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Your Bean Trees essays are due at the end of the week. If you lost the assignment here it is:

Required Post Reading Activity: Essay

Prompt: This novel has asked you to rethink your definition of “family” and “parenthood.” The four main characters—Taylor, Mattie, Estevan, and Esperanza—take on untraditional roles as “parents.” Use quotations to support how each character has shown his/her commitment as a non-traditional “parent.”

Paragraph #1: Introduction

                        Focus of essay using information from the prompt

                        Name of book and author

Paragraph #2: Taylor

                        Explain how this character takes on the role of an untraditional “parent”

                        Quote that exemplifies this character’s role as a “parent.”

                        Analysis: How does this character show commitment to the role of “parent”?

Paragraph #3: Mattie

                        Explain how this character takes on the role of a non-traditional “parent”

                        Quote that exemplifies this character’s role as a “parent.”

                        Analysis: How does this character show commitment to the role of “parent”?

Paragraph #4: Estevan and Esperanza

                        Explain how these characters take on the roles of non-traditional “parents”

                        Quote that exemplifies the characters’ role as “parents.”

                        Analysis: How do these characters show commitment to the role of “parents”?

Paragraph #5: Conclusion

Provide your final interpretation on how well you think the characters lived up to their role as “parents.”

Do not use the pronoun “I”