Description
Completing the SPACECAT worksheet for Walker’s story
Instructions
Review and reread Alice Walker’s story “The Dummy in the Window.”
You may also review the Perusall assignment of it to help with this assignment.
Fill out the SPACECAT worksheet for the story.
Canvas is creating a blank box on page 5 in some cases, so ignore it. Canvas is correctly formatting the actual SPACECAT boxes.
Make sure you write using specific details, so a reader will clearly understand each point you try to make.
For the Choice, Appeals, and Tone, you only need to address 2 qualities for each one.
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S.P.A.C.E.C.A.T. Worksheet
Use this worksheet to evaluate, research, and explore the text
(artifact) you will read or analyze.
Your full name:
Date/s of analysis:
Title or description of the text, speech, or artifact:
Where the text, speech, or artifact can be found:
Date the text, speech, or artifact was created (if known or
published):
Speaker
o Who is the
writer/speaker?
o What do we know about
them?
o What qualities of the
speaker impact the
argument an why?
2
Purpose
o What is the
writer/speaker hoping to
accomplish (if anything)?
o What might they want the
audience to do, feel,
after the speech or
writing?
Audience
o Who is the writer/speaker
trying to reach? How
might we know?
o How might we know if we
are not the intended
audience?
o What might be an
unintended audience, and
how do we determine this?
3
Context
o What time and place did
this speech/text take
place?
o What types of government
or rulers and
institutions oversee the
writer/speaker’s society?
o What are cultural norms
and taboos, and how are
these treated?
o What about history? What
is happening now?
o What is the
writer/speaker’s place in
this society?
Exigence
o What might be the
catalyst for the
speech/text?
o Why now and not in the
past or in the future?
o How do we know?
4
Choices
o In the speech/text, what
stylistic and rhetorical
choices does the
writer/speaker make?
o How does the writer use
diction (word choice),
syntax, long vs short
sentences, punctuation,
vernacular, punctuation,
repetition, and other
literary devices to
create their argument?
Appeals
o How does the
speaker/writer use the
following:
o Logos
o Ethos
o Pathos
5
Tone
o What might be the
speaker/writer’s feelings
and attitude in the
argument?
o What words, phrases,
language, punctuation
might show something,
like esteem, calm,
arrogance,
dismissiveness, and other
feelings and attitudes?
o Does the writer/speaker’s
tone stay consistent
throughout the piece, or
does it change?
o When, where, and why
might it change, and what
might be the purpose of
the changes?
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