Grade 10 Writing Worksheets
Analysis is writing about writing: you make a claim about what a text does, quote your proof, and explain the connection. Claim, quote, explain: the analytical heartbeat.
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What your child will learn: Analytical Writing: Proving What a Text Means
- The TEA paragraph: Topic sentence (your claim) → Evidence (short quote) → Analysis (HOW the quote proves it). Analysis should be twice as long as the quote.
- Integrate quotes into your own sentence: The narrator calls the city 'indifferent,' suggesting...; never plop a quote alone.
- Analyze word choice: WHY 'trudged' instead of 'walked'? Authors choose on purpose; your job is to say what the choice does.
- Avoid summary. Summary says what happens; analysis says why it matters and how it works.
Sample worksheet questions
1. Analyze one famous speech line: what technique makes it memorable?
Answer: Check for: an arguable claim about the text, an integrated quote, analysis that outweighs summary, and attention to word choice.
2. Compare how two ads persuade: what does each want you to feel, and how?
Answer: Check for: an arguable claim about the text, an integrated quote, analysis that outweighs summary, and attention to word choice.
3. Write three topic sentences for an essay about a symbol in a book you know.
Answer: Check for: an arguable claim about the text, an integrated quote, analysis that outweighs summary, and attention to word choice.
4. Analyze a metaphor from any song: quote it, then explain what it does.
Answer: Check for: an arguable claim about the text, an integrated quote, analysis that outweighs summary, and attention to word choice.
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