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Comprehensive English Regents Exam Preparation
Short-Response Questions
Write a well-developed paragraph in which you use ideas from both the short story “The
Lottery” by Shirley Jackson and the poem “First They Came” by Pastor Martin Niemoller to
establish a controlling idea about how point of view influences notions of fairness. Develop
your controlling idea using specific examples, details, and quotations from each passage.
First They Came
by Pastor Martin Niemoller
First they came for the communists,
and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a communist.
Then they came for the trade unionist,
and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a Jew.
Then they came for me,
and there was no one left to speak out for me.
Response format:
Each step will take at least one sentence. Some steps may require more than one sentence to
fully address.
Step one: introduce both works and establish a controlling idea.
Step two: set up text one and the quote.
Step three: quote text one.
Step four: explain quote and connect text one to the controlling idea.
Step five: use a transition and then set up text two and the quote.
Step six: quote text two.
Step seven: explain quote and connect text two to the controlling idea.
Step eight: general statement about the controlling idea. (point of view in this question)