USING EVIDENCE Oh yeah? Prove it

USING EVIDENCE Oh yeah? Prove it

USING EVIDENCE: 1. Share your point 2. Introduce a quotation 3. Cite the quotation 4. Analyze (explain by breaking apart) the quotation 5. Bring it back to your point again

USING EVIDENCE: 1. Share your point **tell us what you think and why it matters** In Voice from the Wall, Ying-ying tries to protect her daughter, Lena, but goes too far, winding up making Lena’s childhood harder due to newfound fear.

USING EVIDENCE: 2. Introduce a quotation **never leave a quote all by itself** 1). For example, “I wiped my eyes” 2). She states, “I wiped my eyes” 3).Later, the author tells us she “wiped my eyes” 4). Later, the author tells us she “wiped [her] eyes” 5). I don’t think so. “I wiped my eyes” 6). Quote 1: “I wiped my eyes”

USING EVIDENCE: 3. Cite the quotation “quote” (author 99). Quotation mark – quote - quotation mark – parenthesis - author & page number - end parenthesis - punctuation

USING EVIDENCE: 2. Introduce a quotation 3. Cite the quotation For example, when trying to keep Lena out of the basement, Ying-ying says a bad man lives there, who “would have planted five babies in [Lena] and then eaten [them] all…” (Tan 103).

USING EVIDENCE: 4. Analyze (explain by breaking apart) the quotation **explain what this quote means and how it relates to your point** Teach your readers something new

USING EVIDENCE: 4. Analyze (explain by breaking apart) the quotation By scaring Lena into thinking about having babies planted in her, Ying-ying ensures that she doesn’t go into the basement. However, she also accidentally makes Lena afraid of others, which we see later in the chapter when a drunk man runs toward Lena and frightens her. She doesn’t know how to protect herself, because her mom has made her so afraid with all her stories about babies, abuse, and murder.

USING EVIDENCE: 5. Bring it back to your point again **make sure it all connects** Because Lena is now afraid of everything, thanks to her mom’s warnings about bad people, she has a tough childhood, which might even make her adult life hard, too.

In Voice from the Wall, Ying-ying tries to protect her daughter, Lena, but goes too far, winding up making Lena’s childhood harder due to newfound fear. For example, when trying to keep Lena out of the basement, Ying-ying says a bad man lives there, who “would have planted five babies in [Lena] and then eaten [them] all…” (Tan 103). By scaring Lena into thinking about having babies planted in her, Ying-ying ensures that she doesn’t go into the basement. However, she also accidentally makes Lena afraid of others, which we see later in the chapter when a drunk man runs toward Lena and frightens her. She doesn’t know how to protect herself, because her mom has made her so afraid with all her stories about babies, abuse, and murder. Because Lena is now afraid of everything, thanks to her mom’s warnings about bad people, she has a tough childhood, full of fear and worry.

YOUR TURN: 1. Share your point 2. Introduce a quotation 3. Cite the quotation 4. Analyze (explain by breaking apart) the quotation 5. Bring it back to your point again

USING EVIDENCE Oh yeah? Prove it