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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 below bulleted outlines. Cite details from the text over the course of your response that serve as examples and support.
1. Although Crabbe finds his formal education all but useless, he seems to appreciate Mary’s lessons, and he learns a lot from her.
2. The pipes that Crabbe’s father owns contrast in several ways with the pipe that Mary gives Crabbe, and these differences convey important ideas about the meaning of Crabbe’s pipe.
By William Bell