Monkey’s Paw Addressing the Writing Prompt (Groups)

Prompt Reminder: Identify a central theme or idea of "The Monkey's Paw" and analyze the way events, setting, and character interactions help develop this theme.

Addressing the Prompt…

Part 1

Main ideas: Write down the central theme from “Monkey’s Paw” that we have come up with as a class here below:

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With the charts below, and in your groups decide on supporting details that help reinforce the main ideas. Write down the quotations in full.

Events: (Consider literary device we’ve mentioned and have studied! A theme is all about what the reader can learn, and literary devices are all about enticing the reader, so the two go hand in hand!)

Detail #1 (Include bullet pt. of idea and quotation to reinforce.)

How does it fit? (Summarize difficult language, or connect to the main idea.)

Detail #2 (Include bullet pt. of idea and quotation to reinforce.)

How does it fit? (Summarize difficult language, or connect to the main idea.)

Detail #3 (Include bullet pt. of idea and quotation to reinforce.)

How does it fit? (Summarize difficult language, or connect to the main idea.)

Setting:

Detail #1 (Include bullet pt. of idea and quotation to reinforce.)

How does it fit? (Summarize difficult language, or connect to the main idea.)

Detail #2 (Include bullet pt. of idea and quotation to reinforce.)

How does it fit? (Summarize difficult language, or connect to the main idea.)

Detail #3 (Include bullet pt. of idea and quotation to reinforce.)

How does it fit? (Summarize difficult language, or connect to the main idea.)

Characters/ character interactions:

Detail #1 (Include bullet pt. of idea and quotation to reinforce.)

How does it fit? (Summarize difficult language, or connect to the main idea.)

Detail #2 (Include bullet pt. of idea and quotation to reinforce.)

How does it fit? (Summarize difficult language, or connect to the main idea.)

Detail #3 (Include bullet pt. of idea and quotation to reinforce.)

How does it fit? (Summarize difficult language, or connect to the main idea.)

Class Choices: Write down our class choice of details, with quotations, literary devices (if any) used, and supporting information (CM) below, as modeled by me, the teacher:

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