4I Responses:

1. 4I Responses: How to answer an open-ended question

2. 4Is • Idea- Introduce the answer to the question • Insert- Weave in evidence • Interpret- Explain and clarify • Insight- What is revealed?

3. IDEA • One sentence answer to the question • Topic sentence of the paragraph • Includes main words of the question

4. Insert • Weave in quoted lines from the story • Always introduce the quotes by showing who is speaking or what is happening in the scene

5. Interpret • Clarify/further explain your evidence • Never just repeat what you wrote in the quote

6. Insight • Conclusion sentence • Make an inference • Pull it all together by stating what is revealed

7. Ways of Approaching Insight: • What is revealed about: • A character, relationship, society, setting, theme, moral, conflict, author’s technique, etc. • Sentence stems for Insight include: • Therefore, In conclusion, Thus, This shows that, This shows how, This reveals how

8. Example • What theme is revealed in the story Pandora? Explain your answer using evidence from the text.

9. Idea • The theme revealed in Pandora is that humans tend to desire what they cannot have.

10. Insert • Although Hermes forbids her to open it, “What was inside that box seemed to her now the very secret of life, which she must look upon or die.”

11. Interpret • Burying the gift in a shackled box only increased her desire for it.

12. Insight • In the end, she is unable to fight her curiosity, showing that temptation is stronger than will-power.

13. Put it together: The theme revealed in Pandora is that people tend to desire what they cannot have. Although Hermes forbids her to open it, “What was inside that box seemed to her now the very secret of life, which she must look upon or die.” Burying the gift in a shackled box only increased her desire for it. In the end, she is unable to fight her curiosity, showing that temptation is stronger than will-power.