Category: Mentor Text Analysis

In the Poem “In The Time Of pandemic” by Kitty O’Meara , The Author hooks the audience with the sentence “And the people stayed home”. By using this sentence the author grabs the audience attention by creating imagery in the …

“We Are Not Part of the Virus But We Are Part of the Cure.” By Andrew Yang.

Andrew Yang hooked the audience by showing us a scene instead of telling us. He described his scenery in a very detailed way. …

Mentor text: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/02/opinion/sunday/ruth-bader-ginsburgs-advice-for-living.html?smid=url-share

Ruth Bader Ginsburg hooks the reader by using a question in the hook and talking about children who walk up to her. The text incorporates research all throughout the introduction and the body. It uses research to …

Mentor text: The Unexpected Beauty of Co-vid Hair (New Yorker Magazine)

Hook – Elinor Carucci starts off her essay by using a short anecdote of a woman’s reasoning for constantly dying her hair before, why the pandemic has forced her …

A Viral Poem for a Virus Time by Kitty O’Meara

I noticed in A Viral Poem for a Virus Time by Kitty O’Meara tells a story about people in the pandemic. The poem starts off in light hearted mood but …

I noticed in “We Cannot Wait to End Racism” by Eddie Glaude the first paragraph as a hook he mentions George Floyd and Breonna Taylor .George Floyd was killed by a Minneapolis police man named Chauvin over a counterfeit 20 …

Use these Questions to write your Mentor Text Analysis.  You are doing an analysis of its structure (NOT CONTENT).  Write ONE paragraph.

• How does the text HOOK the audience? INTRO.
• Where does the text incorporate research? How does

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