Formative extract analysis

• Engels
• Upper Secondary (Key Stage 4)
• GCSE

Goals for today 

Annotate your extract 

Construct a thesis statement with the help of note expansion 

Consider Levi's narrative voice 

Construct a plan for your response using an MPO

Information for introduction and conclusion 

Concepts Literature HL

Concepts to consider in the memoir:

Identity, control, humanity, language and morality 

 

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Literary concepts Literature HL

Literary concepts to consider in the memoir:

Structure, tone, stylistic choices, rhetorical devices

 

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Annotating for understanding 

Annotate on the left of the extract for understanding and purpose. 

1. Key ideas

2. key words

3. Key concepts 

AWL

Note expanding 

• Answer these questions for this extract: 
• Who? 
• When? 
• Where? 
• Why? 

Note expanding 

• Who? Primo Levi 
• When? 1944/1945 or published in 1958 in Italian 
• Where? In chapter three "Initiation" 
• Why? To convey the dehumanisation of the prisoners through stereotyping and resistance through moral courage. 
• Expand this kernel sentence 'employs Steinlauf ' using the answers above. Start your sentence with "when?": 

Note expanding 

Published in 1958 , Primo Levi's memoir If This Is a Man  explores, in an extract from the chapter "Initiation", the dehumanisation of the prisoners through stereotyping, and employs Steinlauf to illustrates resistance through moral courage in deplorable circumstances. 

unembellished 

Precise, analytical and scientific 

Restrained, sober

Ethical

Empathetic 

Stark 

philosophical

Collective and individual 

Levi's tone and style choices

Annotating for technique

Annotate on the right of the extract for techniques. For example

1. tone - diction, word classes etc. 

2. structure & sentence structure 

3. persuasive techniques 

4. Foreign languages 

5. Questions 

6. Other stylistic and literary techniques

Your thesis statement for this guiding question.

Example thesis statement

Levi effectively employs rhetorical techniques and a calm, clinical, yet philosophical tone to convey the importance of resistance through a maintenance of humanity and moral courage. 

The name of the novel is stated

The author is given

The text type is clearly identified without elaboration

When it was produced is stated

where the text appeared in the novel is stated

The content is discussed: what does the text actually say (briefly)

The intended audience/reader is stated (if definable) 

The purpose(s) is stated

The social, cultural and temporal context is addressed 

The thesis: what you find most important about the text (without elaboration) (main idea/main theme)that addresses the guiding question 

The structure of your analysis is stated. How will you will structure your answer. 

Introduction

General statement 

Specific statement(s)

Thesis statement

Thesis statement 

Specific statement(s)

General statement

INTRODUCTION

CONCLUSION

Multiple paragraph outline

Complete your MPO. Add this information to your MPO: 

• Thesis statement
  
• Topic sentences 
  
• Rhetorical and persuasive techniques (literary)
  
• evidence to be used