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Literary Analysis Skills Building Activities

Enhance vocabulary and critical thinking by allocating, assigning, attaching, and analyzing texts to identify similarities between works of different authors and time periods. Practice making predictions and inferences while exploring figurative language.

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Literary Analysis Skills Building Activities

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  1. Vocabulary  August 19-23

  2. Allocate (verb) • Distribute for a particular purpose • Each _____________ will be allocated one _____________ to use for the entire year.

  3. Assign (verb) • To appoint to a particular job, task or organization • I will assign ____________ because I want you to learn about _____________ .

  4. allocate

  5. assign

  6. August 20 Clear target: • I will use my knowledge of science fiction and figurative language to make predictions about a story as we read.

  7. Attach (verb) • Fasten or join one thing to another • Add one related document to another: attaching a document to an e-mail • Please attach your _________ to the _________ before turning it in.

  8. attach

  9. Author (noun) • (Noun) A person who writes a novel, essay, poem, etc; the composer of a literary work • (Verb) To write, to be the composer of, or to create a design for something • ____________ is my favorite author.

  10. author

  11. Allege (verb) • Claim or assert that someone has done something illegal or wrong, typically without proof • The ____________ alleges that he is not guilty of _______________ .

  12. allege

  13. August 21 clear target: • I will make an inference about the story based on what I know by the end.

  14. Aug. 21 Bellringer • Make up one sentence for each vocabulary word (allocate, assign, attach, author, allege) • Remember, you can use any form of the word you want • Ex: using allegedly instead of allege

  15. AUGUST 22 Clear target • I will identify similarities between two literary works created by different authors in different time periods.

  16. Aug. 22 Bellringer • Write a paragraph-long story that uses all your vocab words in context • Remember, you can use any form of the word you want • Ex: using allegedly instead of allege

  17. August 23 clear target • I will use my knowledge of figurative language to analyze a poem and compare it to a short story with similar themes.

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