Notes for Rikki-Tikki-Tavi Short Response Choose one of the following questions to respond to. Your response should be between 250 and 500 words. Use at least one piece of explicit textual evidence to support your reasoning.
Options:
● Is Rikki-Tikki-Tavi a hero?
● Are Nag and Nagaina unfairly cast as villains?
● How is Darzee’s role in the story important?
Part 1- Brainstorming
Option Question: Focus Character:
What is their role in the story? Are they the protagonist? Antagonist? Are they a foil or stock character?
What is their motivation?
What influences their decisions? What do they value? What are their goals, hopes, dreams? What is their view of the world?
What actions do they take?
Motivation will often impact actions. What are their behaviors? Attitudes? How are these impacted by others? Is there an inner struggle?
What are their traits? What are their strengths? Weaknesses? Flaws? Are their traits positive or negative?
What are their relationships with other

characters? How do they view other characters? How do other characters view them?
How do they develop throughout the story? What events led to the change? If they do not change, why not?
Part 2- Graphic Organizer
Literary Analysis- Body Paragraph Graphic Organizer
Focus Question (Copy and Paste Here):
Topic sentence
Establish the paragraph’s
central focus. (How are you
answering the prompt?)
Transition: Context
Introduce your character and
their role in the story.
Evidence
Provide relevant examples that
prove the topic sentence.
(Remember each source must
be cited.)
Analysis-
Explain the quote. What
inferences are you making?
How does this quote support
your thesis. How does the quote
relate to the poet’s experience?
This is the most important part
of the paragraph.)
Evidence-
Provide relevant examples that
prove the topic sentence.
(Remember each source must
be cited.)

Analysis-
Explain the quote. What
inferences are you making?
How does this quote support
your thesis. How does the quote
relate to the poet’s experience?
This is the most important part
of the paragraph.)
Conclusion- Connect your main idea back
Part 3
Final Paragraph Here (Copy and paste each section above.)

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