You will use the summary of the work you posted last week for the nonfiction brief writing assignment and then move on to the analysis part of the essay. You should have completed the following when you summarized the text last week:

Identify the author’s thesis and purpose
Analyze the structure of the passage by identifying all main ideas
Consult a dictionary or encyclopedia to understand the material that is unfamiliar to you
Make an outline of the work or write a description of it
Write a summary of the work
The Paper is A Raisin in the Sun