Chart 1: Analyze the FCAP aspects of the text on your own:
Complete the chart, including an analytical assertion on the left and at least 2 pieces of
evidence and explanation per item of analysis.
Analysis by Category
Form: Anthropomorphism is used
Form: The layout of the comic
Form: The author alludes to dinosaur
extinction.
Context: The character is a dinosaur talking
about how mother nature doesn’t really take
care of the life on Earth
Audience: Theorists
Purpose: Provide an alternate perspective
Textual Evidence and Explanation
Evidence: “Rarely consider critically, and it
has all these connotations that are
submitted into our lives and thinking”
Evidence: “Climate change hurts cousin”
Explanation: The dinosaurs are speaking
philosophically and have familial style like
humans
Evidence: Storyboard design
Evidence: Only dialogue
Explanation: The layout is similar to that of a
graphic novel due to the boxes and dialogue
used.
Evidence: “Uncle everybody dies”
Evidence: “The planet won’t know if we all
die tomorrow”
Explanation: This is an allusion to the
dinosaurs being killed by an asteroid, thus
going extinct. Since they went extinct,
Mother Nature never took care of the
dinosaurs.
Evidence: 3 different types of dinosaurs are
shown
Evidence: “The planet won’t know if we all
die tomorrow”
Explanation: One of the dinosaurs is trying
to convince the others that Mother Nature
doesn’t take care of life on Earth. He then
alludes to the dinosaurs dying and Mother
Earth not helping them.
Evidence: “Folks say things like… thats
weird”
Evidence: “I say we adopt some new
metaphors”
Explanation: Theorists think of out of the
box explanations that don’t conform to the
standard beliefs of society.
Evidence: “That's weird you guys”
 about the title of Mother Earth Evidence: “I say we adopt some new
metaphors”
Explanation: The dinosaur is trying to
explain that Mother Earth doesn’t act as a
mother figure so, it’s weird that “Mother
Earth” is the metaphor used to describe the
Earth.

Chart 2: (wait for directions before completing)

Complete the next chart on the same text, writing down insights students share with you that
you did not write above.
Student FCAP (Is the comment Student Insight
related to Form, Context,
Audience or Purpose?)

Thesis: