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Close Reading & Analysis: "Like a disconsolate prisoner"

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Prose Analysis: Close Reading & Analysis of a Text

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Stevenson describes Dr. Jekyll as: "like some disconsolate prisoner."

Prompt: Closely analyze how Stevenson's language creates a better understanding of Dr. Jekyll's complex character. Write an analytical paragraph that correctly analyzes the diction, imagery, and figurative language in this excerpt.

Do not move past this bar until you have completed your writing.

Part 2: Watch the following video that uses a student's essay to cocmment on the strengths that this student includes in their close reading and analysis. Keep in mind that this student's analysis is not the only way to approach the text or comment on it; it simply is a strongly argued and analyzed written essay.
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Self-Directed Learning:
Pause the video to jot down analysis that you didn't even think of and why it is a strong analysis, so you learn from the student model. Also identify where you strongly analyzed the text and why it's strong analysis.

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Self-Assessment:
  1. Open up your Written Feedback document and evaluate how you have grown already. Write your evaluative response in the space below and also where you still need to continue to work on improving (writing or analysis).
  2. If you need to add any new feedback that you learned from comparing your work to the student's essay, please type it underneath the correct heading.