English 9 Honors
Summer Reading LAT Assessment Prompt:
Choose ONE of the following prompts:
Prompt #1: Choose one character from each text (two texts total) and determine how home affects ones identity.
Prompt #2: Choose one character from each text (two texts total) and determine how ones name affects ones identity.
Each prompt requires that you write about two characters (one per text).
Possible Texts:
The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
Introduction Paragraph
One Body Paragraph
Brief conclusion
Required Pre-Writing
Your definition of identity for this essay: Where you live can impact your identity because both the people one grows up around and the places that they visit can impact who they are.
Your two texts: The Hate U Give and The Namesake
Your potential so what:
Your two subtopics (remember, you are only picking one to write about in your body paragraph):
Home is made up of the people in it and the different places in the community.