Category: Mentor Text Analysis

I watched a video interview “Teens Talk About Mental Health During the Pandemic”, by Common Sense Media. In the first 40 seconds of the interview, they inserted serval clips of each teenager explaining their mental health impacts during COVID. They

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I read the article “We Asian Americans are not part of the virus, but we can become the cure” by Andrew Yang. In his beginning paragraph he opened up his piece by writing about his experience with hate he received

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I watched the video interview ” Asian Women Share Fear of Harassment”, by CNN news. The video hooked the audience by opening up with 3 random asian women walking in chinatown and showing that they are laughing and talking with

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The article i read was, “Floyed’s Death Shows We Cannot Wait To End Racism” by Eddie S. Glaude jr. In the introduction, the author brings attention to the recent death of George Floyed, a black man who was killed under

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The text I analyzed was Professor Wu’s “We Need to Call Out Anti-Asian Racism For What It Is Racism, Period” letter. This letter hooks the audience by getting straight to the point of why she’s writing the letter. She does

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The Letter I read was Professor Wu’s “We Need to Call Out Anti-Asian Racism For What It Is Racism, Period.” This letter hooks the audience by letting people know what she has endured in her childhood because of her cultural background

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The article I read was “30 Photo Essays To Get Inspired” by Fix the photo. The hook they used was the ability to express their point of view through photos. The research that fix the photo uses an unconventional way

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The graphic novel I read was “Home Sick Pilots”written by Caspar Wijingaard, Dan Watters. The hook they used was a line that went “I can’t move” and then a house blowing up at a certain spot. The entirety of a graphic

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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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