1) Review Your Research
After completing the research step and submitting the form, you should have received an email with your research notes and a few pieces of feedback. Review this email before writing your analysis paragraph. You may also view the sources again:
- Encyclopedia Britannica (username: kippbayview, password: ligers)
- video clip from Disney's Hercules / clip #2
- Encyclopedia Mythica
- Godchecker
- Disney Wiki
2) Draft an Analytical Paragraph
- Open Google Drive.
- Create a new document and title it "My Analysis of the Fates in The Lightning Thief."
- Type an extended analytical paragraph in which you use the information you have learned through research in order to infer meaning in the scene at the end of Chapter 2 of The Lightning Thief. In your paragraph, answer all of the following questions:
- Who and what does Percy see?
- Why is Grover scared?
- What does this mean?
- How do you know?
3) Revise Your Analysis
Reread your analytical paragraph. Then, work to improve your writing by focusing on two revision skills:
- Improve your description of the fates from The Lightning Thief.
- Include a direct quote from the novel in your paragraph.
- Cite the source by adding the author's name (Riordan) and the page number in parentheses after the quoted text.
- example: In The Lightning Thief, Percy said, "Look, I didn't want to be a half-blood" (Riordan 1).
- Add factual information from online sources.
- Paraphrase this information (put it in your own words).
- Do not just copy and paste from the source.
- Cite the source by adding the name of the author or source in parentheses after the paraphrased information.
- example: The fates did not determine the destiny of the gods; they fulfilled what Zeus told them to do (Encyclopedia Britannica).
4) Review Rubric & Criteria for Success
Self-assess your analysis using this scoring rubric to make sure you have meet all criteria for success. (Strive for all 3s!)