1. Aim: What is your central idea of “Equal Inheritance” by Leo Tolstoy and how does the author use conflict to develop your central idea?
Do now:
Everyone: think independently about a central idea of this story. Write a complete sentence.

2. Aim: What is your central idea of “Equal Inheritance” by Leo Tolstoy and how does the author use conflict to develop your central idea?
Questions to help you think of a central idea:
What lesson have you learned from this story?
Why do we say the traveler gives good advice?
Do you think this story tells us a kind of truth?
What is the truth?

3. Aim: What is your central idea of “Equal Inheritance” by Leo Tolstoy and how does the author use conflict to develop your central idea?
Part 3 Text-Analysis Response Your Task: Closely read the text of “Equal Inheritance” and write a well- developed, text-based response of two to three paragraphs. In your response, identify a central idea in the text and analyze how the author’s use of one writing strategy (literary element or literary technique or rhetorical device) develops this central idea. Use strong and thorough evidence from the text to support your analysis. Do not simply summarize the text.

4. Aim: What is your central idea of “Equal Inheritance” by Leo Tolstoy and how does the author use conflict to develop your central idea?
Paragraph 1:
In the short story entitled “ “ (write the short story’s title)
by ____________ (write author’s name), the author uses_______________ (a writing
strategy) to develop the central idea that (write the central idea of the this work)______
______________________________________________________________________
This means that ______________________________________________________
(restate central idea in different words).

5. Aim: What is your central idea of “Equal Inheritance” by Leo Tolstoy and how does the author use conflict to develop your central idea?
develop
solution
Problem

6. Aim: What is your central idea of “Equal Inheritance” by Leo Tolstoy and how does the author use conflict to develop your central idea?
Body paragraph:
Conflict (the writing strategy you have chosen) is defined as
______________________________________________________
(give the definition of the literary device.)

7. Aim: What is your central idea of “Equal Inheritance” by Leo Tolstoy and how does the author use conflict to develop your central idea?
The problem in the beginning of the story is “ _____________
_______________________________” [cite specific lines using
quotes to show the beginning of the conflict]. This reveals ____
___________________________________________________
(explain the evidence) This problem of the conflict helps support the
central idea because ________________
(analyze how the conflict help unfolds the central idea.)

8. Aim: What is your central idea of “Equal Inheritance” by Leo Tolstoy and how does the author use conflict to develop your central idea?
Homework:
Keep the page we have done today and we’ll continue tomorrow to complete this response as a test.