RACE
What do the letters in RACE stand for?
Restate the question
Answer all parts of the question
Cite evidence from the text
Explain your answer
Who is speaking in the poem "Mother to Son."
The mother.
The most important information in the text
What is theme?
A message that the author/text is trying to get across
Write your own simile
I am as tall as a gnome
My favorite food is __________________________
What advice is the mother giving to her son in the poem "Mother to Son"?
If life becomes hard, don't give up.
Use me as an example to follow.
You can overcome obstacles in your life.
Name a strategy for identifying the main idea of a text
Look at the first and last sentence
Look at the first and last paragraph
Look for repeating words and ideas
What is the difference between a topic and a theme
A topic is one word, something that the text is about
Theme is a message about the topic
“Awright, folks, we’ve got a spray on the horizon off the port bow,” he announced cheerfully. “For you landlubbers that’s the left side as you face forward, near the front.”
What is the setting of this passage?
A tour boat
Write a transitional phrase you might use when you begin to cite a source.
The author says____; for example________; the text states_____;
Life has been difficult
Crystal's are smooth, shiny; implies the author was not rich, did not have a straight, easy path in life
I remember him driving his horse-drawn wagon into Santa Rosa in the fall when he brought his harvest produce to sell in the town. What a tower of strength seemed to come in that small man huddled on the seat of the giant wagon. One click of his tongue and the horses obeyed, stopped or turned as he wished. He never raised his whip. How unlike today when so much teaching is done with loud words and threatening hands. What is the main idea of this passage?
The character described is strong without being loud or threatening.
Write one topic, and then one theme that could be about the topic
Revenge; Love
Revenge can lead to your ruin; The power of love can conquer all
Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire were intelligent children, and they were charming, and resourceful, and had pleasant facial features, but they were extremely unlucky, and most everything that happened to them was rife with misfortune.
What does rife mean?
Full of; plentiful.
"I can feel myself shrinking right there in front of her. But I can’t bring myself to tell my mother that I think I understand how I made Abuela feel."
What emotions is the speaker feeling? Cite evidence of your answer.
Embarrassment, shame, understanding....
What was the literary movement that Langston Hughes was involved in when he wrote "Mother to Son" and "A Dream Deferred"?
The Harlem Renaissance
If you are interested in stories with happy endings, you would be better off reading some other book. In this book, not only is there no happy ending, there is no happy beginning and very few happy things in the middle.
What is the main idea of this passage?A warning about the story and its sad content.
Name a story that we have read this year, and a theme of that story
Monkey's Paw - Be careful what you wish for
Abuela Invents the Zero - It is important to treat people in your family with respect, or else you may lose respect for yourself
So she looked up, full of curiosity. The face of the strange boy was very grubby. It could hardly have been grubbier if he had first rubbed his hands in the earth, and then had a good cry, and then dried his face with his hands. As a matter of fact, this was very nearly what he had been doing.
What character trait would you use to describe the boy in the passage?
Upset; troubled; unhappy
Why do you need to explain your answer after you cite?
It's not always clear how a citation supports your answer.
It shows that you understand the point you are making.
It helps you to have original ideas in your writing.
The last line of "A Dream Deferred" is Or does it explode?
What could the speaker mean by a dream exploding?
If dreams are deferred for too long, they might disappear.
If people aren't allowed to follow their dreams, it could be dangerous.
Not letting people dream can cause harm to them.
Once you have identified the main idea, what is the most common type of writing you might be asked to do with it?
Think about your favorite book, movie, tv show. What is a theme from the work that you thought about?
I decide!!
I try to explain what happened. “I don’t understand why she’s so upset. She just got lost and wandered around for a while,” I tell them.
What is the point of view of the above passage? How do you know?
First person; "I try to explain" "I tell them"