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Jewell Parker RhodesA modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more. For select classroom titles, we also provide Teaching Guides with discussion and quiz questions to prompt student engagement.
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.
Scaffolded/Short-Answer Essay Questions
Student Prompt: Write a short (1-3 paragraph) response using one of the below bulleted outlines. Cite details from the novel over the course of your response that serve as examples and support.
1. Three-dimensional characters demonstrate a wide variety of traits: both positive and negative qualities, both strengths and weaknesses. Lanesha accomplishes and overcomes so much that she can seem one-dimensionally superhero-like at times, but she also demonstrates faults, weaknesses, and negative traits that show she is a developed character with many sides.
2. At times, TaShon is depicted with imagery that connotes weakness (he is physically smaller than peers; he is harassed by Max; he can’t keep his own dog; his father cut off his extra fingers when he was born). He also tends to react to fear and frustration more impulsively than Lanesha (he cries openly in front of her).
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