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Use these essay questions as writing and critical thinking exercises for all levels of writers, and to build their literary analysis skills by requiring textual references throughout the essay.
Differentiation Suggestion: For English learners or struggling writers, strategies that work well include graphic organizers, sentence frames or starters, group work, or oral responses.
Scaffolded Essay Questions
Student Prompt: Write a short (1-3 paragraph) response using one of the bulleted outlines below. Cite details from the text over the course of your response that serve as examples and support.
1. Explore the significance of nature and the winter setting in Tobias Wolff’s “Hunters in the Snow.”
2. Dirty Realism explores the darker side of human nature in contemporary life, focusing on the mundane lives of average, unheroic people in an unglamourous world.
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