1. With guiding questions
Attacking a prompt
With guiding questions

2. Prompts and Guiding Questions
Remember that prompts are questions that need be answered in a well-structured essay response.
Sometimes, prompts also have guiding questions listed with them.
Don’t panic! These questions are meant to help you.

3. Native American Literature
Guiding Questions: How are the concerns of a population represented in literature? How do authors of such literature employ literary features to further their messages?
These guiding questions will appear with each of the essay prompts.
Let’s talk about how to approach this.

4. Prompts help us clarify and word our thesis statements.
Prompt: Choose two pieces of literature from this unit and discuss how the authors represent the white settlers’ treatment of Native Americans.
Guiding Questions: How are the concerns of a population represented in literature? How do authors of such literature employ literary features to further their messages?
Prompts help us clarify and word our thesis statements.
Guiding questions are little hints . They give us something to think about in general terms.

5. Tear apart the prompt and guiding questions.
Step 1: Tear Apart
Tear apart the prompt and guiding questions.
This is time well spent in a timed situation.

6. Step 1: Tear Apart
Native Americans
Literary Features in Essay
Prompt: Choose two pieces of literature from this unit and discuss how the authors represent the white settlers’ treatment of Native Americans.
Guiding Questions: How are the concerns of a population represented in literature? How do authors of such literature employ literary features to further their messages?
How do white settlers treat Native Americans?
No lit terms in prompt means NONE in assertions!
Bigger Idea: Theme or Message

7. Step 2: Write Thesis
Two Texts
Because “Man From Washington” and “Lullaby” both tell the story of a Native American who suffers, the authors, Welch and Silko, both convey that Native Americans have endured hardships at the hands of the white population.
How white population treat Native Americans
This will be clarified in the assertions.
Bigger Idea: Theme or Message

8. Step 3: Outline Essay What will your two assertions be?
Make sure you can collect evidence that will be easy analyzed. Thus, it must contain literary features.
Echo!
AEA1
James Welch explores the suffering of the Native American population at the hands of white settlers through the story of the speaker.
Because “Man From Washington” and “Lullaby” both tell the story of a Native American who suffers, the authors, Welch and Silko, both convey that Native Americans have endured hardships at the hands of the white population.

9. Practice!
Write a possible thesis statement for Prompt 2.

10. Share!
Please share your thesis statement out loud.

11. An Example from Last Year:
Because both “Lullaby” and “Indian Boarding School: The Runaways” both have protagonists who experience difficulty adapting to a foreign culture, Silko demonstrates that forcing Native American people to adapt to a new culture causes long lasting social problems.
Prompt: Choose two pieces of literature from this unit and discuss how the authors feel about forcing indigenous people to adapt to a new culture.
Guiding Questions: How are the concerns of a population represented in literature? How do authors of such literature employ literary features to further their messages?

12. Practice!
Write a possible thesis statement for Prompt 3.

13. Share!
Please share your thesis statement with a partner.

14. Prompt 3 Because both ___________ and ___________
have protagonists who find solace in the natural world,
the authors _____________ and
___________________ assert that Native
Americans regard nature as a protective and healing
force.
Let’s fill in the blanks.
Where are the “echoes” from the prompt and guiding questions?

15. Practice! Share! Write a possible thesis statement for Prompt 4.
When you are done, please raise your hand for Mrs. Supplee to check.

16. Prompt 4 Thesis Example
Because both “The Pow Wow at the End of the World” and “Indian Boarding School: The Runaways” explore the white settlers’ negative effects on Native Americans, the authors convey the theme that the years of mistreatment by white culture have resulted in Native Americans who view the white culture as a destructive force.
Where are the “echoes” from the prompt and guiding questions?

17. What questions do you have?