the mentor text and the audio hooks the audience by telling the personal story of Norma McCorvey (Jane Roe), which draws listeners in right away. Her struggles with poverty, multiple pregnancies, and her role in a

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My mentor text is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTgkSO1lm6o&t=1s

Wendy Suzuki is a professor of neuroscience. She discusses the benefits of exercise on the brain. In the introduction, she tells the audience that the hippocampus fascinates her. She also talks about her own research

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The audio “A Day in the Life of an Anxious High Schooler” grabs attention by jumping right into the narrator’s thoughts, making it super relatable for anyone who’s felt overwhelmed in school. It doesn’t really use a lot of outside

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In the mentor text “The Satirical Resurgence of Reefer Madness”, it hooks the audience by the music and the way the narrator was narrating.  She uses storytelling about this American girl to humor her audience and these researching clips .

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The interview starts off with the introduction of the 3 girls  being interviewed. 

Throughout the video interview the interviewer included research to back up their claim that Asian hate continues in many different areas, not just in New York. She

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Mentor Text: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5ccbJcqlUo

The audience is hooked in by using absurd sounding quotes to get us invested in the argument the speaker makes. The author also uses her own personal experience as part of the storytelling right after the introduction

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