Critically Analyze a Mentor Text

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Critically Analyze a Mentor Text 


1. Who is the author and what is the purpose of this message?
  • Author: Jonas Kolker via Ted Talk (Overcoming Anxiety) 
  • Purpose: to shed light on what anxiety is and how it can happen to anyone at any time.  
2. What creative techniques are used to attract and hold audience attention? 
  • Personal story telling. 
  • he uses very specific imagery to help you see his experience through his shoes. 
  • to keep the audience attentive, he uses different tones and breaks for humor. 
  • he uses specific facts and knowledge to help ensure that his audience understands what he is describing. 
3. How might different people interpret this message differently? 
  • Some may see it as different ways to help themselves cope with anxiety while others may take the information and use it to help others struggling with anxiety. 
  • Some may use it as a research format about anxiety. 
4. What lifestyles, values, and points of view are presented? 
  • POV: 9th grade student who experienced anxiety when he was in the 3rd grade. This timeframe shows that anxiety doesn't have age restriction and that it takes a life time of practice to cope with and control. 
  • Lifestyle: average, middle class, white male. Interested in reading, sleeping and video games. 
  • Values: he values his education because he works with his anxiety and does not just shut down. 
5. What is omitted? 
  • there are not a significant amount of examples of Jonas interacting with his peers. 

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