Homework Due Next Block: In Journals write a literary analysis of Seuss The Butter

Battle Books.
Prompt: One of our essential questions this unit is: How do the media and literature
shape our view of the world and ourselves? For this response focus on The Butter Battle
Book as an allegory. How did this particular piece of literature, and the fact that it is an
allegory shape /challenge/change your view of the world?
I.

Think first- Big Idea 1. What is this short story an allegory of?
_____________________

2. Create an overarching statement that best describes what Dr. Seuss is

trying to convey with this story?
Details:
3. As you view list the different symbols used in The Butter Battle Book.
After viewing the video, determine the significance/purpose of each symbolic character,
plot addition, setting characteristic, etc.
4. Note the details/ specific elements within this text that helped you know it was an
allegory?
5. Also what details shaped your final new understanding about our world?
6. Finally, think: what do you want to say? How did BBB make shape your thinking
about ____________ (subject of the story).
II. Now Write (use these sentence starters to ensure you stick to PPE format)
POINT: +In authors (genre) (title) he uses ________ (element/ device) to.include
statement about his general purpose: to understand, feel, c/c, connect, etc. Possible
statements below:
____*shape (change or reshape) our view of the world and ourselves
____*to reveal, suggest or communicate something to the reader;
____*to establish comparisons/contrasts between people, places, events and ideas
within the novel;
____*to guide the reader to make a connection between the novel and anything
outside of it (e.g. another text, historical or current events given the novels time
of writing, philosophical ideas, etc.);
____*to create an experience or to evoke a specific emotional response in the
reader for a specific purpose;
____*to reinforce a certain opinion, value, tradition or worldview (i.e. to support it
or show that it is right or good) OR
____*to challenge it (i.e. show where it is wrong, bad or inadequate and needs to be
revised).

PROOF: +The __________ (element/device) that occurs/is revealed when _________ says
....( ).
Explain: +This causes the reader to see that/ understand that .(include immediate
conclusion the reader is to come to
from the literary device/element).
+ By/Through/From.(include explanation of where the specific
irony/characterization occurs in the quote OR
description of the specific setting/plot/point-of-view element that leads to the
conclusion),
+ the author helps/wants/guides/ the reader to .. (explanation of the specific
understanding, feeling, c/c, connection, etc. that
author wants us to make and that you hinted at in the point).

Must mention specific literary device Seuss used to create his allegory (at least one
device)
Include proof please (at least 2 specific places where you back up you point to
textual evidence).
Revise. In revising- sentence combine by deleting sentences and adding phrases
instead (phrases within sentences). Use and label one appositive one verbal and
one prepositional phrase. Label these. Also for verbals: create and label: a gerund,
an infinitive, and a participial phrase