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Sample Literature Prompt
In Julia Raleigh’s story “Boating Trip,” Mia has different relationships with her mother, her little sister, and her dog. Explain each relationship using evidence from the text to support your ideas.
Purpose: To explain character relationships
Audience: Testers or teacher
Subject: “Boating Trip” by Julia Raleigh
Type: Response to literature
Sample Literature Response
In the Same Boat
Beginning
The writer names the literature and provides her focus statement. In “Boating Trip,” Julia Raleigh focuses on Mia and her family as they settle into their lake house. From the things they do and say, you can tell that Mia has a different relationship with each member of her family.