Analyzing Sarah's Key

Outcome two refers to the ability to show a higher level thinking of text analysis based off of evidence used to support writing. Papers 1.2 and 1.3 successfully show my progress of knowledgeable text evidence. In 1.2 I had to analyze Sarah’s Key and had to make a claim about it through an historical lens. In this paper, I actually had to take away quotes because an excess of them was diluting the analysis. Taking away quotes, in turn also means that I had to create a more specific conversation between the quotes I already had. Take for example, in my revised draft I write as a set up for text evidence that: In France, as mentioned in the book there is memorial to the victims of the roundup but it does not mention who took the Jews to the camp. As Julia recounts ‘On the black marble, there was no mention that the French police alone had been responsible for running the camp, and for what had happened to the people being the barbed wire.’” (1.2 RD REV 1).
While is a perfectly good introduction of …show more content…
the text, it does not directly relate to my thesis; which states, “Reading Sarah’s Key under a historical lens, proves the fact that history is written by extreme winners and losers while the people in the middle of the spectrum are criticized and often left out of history books, only to be rediscovered by …show more content…
I also took notice that in rough drafts of both of these papers I was misusing MLA citation and removed the comma before the quotation marks in the final drafts and just put a period at the end, unless of course, they were quoted as a block quote. Both essays, 1.3 and 2.1, met outcome two, demonstrated though use of appropriate quote placement and strategic planning to write in a logical order flow in the