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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 bulleted outlines below. Cite details from the text over the course of your response that serve as examples and support.
1. Our Town features a glimpse into the simple lives of everyday Americans in the early 1900s but was written by Thornton Wilder in the late 1930s.
2. Thornton Wilder insisted on using few props and stage equipment in his plays in the hopes that the audience would be able to place their own world within the ones he created.
By Thornton Wilder