1. What Symbols or images are used in the text? Quote from the text.
Story
What Symbols or images are used in the text?
Quote from the text.
What idea do these symbols convey?
How does this relate to the theme?
Quilt of a Country
Quilt
“’Of all the nations in the world, the United States was built in nobody’s image,’ the historian Daniel Boorstin wrote. That’s because it was built of bits and pieces that seem discordant, like the crazy quilts that have been one of its great folk-art forms, velvet and calico and checks and brocades. Out of many, one. That is the ideal.” Lines 4-9
The diversity of America. America is composed of a lot of different pieces.
The quilt speaks to how we are different but still are one.
Once Upon a Time
Grandmother
“For when they began to live happily ever after they were warned, by that wise old witch, the husband’s mother, not to take on anyone off the street.” Lines 58-60
“And the wise old witch, the husband’s mother, paid for the extra bricks…” Lines
The Grandmother (witch) symbolizes the South African government who instigated the separation of Whites and Colored
This shows how it can seem innocent, even necessary to separate ourselves.

2. What Symbols or images are used in the text? Quote from the text.
Story
What Symbols or images are used in the text?
Quote from the text.
What idea do these symbols convey?
How does this relate to the theme?
Gettysburg Address
The Battle of Gettysburg
“Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live.” Lines 4-8
The Battle of Gettysburg symbolizes the carnage that can happen when we are not united.

3. Paragraph 1: Introduction
Catchy Title
Paragraph 1: Introduction
Hook
A short summary
Thesis
Paragraph 2: First Body Paragraph
Topic sentence (what this paragraph will discuss, how it will prove your thesis)
Context for the quote
Who says it?
What’s happening in the text when they say it?
Quote from the text (cited appropriately)
Analysis of the quote: How does it prove your thesis?
Closing sentence (wrap up the paragraph to effectively transition to the next paragraph)
Paragraph 3: Second Body Paragraph
Closing sentence (wrap up the paragraph to effectively transition to the next paragraph
Paragraph 4: Third Body Paragraph
Conclusion:
Recap the 3 points
Rephrase the main argument
Leave the reader thinking

4. Analytical Essay Graphic Organizer Introduction Paragraph
Hook (Engage the Reader)
Introduce the work of literature
The focus of this collection is the individual and society-from the individual's struggle to be a part of a society to a nation's struggle to unite for a common cause.
Thesis
Authors in Quilt of a Country, Once Upon a Time, and The Gettysburg Address use different symbols and images to convey the theme expressed by Kofi Annan, “We may have different religions, different colored skin, but we all belong to one human race.”

5. Body Paragraph(s) Topic Sentence: Context for the quote:
Quote from the text:
Relate your quote back to your thesis:
Closing sentence:

6. Body Paragraph(s) Topic Sentence:
In the story “Quilt of a Country” by Anna Quindlen, the author uses a quilt as a symbol of America and its diversity, of how America is composed of many different disparate parts.
Context for the quote:
Quote from the text:
Relate your quote back to your thesis:
Closing sentence:

7. Body Paragraph(s) Topic Sentence:
In the story “Quilt of a Country” by Anna Quindlen, the author uses a quilt as a symbol of America and its diversity, of how America is composed of many different disparate parts.
Context for the quote:
Anna Quindlen starts off her essay explaining how America was founded and remains different than other countries founded previously.
Quote from the text:
Relate your quote back to your thesis:
Closing sentence:

8. Body Paragraph(s) Topic Sentence:
In the story “Quilt of a Country” by Anna Quindlen, the author uses a quilt as a symbol of America and its diversity, of how America is composed of many different disparate parts.
Context for the quote:
Anna Quindlen starts off her essay explaining how America was founded and remains different than other countries founded previously.
Quote from the text:
“’Of all the nations in the world, the United States was built in nobody’s image,’ the historian Daniel Boorstin wrote. That’s because it was built of bits and pieces that seem discordant, like the crazy quilts that have been one of its great folk-art forms, velvet and calico and checks and brocades. Out of many, one. That is the ideal.” Lines 4-9
Relate your quote back to your thesis:
Closing sentence:

9. Conclusion Recap the 3 points: Rephrase the main argument:
Leave the reader thinking: